Kimberley Kessler Ferzan (Virginia): #BelieveWomen and the Presumption of Innocence: Clarifying the Questions for Law and Life
Seminar
In September 2018, Christine Blasey Ford accused Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexually assaulting her when the two were teenagers. Ford’s supporters told us to #BelieveWomen, while Kavanaugh’s supporters invoked the presumption of innocence. My aim in this talk is not to reconcile…
Sergio Tenenbaum: Instrumental virtues and instrumental rationality
Seminar
Most theories of rationality take it for granted that rationality is always a matter of conformity to certain principles, or responding to reasons. I argue that (non-trivial) principles of rationality cannot fully capture the nature of our instrumentally rational powers. A full theory of…
Learning from Buddhist Logic: A Cross-Cultural Workshop on the Philosophy of Logic
Workshop
Learning from Buddhist Logic - A Cross-Cultural Workshop on the Philosophy of Logic Buddhist philosophers have examined the techniques and methodologies of debate and argumentation. They have investigated the logical principles that underlie rational argumentation and reasoning. These…
Patrick Forber (Tufts): Joint agency and the uniquely-human-cooperation hypothesis
Seminar
Abstract: Group action and collective action call for different explanations than individual action. To this end, philosophers invoke some version of joint agency or shared intentionality to both distinguish joint actions from their individual counterparts and explain how they are possible.…
2019 Passmore Lecture - Mark Schroeder: Relationship Pathologies
Lecture
This talk will be about how people – even well-meaning people – can fail to understand one another in ways that are systematically difficult to escape. The systematic lack of understanding in which I am interested is plausibly manifested in the extreme political polarization that we see in the…
Fiona Woollard (Southampton): "What a Mother's Got to Do: formulating a moderate account of maternal duty"
Seminar
What A Mother’s Got to Do: formulating a moderate account of maternal duty. Modern motherhood is hard. While raising children is never going to be easy, I argue that we, as a society, make motherhood harder than it should be by holding mothers to unrealistic and unreasonable standards. We vastly…
Erick Llamas (ANU): "The Realiser-realiser Identity Theory of Mind"
Seminar
In this talk I will present a new kind of identity theory of mind that I call the realiser-realiser identity theory. Roughly put, the view holds that for any mental property M there is a physical property P such that the realiser of M is identical with the realiser of P. I will argue that this…