Colloquia

Histories of Charles Darwin’s intellectual development typically prioritize two foundational influences: Charles Lyell’s uniformitarian geology and Thomas Malthus’s competitive population mechanics. This paper reveals a critical yet under examined third influence: David Hume’s naturalization of the mind and religion. Drawing …

The view usually called “normative pluralism” (which I call “NP”) both asserts the existence of multiple distinct oughts and denies the existence of an ought simpliciter. In this paper I endorse conceptual pluralism about the normative broadly construed, underlining the …