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Colloquium: CIan Dorr Title TBA 3-5 pm 138 DeBartolo Hall Reception 5-6 pm 119 Malloy Hall (Philo Lounge) Aaron Wells Dissertation Defense 2-4 pm 107 Malloy Hall APA Pacific Meetings March 28-31 02 01 Philosopher in Print This months “Philosopher in Print” is grad student, Will Smith. His piece titled “Legitimacy in bioethics.

Most of us believe that induction and perception have some normative status that counter-induction and crystal gazing lack: the former are correct, but the latter are not. How are such beliefs about rationality justified? My dissertation examines two skeptical arguments that contend the answer is: they're not. The first skeptical worry centers on circularity.

After a couple of years of acclimatization, I settled in and began to work on my dissertation. I was thinking of doing something on indeterminacy and Quine, but I was also sitting in on a seminar of David Lewis’s on causation. Jonathan Schaffer and Cian Dorr were in the same seminar, and Jonathan and I spent hours arguing about the nature of.

Resolving Builes’s Paradox of Evidential Equivalence (with Cian Dorr and John Hawthorne) TALKS The Logical Structure of Lying in Kant’s Groundwork Carnegie Mellon University, October 2018. Two Notions of Calibrationism Rutgers University, October 2018. University of Southern California, September 2018. Prospects for Prioritarianism.

The principal concern of this dissertation is whether or not a conceptual analysis of our ordinary concept of causation can be provided. In chapters two and three I show that two of the most promising univocal accounts (the counterfactual theories of Hitchcock and Yablo) are subject to numerous counterexamples. In chapter four, I show that Hall's pluralistic theory of causation, according to.

The goal of my dissertation is to give an account of our capacity for a priori knowledge in terms of fundamental features of conceptual thought. In a nutshell, the claim is that a priori knowledge is possible because thinkers are able to recognize the norms that their thinking is subject to. But, as I argue, the contents of our propositional attitudes are themselves individuated in terms of.

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University (2013-14). Edmond J. Safra Graduate Prize Fellowship in Ethics, Harvard University (2011-12). Full scholarship to attend the Workshop on Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of Health Inequalities, Fondation Brocher, Geneva (June 2010).

Research Publications Articles Papers By Mark Bryant Budolfson. by Mark Budolfson. Selected papers. Does the Repugnant Conclusion have important implications for axiology or for public policy?, forthcoming in Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics, Oxford UP (by Mark Budolfson and Dean Spears) Deflationary Responses to the Challenges of Population Ethics for Public Policy, forthcoming in.

In this essay, I argue against the ideas that secular liberalism tends to treat religion only as a matter of freely chosen belief and that the unchosen, habituated nature of much religious experience raises a problem for the defense of speech that violates the sacred. I argue that secular thought and practice should remain very concerned about.

Common Sense as Evidence: Against Revisionary Ontology and Skepticism. Thomas Kelly. Princeton University. 0. How far might philosophy succeed in undermining our ordinary, common sense views about what there is or what we know?