Epistemology Seminar: Jessica Brown: Does Moral Ignorance Excuse?
Many hold that ignorance, whether factual or moral, can excuse wrongdoing. However, recently, some have argued that only factual ignorance, but not moral ignorance, excuses...
Many hold that ignorance, whether factual or moral, can excuse wrongdoing. However, recently, some have argued that only factual ignorance, but not moral ignorance, excuses...
Abstract: Van Inwagen (1990) paraphrased sentences about macroscopic inanimate objects into sentences that mention only simples in order to show that the truth of these...
I go through Chalmers’ paper Verbal Disputes and propose an alternative that does not rely on Chalmers’ dubious idea of ‘beliefs about meanings’.
I first say a bit about what metasemantics is and what meta-metasemantics are. I outline various theories that have been proposed. Then in the central...
What will we read and who will speak this semester? We will find out.