Cross-posted over at In Socrates’ Wake: I just came across this website (via Everyday Philosophy at the Purple Bike Café) that is gradually releasing videos from what appears to be a comprehensive introductory ethics course by Michael Sandel at Harvard. I’ve read Sandel, but I had no idea he was such a gifted lecturer. The [...]
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* The real tragedy of this election is that far too many Americans believe that the other side is not just wrong about the issues, but fundamentally deceived by one of the candidates. This may be the most prominent symptom of an unhealthy democracy. * For a long time now, I’ve taken idea of villains [...]
I haven’t read much of the modern literature on the libertarian view of freedom of the will, but I’m wondering what they say about children. It seems like compatibilists and hard determinists can easily account for most people’s intuition that children are less morally responsible for their actions than adults. The causal pathway to their [...]
I’ve been reading articles from the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society since I was an undergrad. I think in the back of my mind I knew it was in London. So I was looking for possible philosophy talks to go to while I’m over here (for the record, the Fixtures List is incredibly useful for [...]
Almost everyone who reads this blog and has read David Hume knows that I’m not a Humean. At least when it comes to ethics, I trace my leanings back to his arch-rival, Kant. But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t an amazing philosopher, and I was very proud to see that Edinburgh, his hometown, had erected [...]
I wanted to get in on this discussion, started by a draft essay posted at Experimental Philosophy last week, but last week turned out to be pretty busy. The essay documents a survey of philosophers and ethicists as to the ethical behavior of ethicists. There is another sub-issue that one of the co-authors writes about [...]
After my meaning of life course last semester, I have more thoughts than usual about the place of “meaning” in modern philosophy. But what “meaning” is tends not to be too terribly clear. Is it one’s deepest plans, deepest desires, one’s purpose according to a higher being, one’s purpose according to oneself, one’s destiny, or [...]
It occurred to me (and was reported to me) that I might have scared the curds out of too many people with my previous post linking to Jon Cogburn’s experiences in the job market. And it’s true,
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