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Trystan Goetze publishes chapter “Hermeneutical Justice for Extremists?”

October 4, 2022

Trystan Goetze, Postdoctoral Fellow of Embedded EthiCS, and coauthor Charlie Crerar published the chapter “Hermeneutical Justice for Extremists?” in The Philosophy of Fanaticism: Epistemic, Affective, and Political Dimensions (Routledge, 2022).

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“When we encounter extremist rhetoric, we often find it dumbfounding, incredible, or straightforwardly unintelligible. For this reason, it can be tempting to dismiss or ignore it, at least...

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New original work written in honor of Christine M. Korsgaard

August 9, 2022

An upcoming publication from Oxford University Press honors the work of Christine M. Korsgaard, Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Philosophy.

Normativity and Agency: Themes from the Philosophy of Christine M. Korsgaard edited by Tamar Schapiro, Kyla Ebels-Duggan, and Sharon Street, engages with topics central to Korsgaard's work including the foundations of morality, the nature of the self, integrity and value, moral responsibility, obligations to non-human animals, and the relations...

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Zoë Johnson King publishes "Deliberation and Moral Motivation"

Zoë Johnson King publishes "Deliberation and Moral Motivation"

July 20, 2022

Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, published her paper "Deliberation and Moral Motivation" in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 17 (Oxford University Press, 2022).

From the publisher: “Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field.”

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New faculty book: Jeffrey McDonough "A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz's Physics and Philosophy"

February 2, 2022

Jeffrey McDonough, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop, recently published a new book titled A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz's Physics and Philosophy (Oxford, 2022). The book “… explores Leibniz's pursuit of optimality in five of his most important works in natural philosophy and shows how his principle of optimality bridges his scientific and philosophical studies.” Read more from Oxford University Press...

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