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Profs. Boyle, Nadelhoffer, and Nunan to present at Pacific Division APA Meeting

Profs. Deborah Boyle, Thomas Nadelhoffer, and Richard Nunan will be presenting at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting this week.

Prof. Deborah Boyle will be providing the commentary for the invited symposium, The Philosophy of Mary Astell.

Prof. Thomas Nadelhoffer will be giving a talk as part of the invited symposium, The Philosophy and Psychology of Moral Humility.

Prof. Richard Nunan will chair the symposium of the Society for the Philosophical Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts and present a paper, 12 Monkeys and Observation Equivalence Among Time Travel Films.

Prof. Baker giving a paper at the Association of Private Enterprise Education annual meeting

Prof. Jennifer Baker will be presenting a paper, “Virtue and Civic Liberty: Past Actions and Present Requirements” at the annual meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April 14th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Professor Coseru invited to speak at Marquette University

Professor Coseru will deliver a talk, “A Buddhist View of Cognitive Phenomenology” at Marquette University as part of the “Self-Awareness and Subjectivity in Consciousness: Buddhist and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives” workshop, on Tuesday, April 10, 2014.

Dirty Politics: The Role of Disgust in Political and Moral Judgment

In recent years a great deal of psychological research has highlighted the powerful role emotions play in shaping our attitudes and judgments. Evidence has been found that individuals who are more easily disgusted in everyday life tend to have different moral and political views than those who are less easily disgusted. This research helps shed light on how basic differences in emotion can give rise to differences in our judgement about the social world that surrounds us.

Monday April 7, 2014 6:00 PM Wells Fargo Auditorium (Beatty Center)

Pizarro Lecture

Prof. Baker publishes two new articles

Prof. Jennifer Baker’s two most recent publications have appeared in print.

“Children’s Agency, Interests, and Medical Consent,” HEC Forum, 25 (4):311-324 (2013).

“Virtue Ethics and Practical Guidance,” Social Philosophy and Policy 30 (1-2):297-313 (2013).

Prof. Lesses giving a paper at the Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Prof. Lesses will be presenting his paper, “Socrates the Stoic: Agency & Rational Eros in the Symposium” at the American Philological Association’s Workshop in Ancient Philosophy in Lexington, KY on 3/22/14.

Prof. Nadelhoffer publishes a new book chapter and article

Prof. Thomas Nadelhoffer’s two most recent publications have appeared in print.

The book chapter: Nadelhoffer, T. (2014). “Dualism, Libertarianism, and Scientific Skepticism about Free Will.” In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology: Neuroscience, Free Will, and Responsibility (Vol. 4). MIT Press: 209-216.

The article: Nadelhoffer, T., Shepard, J., Nahmias, E., Sripada, C., & Ross, L. (2014). “The Free Will Inventory: Measuring Beliefs about Agency and Responsibility.” Consciousness and Cognition, Vol. 25: 27-41.

Prof. Nadelhoffer invited to present at Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology

Prof. Thomas Nadelhoffer has been asked to participate in an invited symposium, “Punishment” at the upcoming Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology. He will be giving a talk, Psychopathy and the Problem of Pure Retributivism.

Prof. Baker invited to participate in a seminar on “Experimental Economics”

Associate Professor Jennifer Baker has been invited to a seminar on “Experimental Economics” with economists Bart Wilson and Nobel Prize winning economist Vernon Smith, to take place October 25-27th in Orange, CA

Prof. Lesses presenting at 31st annual SAGP meeting

Prof. Glenn Lesses will be presenting his paper, “Socrates the Stoic: Moral Psychology in Plato’s Symposium,” at the 31st annual meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York, October 11-13.

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