End Times archive

Here he discusses Schopenhauer's debts to Kant, his Darwinian account of science, his account of 'will', his approach to art, the sublime, Heidegger's magic realism, Nietzsche's debts to Schopenhauer, his theory of art, Heidegger's views about art, and his mysticism. Julian Young Published on: Oct 25, 2017 @ 08:17

Here he discusses Brentano's theory of consciousness, self-representation, the dual relation thesis, why Brentano should not have introduced the soul into his theory, Brentano's legacy for the Austrian wing of Analytic philosophy and his relevance for contemporary discussions of consciousness and AI why he wishes Bolzano was better known, Frege on what words stand for, the mathematical and Kantian roots of his philosophy of language, concept words, assetoric sentences as answers and sentences as structured and unstructured. Mark Textor Published on: Oct 14, 2017 @ 11:47

Here she discusses the relationship between philosophy and cognitive science, brain scanning, freewill, motive internalism, using neuroscience in law, experimental philosophy, sexism in philosophy departments and the future of AI. Adina L. Roskies Published on: Oct 7, 2017 @ 10:36

Here she discusses why there's an interest in the ethics of war, Walzer on war, the ethics of self-defence and the ethics of war, the idea of war as an extension of ordinary life, using force, the role of uncertainty, pre-emptive strikes, war as punishment, just wars by unjust means, the moral status of combatants and non-combatants, justice after war and the role of philosophy in the contemporary world. This one hums... Helen Frowe Published on: Sep 30, 2017 @ 09:34

Here he discusses the philosophical issues of embodiment, globalisation and secularisation, post-secularisation, modernisation and religion, Eucharistic theology, phenomenology of religion, religion and women's bodies, Nietzsche, incarnation in Christian theology, the philosophy of the gaze and embodiment, emancipation as style in the work of Eagelton and , the theology of Eagelton and Žižek and their Marxism. Ola Sigurdson Published on: Sep 24, 2017 @ 11:07

Here he discusses quantum mechanics, what makes it unsatisfactory in many respects, problems of the wave function, continuous vs non-continuous motion, his ontic view of the wave function, protective measurements, the Schrödinger equation, why he thinks God does play dice with the universe, whether causation is an illusion, quantum mechanics and relativism, why he thinks Everett's many worlds interpretation is incompatible with his own approach, consciousness and quantum mechanics, and why Newton was right when he said reality was particles. Shan Gao Published on: Sep 17, 2017 @ 09:17

Here he discusses his approach to compromise, why he thinks we should think about other values rather than get fixated on justice when thinking about politics, why he thinks peace is at least as important as justice, morality and compromise, why he's not a realist or pragmatist, the uses of feasibility, normatively and compromise, public justifiability and justice, different kinds of moral compromise, modus vivendi and peace, stability, respect and community, and winning the Sanders Prize. Fabian Wendt Published on: Sep 9, 2017 @ 08:31

Here he discusses the friendship between Hume and Smith and why their relationship has been so little discussed, their views on friendship itself, the Scottish Enlightenment, the 'Pragmatic Enlightenment', the role of Calvinism in their work, whether Hume was primarily an historian or a philosopher, their political alignments, Smith and Rousseau, Smith and Hume on morality, Hume's influence on The Wealth of Nations, Smith's attitude towards Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religions, and the controversy surrounding Smith's account of Hume's death. Dennis Rasmussen Published on: Sep 2, 2017 @ 08:43

Here he discusses scientific realism and anti-realism, empiricism and his own position - constructive empiricism, his 3-layer model of theory-phenomena-appearance, quantum mechanics, its relationship with empiricism, laws of nature, philosophical issues with materialism, why he's dubious about analytic metaphysics, induction and abduction, theological options, and existentialism. Bas van Fraassen Published on: Aug 27, 2017 @ 21:05

Here he carefully and thoroughly discusses philosophical intuitions about Aristotle's metaphysics, dependence and independence relations in Aristotle, how he links Aristotelian metaphysics to contemporary concerns, its relationship with Quine, ontological priority, Kit Fine's influence, essences and their essences, Aristotle’s hylomorphism and whether his causal-explanatory model of essence and definition is applicable to substance-kinds. You'll get the hang of this if you read on. If Aristotle never left here are some passionately and incisively expressed reasons why we still should think about him. Carve out some time for this one ... Michail Peramatzis Published on: Aug 19, 2017 @ 10:27

Here he discusses the distinction between actual causation and causation, why norms are important in accounts of causation, why he rejects a Humean account of causation, an aside about scientific anti-realism, probabilistic causality and the worries of determinism, Kant's 'means-ends' metaphysics, extended causal models, causal theories in the philosophy of mind using the fallacy of equivocation, counterfactual theories of causation, evolutionary theory as a theory of forces, defaults, typicality and normality, whether Dr Who should consult graphical causal models, probability and credences, and finally Bayes and the 'shooting room' paradox. Rockin'! Christopher Hitchcock Published on: Aug 14, 2017 @ 08:00

Here she discusses the distinction between acts and omissions and doing and allowing, wicked uncles, Frances Kamm's argument for the moral relevance of the distinction between doing and allowing, intrusion, Warren Quinn's arguments for the distinction, substantial facts and presuppositions, Singer's pond case, Unger and Singer on the Donation case and why it links to the pond case, whether her work helps decide which normative theory we adopt, Parfit's non-identity argument and the hired gun, and whether all moral reasons give rise to moral obligations. Fiona Woollard Published on: Aug 5, 2017 @ 09:24