Fiery Cushman and Eric Schwitzgebel are running a new version of the “Moral Sense Test”, which asks respondents to make moral judgments about hypothetical scenarios. They’re especially hoping to recruit people with philosophy degrees for this test so that they can compare philosophers’ and non-philosophers’ responses.The test should take about 15-20 minutes.Here’s …
THE NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER EXPLORES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE “HUMAN”Final Conference with Leading Scientists and Humanists WHAT: The National Humanities Center will host the third and final conference that explores how modern scientific developments give more insight into what it means to be “human.” The 2008 “The Human & …
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It’s hard to believe, but apparently there is empirical evidence. This points towards a cure: if we can teach conservatives to be less frightened by danger, they might abandon their crazy political views.
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Recently there have been some valuable inititiatives in the philosophy of science in MO.Three philosophers at U of MO – Columbia (Andre Ariew, Andrew Melnik, and Philip Robbins) have organized the first Missouri Philosophy of Science Workshop, which will take place next weekend in Columbia.And some philosophers in St. Louis …
As announced a few weeks ago, I wrote a paper in which I survey the state of the art on computationalism. Thanks a lot to those who suggested topics I should cover. I touched on most of the suggested topics.The paper is due at Philosophy Compass by the end of the month. …
