At the Fiction Writing for Philosophers Workshop at Oxford Brookes University in June 2017, Dr. Sara L. Uckelman, the published speculative fiction writer and Lecturer in Logic and Philosophy of...
...Scanlon and Robert Nozick. What topic do you think is underexplored in philosophy? The use of empirical generalizations in political philosophy. Think of Hobbes saying that religious pluralism risks civil...
...is very old, found in 8th-century Buddhist manuscripts, as well as in 11th-century Jewish philosophy. The oldest version I can think of, however, goes back to the Stoic philosopher Epictetus....
This series, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, is aimed at exploring the various ways philosophy can be used to discuss issues of relevance to our society. There are no methodological,...
This series, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, is aimed at exploring the various ways philosophy can be used to discuss issues of relevance to our society. There are no methodological,...
...philosophy department have created a group, Phil Action, dedicated to investigating our university’s investments in the for-profit prison industry. Although working for divestment is time-consuming, so far our tasks have...
APA Awards Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame Winner of the 2016 Quinn Prize University of Missouri–Kansas City’s Philosophy in Prison program Winner of the 2016 APA/PDC Prize Patrick Tomlin,...
Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He studies the nature of evolutionary theory, the relationship between science and philosophy, and...
...Status of Women, Teaching Philosophy, and Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy, and the Pacific Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy Speakers: Stephen Esquith (Michigan State University), Christian Hoeckley (Westmont...
...an institutionalized, normative discipline, but rather a ‘moment’ of replacing-displacing the relation (often taken for granted) between philosophy and non-philosophy, late twentieth century French philosophy exemplifies well the direction that...
