The Mind, Brain, & Behavior Graduate Student Steering Committee presents an interdisciplinary conversation between Jesse Snedeker (Harvard Psychology), Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard Linguistics), Gina Kuperberg (Tufts Psychology), and Meredith Rowe (Harvard Graduate School of Education) on the subject of the science of language.
Derek Parfit (All Souls College, Oxford) "Can We Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion?: On the Ethics of Population and Lexical Superiority"
More than thirty years ago, in Reasons and Persons, Parfit sketched out his mere addition paradox, which involved a seemingly repugnant conclusion: that compared with the existence of many people who would all have some very high quality of life, there could be some much larger number of people whose existence would be better, even though these people would all have lives that were barely worth living. This Thursday, Parfit...
Keynote Speaker: Robert Stalnaker, Lawrence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
We invite submissions from graduate students for a conference hosted by the Philosophy Departments at Harvard University and MIT to be held on April 18th, 2015 at Harvard University. Papers from all areas of philosophy are welcome, and we especially encourage authors from underrepresented groups in philosophy to submit.
The deadline for submission of papers is January 16th...
