Visit https://www.southernsociety.org/copy-of-annual-meeting-2 for more information.The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held in Mobile, AL from March 31-April 2. SSPP meetings feature concurrent programs in Philosophy and Psychology, as well as plenary sessions jointly sponsored by the Philosophy and Psychology Program Committees. The deadline for all philosophy submissions is September 25, 2021.
The mainly positive experiences of attendees indicate that online conferences are a good alternative to in-person events. But online venues lacked some of the much-desired social environment for networking. We consequently called for the continued development of ways to effectively…
Given its advantages, the goal-contribution account seems superior to the other accounts. Unfortunately, I eventually realized that it also has a bug. In the version I defended in the past (in joint work with Corey and Justin), the goal-contribution account…
(I am grateful to Ben Bramble, Brian Earp, and John Skorupski for advice and discussion.) Is there any reason we might hesitate to accept that benevolence can be impersonal, and that one can act wrongly without wronging anyone in particular?…
Lockdown has trashed businesses and made economies shrivel. But I wonder if its most lasting legacy will be ethical. It has eroded agency. It has made us less moral, less ourselves, and hence more manipulable. By Charles Foster The other…
In 1970, the philosopher Saul Kripke, who has died aged 81, gave three lectures at Princeton University that shook up Anglo-American philosophy. Speaking without notes, he interwove topics in the separate fields of modal logic (concerning necessity and possibility), philosophy…
The open access version can be found on MIT’s website. When thinking about a child learning about the concept of equivalence with a balance scale, there are many things to consider. How does the presence of the balance scale and…
