• Philosophy Colloquium: Hannah Kim

    Curtin Hall 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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). …

  • Philosophy Colloquium: Antonia Lolordo

    Curtin Hall 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …

  • Philosophy Colloquium: Steven Wall, University of Arizona, and David Sobel, Syracuse University, “Well-being and its Worth”

    Curtin Hall 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …