Abstract: Gunther Anders’ philosophy of technology, particularly his complex notion of ‘Promethean Shame,’ or technological ressentiment, may be brought to bear on surveillance and questions of AI...

Abstract: There are two observed features of aesthetic judgment which seem distinctive from other kinds of judgment, especially scientific judgment. First, we often do not...

Abstract: This chapter revisits the metaphilosophical critique offered in Charles Mills’ The Racial Contract. My analysis will focus on explicating Mills’ characterization of the “Racial Contract”—and nonideal theory more broadly—as a conceptual bridge. I consider three questions: (a) what is the nature of the domains such a bridge purports to connect (b) what is the function and orientation of the bridge (c) what is the relationship between once isolated domains after a bridge has been built? In answering these questions, I outline several features of the bridge’s...

Abstract: I will argue that objectivity is a normative notion. By this I don’t mean that objectivity has normative qualities such as being valuable or worth striving for. That may be true, but it’s not the claim defended here....

Apologies are a central feature of our moral lives. When we have been wronged, we often hope for nothing more than an apology. And when we are the ones to have wronged someone, we often feel compelled to apologise.

Insofar as moral philosophy has taken up the practice of apology, the focus has been on apologies for grave wrongdoing or historical injustice. In contrast, my topic here are the everyday apologies we give and receive in our moral practice, which include not just grave wrongs but small...

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In Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties, Strawson makes clear that his making central the idea of relativization to a perspective does not rule out adopting a realist attitude towards...

Harvard Department of Philosophy Colloquia Lecture Series

Vincent Descombes

École des hautes études en sciences sociales (...

This talk follows the read-ahead model; the format consists of a brief 20-minute lecture followed by a 60-minute Q&A session. All attendees must register in advance to gain entry. Registered attendees will receive a link to access Prof. Sedgwick’s paper via email along with the talk's Zoom link.

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This talk follows the read-ahead model; the format consists of a brief 20 minute lecture followed by a 60 minute Q&A session. All attendees must register in advance to gain entry. Registered attendees will receive a copy of Prof. Wills’ paper via email several days prior to the event.

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This talk follows the read-ahead model; the format consists of a brief 20-minute lecture followed by a 60-minute Q&A session. All attendees must register in advance to gain entry. Registered attendees will receive a copy of Prof. Orlandi’s paper via email several days prior to the event.  

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 James Owen Weatherall (UC-Irvine) - Infinite Space in Modern Cosmology