Proposal deadline extended to March 10th The second of six ESRC-funded workshops exploring issues where the ethics and economics of climate change intersect will be…
Author: Campbell Brown
Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity is a new research centre at the University of Edinburgh. Drawing on Edinburgh’s past success in…
University of Edinburgh, 15-16 October, 2011. Details, including online registration can be found here:http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/events/view/epistemic-expressivism-workshop Speakers include: Matthew Chrisman, Terence Cuneo, Allan Gibbard, Klemens Kappel, Michael Lynch,…
Supervenience-based arguments for moral naturalism have tended to apply only to moral properties, not to relations. One might have thought that they could easily be generalised so…
University of Edinburgh 28-29 June 2009 Speakers: Simon Blackburn, Campbell Brown, Matthew Chrisman, Jonathan Dancy, Jamie Dreier, Graham Hubbs, Kent Hurtig, Elinor Mason, Sean McKeever,…
Sometimes I hear people (well, philosophers) compare the goodness of one thing with the badness of another. They say, for example, the goodness of pleasure…
While we’re having a mini-Mill-fest, I thought I’d try out the following wee argument, which I’ve been thinking about lately. John Stuart Mill [thanks, Dale…
Some philosophers are bold; they defend strong positions with few hedges or caveats. Others are cautious; they defend weak positions with many hedges and caveats.…