Workshop talk: The Duty to Compensate for Injustice as Applied to Reconstruction by Derek Matravers

Philosopher Derek Matravers from the Open University reads a paper he has written on the question of whether one should restore or simply leave damaged cultural heritage after a conflict has ended. Fr

Larry Temkin, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. The State University of New Jersey. ABSTRACT The goal of this talk is modest. It is simply to help illuminate

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

Risk Analysis, Published online first, doi.org/10.1111/risa.13265 Abstract The precautionary principle (PP) is an influential principle of risk management. It has been widely introduced into environmental

Chandra Kumar, with a PhD in Philosophy, teaches philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at York University in Canada. AbstractWhile crudely and explicitly racist explanations persist in our social

Lorne L. Dawson: Reconceptualizing Lone-Actor Terrorists as Solo Public Mass Murders

Lorne L. Dawson, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Canada. In public and expert judgements of whether an incident of mass violence by a lone actor is an instance of terrorism or simply mass m

Åsa Wikforss: Bad Beliefs and Knowledge Resistance

Research seminar with Åsa Wikforss, professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University and member of the Swedish Academy. Her research involves topics such as the philosophy of language, the

Selling pictures. Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020

This project will place the current discussions concerning AI-generated images in a historical context, comparing it to two previous technological breakthroughs that have affected the use of pictures for commercial purposes. 

The conversational context and conceptual engineering

Conceptual engineering concerns what it is for a concept to be defective and therefor ameliorated or abolished. The goal of this project, however, is to shift the focus to the role of the context, which might help us understand conflicts about the meaning of our words.

Professor Julia Steinbergerresearches and teaches in the interdisciplinary areas of Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology. Her research examines the connections between resource use (energy and