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SAP Annual Lecture: Death in Our Life
Posted by Lisa Evans in Event, Journal Club, Podcast, Uncategorized on May 16, 2012
The 2012 lecture will be given by Professor Joseph Raz on the topic of Death in Our Life.
Tuesday 22nd May 2012
5pm – 6.30pm, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK
All are welcome to attend the lecture, which will be followed by a drinks reception for Society for Applied Philosophy members. Find out more here.
Previous Lectures
2011: The Global Reach of Human Rights, Professor Amartya Sen
2010: Militant Modern Atheism, Professor Philip Kitcher
2009: Measuring Development, Poverty and Gender Equity, Professor Thomas Pogge
2008: Naturalism, Normativity, and Applied Ethics, Baroness Onora O’Neill
dialectica Essay Prize – Cognitive Penetration
Posted by Lisa Evans in Journal Club, Research, Teaching & Learning on May 3, 2012
The dialectica 2012 essay prize topic has been announced! Submit your article on the topic of Cognitive Penetration before November 1st for your chance to win £1,500!
Cognitive penetration refers to the influence of beliefs, expectations, moods, desires or background theories on the content of perceptual processes or conscious experiences. This phenomenon has been in the forefront of the philosophy of science, the philosophy of perception, and the foundations of cognitive science. Philosophers of science have warned that cognitive penetration might threaten the epistemic role of perception as an objective source of knowledge and have used it to explain radical paradigm shifts. Philosophers of perception have tried to characterize the various ways in which perceptual processes or conscious experiences can be altered by other mental states or activities. Cognitive scientists have exploited this phenomenon as a starting point to motivate claims on the architecture of the human mind, including modularity and plasticity.
We invite submissions on any aspect of this phenomenon. Possible questions include: How is the influence of various mental states on perceptual processes or experiences to be characterized in psychological terms? Are there principled differences between the cognitive penetration of conscious experiences and that of subpersonal perceptual processes? What is the impact (if any) of cognitive penetration on the individuation of mental states? What kinds of cognitive penetration are there? Does cognitive penetration lend support to relativism? How does cognitive penetration relate to the confirmation of scientific theories by experience? Does cognitive penetration undermine (or support) some models of perceptual justification? Does the use of instruments to observe phenomena presuppose any form of cognitive penetration? What sorts of evidence can support or disconfirm claims about cognitive penetration? Could it shed new light on Kuhnian incommensurability?
Please send your submissions in pdf format to Philipp Keller, philipp.keller@unige.ch, by the 1st of November 2012. The author of the winning entry will receive £1500. All papers submitted will be considered submissions to the journal and should not be published or under review elsewhere.
Journal of Applied Philosophy 2011 Article Prize Winner
Posted by Lisa Evans in Journal Club, Research, Teaching & Learning on March 22, 2012
The editors of the Journal of Applied Philosophy are pleased to announce the winner of the 2011 annual article prize. Congratulations to Jakob Elster who was awarded the £1000 prize for his article How Outlandish Can Imaginary Cases Be?
The Journal of Applied Philosophy will continue to award an annual prize of £1000 to the best article published in the year’s volume. The judgement as to the best article will be made by the editors of the journal; the Society for Applied Philosophy annual lecture, published in the journal, will not be eligible for the prize of best article.
Should We Prepare For The End?
Posted by Lisa Evans in Journal Club, Research, Teaching & Learning on November 18, 2011
New Report Calls for Decriminalisation of Assisted Dying In Canada
A report commissioned by the Royal Society of Canada, and published earlier this week in the journal Bioethics, claims that assisted suicide should be legally permitted for competent individuals who make a free and informed decision, while on both a personal and a national level insufficient plans and policies are made for the end of life.
End-of-life decision-making is an issue wrapped in controversy and contradictions for Canadians. The report found that most people want to die at home, but few do; most believe planning for dying is important and should be started while people are healthy, but almost no one does it. And while most Canadians support the decriminalisation of voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, both remain illegal under the Criminal Code of Canada.
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC), a national organisation of distinguished scholars, artists and scientists, believes the time has come for a national debate on end-of-life decision making as assisted dying is a critically important public policy issue, where opinion, practice and the law seem out of alignment.
Read this report for free now!
The Philosophical Quarterly: From past to present
Posted by Lisa Evans in Journal Club, Research, Teaching & Learning, Viewpoint on August 17, 2011
The first issue of The Philosophical Quarterly was published in October 1950. In the sixty years since, the PQ has established itself as one of the world’s leading general philosophy journals. The journal continues to publish across the full spectrum of academic philosophy, and welcomes original research in all areas of philosophy and its history.
The editorial board have recently compiled this virtual issue to produce a representative sample of the last sixty years. Limiting themselves to two articles for each decade, they sought to give readers a taste of the variety of topics discussed in the journal, and the range of philosophical approaches taken to those issues. As the team find every week, when deciding which articles to publish today, the final choice was not easy. Many wonderful articles missed out. They could, of course, have included more, but wanted the virtual issue to be as close as possible to a real issue. The PQ hope that their selection will whet your appetites – encouraging you to search back through the PQ archive and discover hidden riches for yourselves.
The virtual issue opens with the editor’s introduction from the first issue, and with a brief piece by Malcolm Knox.
The Virtual Issue
Front Matter
Volume 1: Issue 1, 1950
A Passage in Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’
T. M. Knox
Volume 1: Issue 1, 1950
Feelings
Gilbert Ryle
Volume 1: Issue 3, 1951
Direct Perception
Norman Malcolm
Volume 3: Issue 13, 1953
Aristotle on the Good: A Formal Sketch
Bernard Williams
Volume 12: Issue 49, 1962
Plato’s “Third Man” Argument (PARM. 132A1-B2): Text and Logic
Gregory Vlastos
Volume 19: Issue 77, 1969
The ideas of Power and Substance in Locke’s Philosophy
Michael R. Ayers
Volume 25: Issue 98, 1975
Common Knowledge
Jane Heal
Volume 28: Issue 111, 1978
Epiphenomenal Qualia
Frank Jackson
Volume 32: Issue 127, 1982
What does a concept script do?
Cora Diamond
Volume 34: Issue 136, 1984
A Furry Tile About Mental Representation
Deborah Brown
Volume 36: Issue 185, 1996
Finkish Dispositions
David Lewis
Volume 47: Issue 187, 1997
How to Reid Moore
John Greco
Volume 52: Issue 209, 2002
Kant’s second thoughts on race
Pauline Kleingeld
Volume 57: Issue 229, 2007
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Dialectica presents a FREE virtual issue!
Posted by Lisa Evans in Journal Club, Research, Teaching & Learning, Viewpoint on August 1, 2011
Founded in 1947, dialectica is the official journal of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP), publishing first-rate articles predominantly in theoretical and systematic philosophy. Although edited in Switzerland with a focus on analytical philosophy undertaken on the continent, dialectica publishes articles from all over the world and has a truly global relevance. It is ranked A on the European Research Index for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation. Click here to view recent submission statistics and here to read some highlights from the journal over the years.
Continuing the work of its founding members, dialectica seeks a better understanding of the mutual support between science and philosophy and promotes that both disciplines need and enjoy in their common search for understanding. In this exciting virtual issue, the editorial team has selected some recent articles to showcase content from dialectica that particularly reflects the journal’s relevance to a US audience. These articles are representative of the many domains in which dialectica publishes, from ontology to epistemology and philosophy of mind or the theory of rationality. dialectica has recently published special issues on vectors, concepts, emotions, colours, and the philosophy of Kit Fine. We are confident that you will find this virtual issue interesting and informative.
Two Defenses of Common-Sense Ontology
Uriah Kriegel
Paderewski Variations
R. Mark Sainsbury
The Model-Theoretic Argument against Quantifying over Everything
Iris Einheuser
Relation-Based Thought, Objectivity and Disagreement
Christopher Peacocke
A Tale of Two Vectors
Marc Lange
On Some Recent Criticisms of the ‘Linguistic’ Approach to Ontology
Matti Eklund
Against Universal Mereological Composition
Crawford Elder
Rationality, Reasoning and Group Agency
Philip Pettit
Towards a Neo-Aristotelian Mereology
Kathrin Koslicki
Response to Kathrin Koslicki
Kit Fine
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Journal Club: The Moral Obligation to Create Children with the Best Chance of the Best Life
Posted by Lisa Evans in Journal Club, Research, Teaching & Learning, Viewpoint on June 29, 2011
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his month the Philosopher’s Eye is inviting discussion on the free article ‘The Moral Obligation to Create Children with the Best Chance of the Best Life’ written by Julian Savulescu and Guy Kahane, and the most cited article of 2010 published in the journal Bioethics.
What are your thoughts on the controversial topic discussed in this article? We invite your comments below…
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According to what we call the Principle of Procreative Beneficence (PB), couples who decide to have a child have a significant moral reason to select the child who, given his or her genetic endowment, can be expected to enjoy the most well-being. In the first part of this paper, we introduce PB, explain its content, grounds, and implications, and defend it against various objections. In the second part, we argue that PB is superior to competing principles of procreative selection such as that of procreative autonomy. In the third part of the paper, we consider the relation between PB and disability. We develop a revisionary account of disability, in which disability is a species of instrumental badness that is context- and person-relative. Although PB instructs us to aim to reduce disability in future children whenever possible, it does not privilege the normal. What matters is not whether future children meet certain biological or statistical norms, but what level of well-being they can be expected to have.
Comments on “Killing, Letting Die and the Morality of Abortion”
Posted by John Lidwell-Durnin in Journal Club, Viewpoint on February 9, 2011
Contemplation of the nature of embryonic life extends far back into our history
This month, the Philosopher’s Eye is inviting discussion on our free article “Killing, Letting Die and the Morality of Abortion”. But for many of us, our position on abortion is not one that we easily submit to philosophical scrutiny. When we question this reluctance, we might find that it rises because our position on abortion is entailed by other ethical commitments; we are first and foremost defenders of a woman’s right to determine the fate of her own body, or the right to life, or perhaps even both at once. It is easier for us to leave the questions specific to abortion largely unexamined, appealing instead to background values.
Anton Tupa’s article fights against this trend, and demands that we consider a question that is currently central to the morality of abortion: this is the question of whether or not upholding that it is morally Read the rest of this entry »
Journal Club: Killing, Letting Die and the Morality of Abortion
Posted by Liam Cooper (Managing Editor) in Journal Club on January 21, 2011
‘The Philosopher’s Eye’ Journal Club will be bringing you top articles for discussion on a regular basis, selected from the prestigious Wiley-Blackwell Philosophy journals. The article will be made free to access for all, and engagement and commentary is encouraged.
This month’s free article is Killing, Letting Die and the Morality of Abortion by Anton Tupa, and was one of the Journal of Applied Philosophy’s most read articles from 2010.
Image: Bill Davenport (2007)
ANTON TUPA
abstract David Boonin, in his A Defense of Abortion, argues that abortions that involve killing the foetus are morally permissible, even if granting for the sake of argument that the foetus has a right to life. His primary argument is an argument by analogy to a ‘trolley case’. I offer two lines of counterargument to his argument by analogy. First, I argue that Boonin’s analogy between his trolley case and a normal unwanted pregnancy does not hold. I revise his trolley case in light of my objections. Second, I argue that Boonin’s arguments for the permissibility of killing, when applied to this revised trolley case — and by extension, typical unwanted pregnancies — do not succeed in justifying killing.
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Journal Club: Read Top Philosophy Articles for Free
Posted by Liam Cooper (Managing Editor) in Journal Club on November 19, 2010
What is Journal Club?
‘The Philosopher’s Eye’ Journal Club will be bringing you top articles for discussion on a regular basis, selected from the prestigious Wiley-Blackwell Philosophy journals. The article will be made free to access for all, and engagement and commentary is encouraged.
This inaugural session of Journal Club opens with a paper from the journal Dialectica, which was nominated one of the ten best papers of 2009 by the Philosophers’ Annual:
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A Tale of Two Vectors
Dialectica
Volume 63, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages: 397–431, Marc Lange
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