Scanlon on Libertarianism and Liberty
Thomas Scanlon in the Boston Review on “How Not to Argue for Limited Government and Lower Taxes“
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Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Check out this volume about to be released. Here is Jesse Prinz’ contribution “Is Empathy Necessary for Morality?“
Utilitarians are not nice people
Here’s an article entitled “Goodness has nothing to do with it” in The Economist. Here is Bartels’ and Pizarro’s actual paper published in Cognition.
Being Hume Man
Here’s an article by Elizabeth Radcliffe from TPM on Hume: He makes the astounding declaration that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
The Morality of Freedom 25 Years On
Seeing an announcement for an upcoming conference commemorating the 25th anniversary of Joe Raz‘ The Morality of Freedom nudged me to post recordings of a similar conference held to commemorate the book’s 20th anniversary with no less than Raz himself in attendance. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:
Maggie Boden reviews Pat Churchland’s latest
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
Derek Parfit: On What Matters
Derek Parfit’s latest book On What Matters is about to hit the shelves. I guess this must qualify as a major philosophical event if like me you were taken by the astounding philosophical imagination of Reasons and Persons. Below is a shot of Parfit at his dashing peak taken in Oxford by the late Susan…
Pat Churchland on the source of value
Another video (via David Livingstone Smith) of Pat Churchland plugging her and Paul’s forthcoming book Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality. This talk is part of the The Great Debate conference Can Science Tell Us Right From Wrong?
A Philosophy of Genocide’s Roots
My chum David Livingstone Smith’s latest book (that I have been trailing) has just been reviewed in the New York Times. The subject matter is as timely as ever and is a cracking read accessible for a general audience and an academic audience.
F.H. Bradley
Here is a recently published entry on F.H. Bradley for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. To my mind, Bradley was the most formidable of the British idealists. I treasure my first edition copy of Appearance and Reality.
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