John Maier (ANU): Epistemic and Circumstantial Modality
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Abstract: It is customary for philosophers to distinguish between epistemic and metaphysical modality. This distinction tends not to be central in linguistic discussions of modality, but a nearby one is: this is the distinction between epistemic and circumstantial (or 'dynamic') modality.…
Paul Livingston (New Mexico), "Phenomenal Concepts and the Problem of Acquaintance"
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Some contemporary discussion about the explanation of consciousness substantially recapitulates a decisive debate about reference, knowledge and justification from an earlier stage of the analytic tradition. In particular, I argue that proponents of a recently popular strategy for accounting…
Dan Nolan (ANU): There's No Justice: Ontological Moral Fictionalism
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Abstract: This paper develops a limited form of moral fictionalism: fictionalism about distinctive moral ontology, such as rights, duties, virtues, vices etc. which is not also fictionalism about who ought to do what, which outcomes are better than others, and so on. This ontological moral…
Tom Campbell (CSU), "Explanation and Prescription in Legal Philosophy"
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This paper explores how far conceptual analysis can provide an appropriate and sufficient methodology for legal philosophy. This is discussed in relation to the current methodological impasse in analytical legal philosophy, broadly within the tradition of H.L.A. Hart and Joseph Raz, and…