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14 December, 2018

Roger Crisp: Pessimism about the Future

Roger Crisp, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Anne's College, University of Oxford Abstract It is widely believed that one of the main reasons we should seek to d

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20 December, 2024

Never eat a Pigeon with a Pumpkin: a model for the emergence and fixation of unsupported beliefs

This work was presented at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2023, and a shortened form of the paper is Chapter 30 in Food Rules and Rituals: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Coo

Type of publication: Other | Sandberg, Anders , & Len Fisher
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06 March, 2020

Mistake is to Myth What Pretense is to Fiction: A Reply to Goodman.

Philosophia 45(3): 1275–1282. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-017-9812-5. Abstract In this reply I defend Kripke’s creationist thesis for mythical objects (Reference and Existence, 2013) against Jeffrey Go). I argue that Goodman has mistaken the basis for when mythical abstracta are created. Contrary to Goodman I show that, as well as how, Kripke’s theory consistently retains the analogy between creation of mythical objects and creation of fictional objects, while also explaining in what way they differ.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn
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21 April, 2016

Jeff McMahan: Against Collective Responsibility

White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford ABSTRACTMany people believe that collectives of certain kinds, such as corporations and states, are entities ca

White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford
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23 September, 2022
Stina Björkholm

Stina Björkholm

My research interests broadly concern evaluative and normative aspects of linguistic communication. I defended my PhD thesis The Duality of Moral Language: On Hybrid Theories in Metaethicsat Stockholm U

PhD, Philosophy
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04 May, 2021

Does Climate Change Policy Depend Importantly on Population Ethics? Deflationary Responses to the Challenges of Population Ethics for Public Policy

I Budolfson, M, McPherson, Tristram & D. Plunkett (eds), Philosophy and Climate Change, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. From the introduction [...] we believe that philosophical work on climat

Type of publication: Chapters | Arrhenius, Gustaf , & M. Budolfson Spears, Dean , & M. Budolfson
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17 September, 2024

Problems for Moral Debunkers: On the Logic and Limits of Empirically Informed Ethics, written by Peter Königs

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism Review of Peter Königs,Problems for Moral Debunkers: On the Logic and Limits of Empirically Informed Ethics. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp.: 9783110750171.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Risberg, Olle
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26 January, 2021

Moral Realism and the Argument from Skepticism

in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism10 (ISSN: 2210-5697). Abstract:A long-standing family of worries about moral realism focuses on its implications for moral epistemology. The underlyi

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tersman, Folke , & Olle Risberg
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31 August, 2018

Daniel Cohnitz: Trust no one? The (social) epistemological consequences of belief in conspiracy theories

Daniel Cohnitz, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Utrecht University. Abstract Conspiracy theorists are typically skeptical about the trustworthiness of central governmental institutions. Some philos

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12 December, 2017

Jennifer Saul: Dogwhistles and Figleaves: Techniques of Racist Linguistic Manipulation

Professor Jennifer Saul, Director of Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield.ABSTRACTUntil recently, it was widely believed that explicit expressions of racism would doom a politic

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