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 held at the University of Nottingham on 13-14 April 2016. » …Read more
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 the fields of epistemology, » …Read more
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, » …Read more
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 as to apply to relations as well. » …Read more
University of Edinburgh
28-29 June 2009
Speakers: Simon Blackburn, Campbell Brown, Matthew Chrisman, Jonathan Dancy, Jamie Dreier, Graham Hubbs, Kent Hurtig, » …Read more
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 is less than the badness of pain; » …Read more
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, » …Read more
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. » …Read more