David M. Gray (MIT): Mooreanism About Personal Identity

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Many contemporary metaphysicians are Mooreans---they claim that philosophical considerations are not epistemically powerful enough to compel us to significantly revise our ordinary, prephilosophical beliefs about what the world is like. Consequently, we should reject any philosophical argument that…

Robert E. Goodin (ANU/Essex): "On Complicity"

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Katia Vavova (Amherst College): Debunking Evolutionary Debunking

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Daniel Singer (Michigan): TBA

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Amandine Catala (LSE): TBA

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Michelle Montague (University of Bristol): TBA

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Susan Wolf (Edna J. Koury Professor, Chapel Hill) "Two Concepts of Rule-Utilitarianism"

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In "Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism," Jack Smart showed decisively that Restricted (or Rule-) Utilitarianism was an unstable moral theory, either collapsing into Extreme (or Act-) Utilitarianism or implicitly constituting "a form of superstitious rule-worship."  In other words, he showed…