20/06/22: Samuel Scheffler on Partiality, Deference, and Engagement
20/06/22: Samuel Scheffler on Partiality, Deference, and Engagement
The partiality we display, insofar as we form and sustain personal attachments, is not normatively fundamental. It is a ... Read more
27 Jun 2022
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51mins
6/05/22: Michael Della Rocca on Moral Criticism and the Metaphysics of Bluff
6/05/22: Michael Della Rocca on Moral Criticism and the Metaphysics of Bluff
At a climactic—and, indeed, incendiary—moment in Bernard Williams’ classic essay, “Internal and External Reasons,” Willi... Read more
14 Jun 2022
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55mins
30/05/22: Miriam Schoenfield on Deferring to Doubt
30/05/22: Miriam Schoenfield on Deferring to Doubt
When we doubt a belief, we examine how things look from a perspective in which that belief is set aside. Sometimes we ca... Read more
7 Jun 2022
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54mins
23/05/22: Alexander Mourelatos on 'Parmenides of Elea and Xenophanes of Colophon: the Conceptually Deeper Connections'
23/05/22: Alexander Mourelatos on 'Parmenides of Elea and Xenophanes of Colophon: the Conceptually Deeper Connections'
In the interpretation of Parmenides of Elea, there is a certain vulgate, one widely represented in general histories of ... Read more
30 May 2022
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09/05/22: Mazviita Chirimuuta on Disjunctivism and Cartesian Idealisation
09/05/22: Mazviita Chirimuuta on Disjunctivism and Cartesian Idealisation
In this paper I give answers to two apparently unrelated questions and aim to convince you that these different concerns... Read more
16 May 2022
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46mins
25/04/22: Emma Borg on A Defence of Individual Rationality
25/04/22: Emma Borg on A Defence of Individual Rationality
Common-sense (or folk) psychology holds that (generally) we do what we do for the reasons we have. This common-sense app... Read more
2 May 2022
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54mins
21/03/22: Jack Spencer on Intrinsically Desiring the Vague
21/03/22: Jack Spencer on Intrinsically Desiring the Vague
This paper is about whether it is rational to intrinsically desire the vague. A proposition is inconsequential if neithe... Read more
23 Mar 2022
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54mins
07/03/22: Dawn Wilson on Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture
07/03/22: Dawn Wilson on Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture
Photography is highly valued as a recording medium. Traditionally it has been claimed that photography is fundamentally ... Read more
14 Mar 2022
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52mins
21/02/22: Andrew Huddleston on Aesthetic Beautification
21/02/22: Andrew Huddleston on Aesthetic Beautification
Aesthetic beautification is a familiar artistic phenomenon: Even as they face death, heroes and heroines in operas still... Read more
28 Feb 2022
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53mins
31/01/22: Rachel Cristy on Commanders and Scientific Labourers: Nietzsche on the Relationship Between Philosophy and Science
31/01/22: Rachel Cristy on Commanders and Scientific Labourers: Nietzsche on the Relationship Between Philosophy and Science
Nietzsche’s attitude toward science is ambivalent: he remarks approvingly on its rigorous methodology and adventurous sp... Read more
14 Feb 2022
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50mins