Invitation for open-access symposia

Many would feel relief that we were not alone. The night sky would seem a less scarily empty place, and our position, balanced on this ball of spinning rock, less precarious. Many would be glad, too, that the responsibilities associated…

For what it’s worth, Matteo Colombo and I have just finished a brief introduction to The Computational Theory of Mind for Cambridge Elements, which is now under review and will hopefully help bring more people up to date. First, there…

One very simple way to prioritise fairness in the second phase would allocate vaccines using a lottery procedure. This would ensure equal access to all individuals not included in Phase One, without prioritising any particular group over any other. This…

A man was found to have Huntingdon’s disease (HD). That meant that his children might be affected. He refused to allow his clinicians to notify his daughter (who was pregnant) of the possibility that she might have HD, or be…

[4] Of course, you want to hear more about what counts as an “acceptable determination” of an indeterminate end. So, as an instrumentally rational agent, you should now buy the book; I promise there is more there! Under ETR, the…

Perhaps, then, the more fortunate have an oddly self-interested moral reason to house the homeless (in addition to the moral reasons we have to alleviate suffering). Christians and romantics sometimes see immoral action as staining our souls; we who accept…