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Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: ‘Should political discrimination be unlawful?’

Location: Teams (online only) Title: Kant the Racist? Abstract: This paper examines Kant鈥檚 thoughts on race considering his analysis of teleology. It explains how Kant analysed the development of human races in connection to his account of the development of “germs” and “dispositions” in the human species. It further explains how that theory changed with…

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy Abstract: Marx鈥檚 Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach famously states that 鈥楾he philosophers have thus far merely interpreted the world; the point is to change it.鈥� In this talk, I begin to clear away some obstacles that stand in the way of an appreciation of the…

Location: Edgecliffe G03

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: 鈥淥n Seeking Objective Grounds for Moral Evaluation鈥� Abstract: The paper argues that to do justice to questions of objectivity that arise within and about moral discourse, we must take into account that this discourse is embedded within a somewhat conventionally regimented practice that comprises attempts to guide attitude and action by…

Location: Teams (online only) Title: Disharmony as a Political Vice Abstract: In this presentation, I examine two important concepts, those of harmony and disharmony by drawing on some thoughts including in three areas of African philosophical ideas and understanding. While I take harmony as virtuous or at least valuable or desirable, I take disharmony as…

Location: Teams (online only) Title: Epistemic Dynamics Abstract:聽Epistemic agents are finite and fallible.聽 Our range is limited and some of what we accept is, no doubt, flawed.聽 To achieve our epistemic and practical objectives, we devise methods and practices that foster correction, refinement, and expansion of our current epistemic commitments. Traditional epistemology maintains that epistemic…

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Values as Vectors Abstract: Often, two things seem tied in value, though slightly improving one would not break the tie. How can we model such ‘insensitivity to sweetening’? A leading answer is that overall values, rather than being like precise numbers, must be imprecise, giving rise to a special nontransitive value…

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: 鈥淪uperspreading the Word鈥�. Abstract: Quasi-realists are expressivists who say much of what realists say. To avoid making their view indistinguishable from realism, however, they usually stop short of saying everything realists say. Many realists therefore think that something important is missing from quasi-realism. I will argue that quasi-realists can undermine this…

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Humorlessness and Moral Recognition Abstract: We鈥檙e often quick to point fingers at people who fail to find humor in themselves. And our accusations have a moral tinge: we decry people for being sanctimonious buzzkills, and command them to聽 鈥榞et over themselves鈥�. But are these moralized reactions justified? And what, if anything,…

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Scientism and Humanities Education Abstract: In this talk I discuss a pedagogical implication of scientism. Because scientism elevates science and derogates what is deemed non-scientific, the arts and humanities become, on such a view, less valuable parts of university curricula. I survey some of the current data on declining study of…