History tells us that poor populations always endure a disproportionate burden of disease and death from infectious diseases. At the very least a universally-accessible free flu vaccination is a presumption that needs rebutting. If no rebuttal is available, the charge …
Category: Philosophy
Hedonism, the Experience Machine, and Virtual Reality
By Roger Crisp In other words, the real objection against hedonism is not the experience machine. What is wrong with hedonism, if anything, is that it leaves out values other than pleasantness. And Nozick could have made that point without …
Oxford Uehiro Centre Goes DefaultVeg
DefaultVeg is an international partnership between The UK Food Plan, CreatureKind and The Better Food Foundation. Each partner shares the goal of changing the way organisations think about and source their food. [4] Poore J, Nemecek T. Reducing food’s environmental …
Lord Ramachandra: The Quintessential Leader
A great example of the Lord’s spirit of sacrifice was the agni-pariksha of mother Sita, towards the end of the yudha kanda in Ramayana. As a great ruler, Rama was extremely concerned about public criticism. He was conscious that His …
Responsibility and Victim-Blaming
But is this the case? It seems mistaken to assume that offering advice to people as to how they might avoid being attacked is the same as asserting that it is up to them to ensure they aren’t attacked, or …
Third of Britons have seriously wished death on someone, poll finds
For several years Alison lay awake at night wishing her husband dead. Trapped in a miserable marriage, her preference was for a straightforward heart attack or massive stroke. But she also fantasised about a car crash or a fishbone getting …
Dustin Stokes: Reply to Commentators
Jonna worries that to attribute epistemic virtue to perceptual expertise itself is a category mistake, since the former is more general than the domain-specific instances of the latter. I’m willing to grant this point, and indeed I later put things …
John Zeimbekis: Malleability or cognitive effects on recognition?
If recognition is cognitively penetrable, then recognition supported by perceptual expertise—as opposed to just any visual recognition—is not an extra symptom of malleability or penetrability of perception. A difference between novices and experts is that experts (when working as experts) …
Jonna Vance: Vicious Perceptual Expertise
Later Stokes writes, “Perceptual expertise is an epistemic virtue” (p. 182). This claim strikes me as a mistake. Perceptual expertise is narrowly domain-specific; virtues are not–whether they’re characterized as traits or faculties (Turri 2017). On a trait-based approach there’s no …
Becko Copenhaver: Comments on Stokes
Becko Copenhaver Washington University, St. Louis I wonder whether Dustin would resist this picture. If he does, it might be for epistemic reasons. Dustin argues convincingly that CP is an intellectual epistemic virtue, and he holds that an “epistemic virtue …