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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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 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…
The broad, probably overly ambitious, agenda of the book is to shift scientific and philosophical theories of perception away from one current orthodoxy. The orthodoxy I have in mind is modularity. The alternative I favor is malleability. That, in any…
13-15 Dec 2021 Noto (Italy) New extended submission deadline: September 30th, 2021 Theme: Post-Neuroscience Times for Cognitive Science Circa 2021? Cristina Amoretti (University of Genoa)Giulia Andrighetto (ISTC-CNR Rome)Francesco Bianchini (University of Bologna)Enzo Crupi (University of Turin)Filippo Domaneschi (University of Genoa)Francesco Ferretti (Università…
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…
We’re pleased to introduce our latest symposium discussing “Zombie intuitions”, by Eugen Fischer (University of East Anglia) and Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington), with commentaries by David Chalmers (NYU), Keith Frankish (Sheffield), Michelle Liu (Hertfordshire), and Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh). We thank all of the participants for their contributions! Target Article: Zombie Intuitions…
Alison Botterill can be happy that the book on the suffragettes was at least in a somewhat relevant section (Letters, 16 September). A former colleague once told me how he had given up looking for a book on physics with…
“Recently at Māyāpur an African devotee wanted to imitate Haridāsa Ṭhākura, but after fifteen days he became restless and went away. Do not suddenly try to imitate Haridāsa Ṭhākura. Engage yourself in Kṛṣṇa conscious activities, and gradually you will come…
For this reason, consent is important. Because whatever we do involves risks, getting vaccinated or risking getting COVID, it is preferable to consent to the particular risks for yourself, rather than have others impose them. Most people believe that restrictions…
