Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Epistemic Vice and Skepticism

On April 13th, 2018, the University of Southampton will host the conference “Epistemic Vice and Forms of Scepticism.” The speakers will be Quassim Cassam, Alison Hills, J. Adam Carter, Aidan McGlynn, and Genia Schönbaumsfeld. For more information, go here

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Evolutionary Debunking of Morality

The latest issue of Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (vol. 98, issue S1, 2017) contains two papers dealing with evolutionary debunking arguments in ethics: Andrew Moore's Debunking Morality: Lessons from the EAAN Literature (here) and Michael Klenk's Can Moral Realists Deflect Defeat Due to Evolutionary Explanations of Morality? (here).

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Conversion and Skepticism

The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies has just published the first volume in the subseries Studies and Texts in Scepticism: D. Ruderman (ed.), Converts of Conviction: Faith and Scepticism in Nineteenth Century European Jewish Society (de Gruyter, 2018). The book is open access and can be found here.