Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
Reading: 聽Jessica Isserow and Colin Klein 鈥楬ypocrisy and Moral Authority鈥, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12 (2):191-222 (2017) Location: Edgecliffe G03
Title:聽Hypocrisy as Evasion Abstract: Hypocrites attract moral condemnation and are widely thought to lack standing to criticise others. This paper argues against attempts to explain this that appeal to moral…
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
Reading: Crisp, Roger, and Christopher Cowton. 鈥淗ypocrisy and Moral Seriousness.鈥 Location: Edgecliffe G03
Title: Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis Abstract: Modern scientific naturalism arguably tries to ontologically describe or account for the entirety of the natural world using…
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
Reading: ‘Being Good and Being Good-For-Someone: Why Consequentialism Must Be Wrong’ Location: hybrid On this occasion, the paper will be distributed separately. Please email Joel Joseph if you’d like a…
Title:聽The Incomparable Value of the Individual Abstract: Kant believed that every human being should be treated as an end in itself. In the聽Groundwork, Kant explains many of our duties by…
Title: Co-intensional Properties and Running Afoul of Ockham’s Razor Abstract: Hyperintensionalists like myself hold that there are distinct but co-intensional properties. However, intensionalists object that accepting such properties violates Ockham鈥檚…
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
漏 The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013532.