At the Forefront of Research
Patient Moral Luck / Preston J. Werner
In this paper, I argue for a fundamentally different kind of moral luck, Patient Moral Luck (PML). PML, I argue, entails that morality itself appears to sanction and even obligate actions which, along predictable patterns, involve repeatedly failing to equally consider certain moral patients - and repeatedly the same people - over sustained periods of time, through no fault of their own. I consider how we can minimize or mitigate PML without a radically revisionary normative theory.
Unknowability and infelicity / Eliran Haziza
It is often assumed that unknowability explains infelicity. That is, if it's infelicitous to assert p, and p is unknowable, then that explains the infelicity, given the knowledge norm of assertion. In Iterated Knowledge, Simon Goldstein makes a similar move in arguing for an omega-knowledge norm of assertion. In this paper, I argue against the unknowability assumption, and sketch an alternative for accounting for infelicities.
Departmental Seminar
The Philosophy Department invites you to our Departmental Seminar
March 16 - High school student conference.
March 17 - A lecture by Amir Horovitz (Bar-Ilan University)
April 14 - A lecture by Ziv Chi (Van Leer Institute)