A Conversation with Dr. Roeber on his book Political Humility: The Limits of Knowledge in Our Partisan Political Climate
Philosophy Colloquium - TBA November 14 @ 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM Curtin Hall 175 Blake Roeber, University of Notre Dame
Philosophy Colloquium - TBA November 14 @ 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM Curtin Hall 175 Blake Roeber, University of Notre Dame
Marilie Coetsee, Hope College, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
John Proios, University of Chicago Date: March 6th 2026 Location: MIT 361 Talk starts at 4:00 PM What preserves the character of a society? Conversely, what makes one kind of society change into another kind? Plato addresses both of these …
Philosophy As a Way of Life March 12 7:00 PM Merrill Hall 131 We will have a conversation with JoAnne Potter on philosophy as a way of life and how philosophy can help us to live and age with purpose. …
Match 13, Alix Cohen, Notre Dame Title of the talk: Kant’s ethical pluralism Location: CRT 175 Talk starts at 3:30 PM
Nonfiction Is Not (Just) to Be Believed Philosophers of fiction routinely rely on an unexamined contrast class: nonfiction. The dominant assumption is that nonfiction is discourse meant to be believed (while fiction is discourse meant to be imagined or make-believed). …
Antonia Lolordo, University of Virginia Personal Identity and Bodily Ownership in Locke Lolordo argues that Locke faces a problem about bodily ownership and that he has an account of bodily ownership on which there is a strong parallel between bodily …
Steven Wall, University of Arizona, and David Sobel, Syracuse University Well-being and its Worth Philosophical discussions of well-being aspire to a certain measure of comprehensiveness. Imagine someone saying that well-being is strictly a function of the pleasure and pain in our …
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 …