Friday, October 29, 2010

John West's God

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Here I add to my previous post on John West's article in The Intercollegiate Review . At the end of The Origin of Species , Darwin write...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

John West in "The Intercollegiate Review"

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The Fall 2010 issue of The Intercollegiate Review has two articles on the debate over Darwinian conservatism. My article is entitled "...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Plato in China

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Whenever I speak with professors of philosophy, I am often surprised by how many of them embrace a Platonic rationalism in their thinking, p...
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Conference on Science and Virtue, Nov. 4-5

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Peter Augustine Lawler and Marc Guerra are directing a series of conferences on "Science and Virtue." The first conference will be...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Arnhart in China

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Today, I will be travelling to China for 10 days. I will be part of a conference in Beijing on "Evolution and Ethics," which will ...
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Friday, October 08, 2010

Philippa Foot, 1920-2010

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Philippa Foot died a few days ago on her 90th birthday. As I explained in a post that I wrote last spring, I see her arguments for the hypo...

Aristotle's Darwinian Ethics (8): Existential Friendship

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In previous posts, I have suggested that what Aristotle calls "friendship" ( philia ) corresponds to what David Hume, Adam Smith, ...
Friday, October 01, 2010

Aristotle's Darwinian Ethics (7): Friendship & Sympathy

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The longest section of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is devoted to "friendship" ( philia ) (books 8-9). For Aristotle, ...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

Aristotle's Darwinian Ethics (6): Hare on Aristotle's Platonic Religion

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As a proponent of the divine command theory of ethics, John Hare (a professor at Yale University) criticizes my Darwinian ethics for not rec...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

Aristotle's Darwinian Ethics (5): Animal Psychology and Pleasure

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Darwin argues that human beings differ from other animals in degree but not in kind. This is often thought to be a refutation of Aristotelia...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Aristotle's Darwinian Ethics (4): Natural Right and Biology

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One of the most famous--and enigmatic--passages in Aristotle's writings is his account of natural right (or natural justice) in Book 5 o...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Free Will and Dilley's Secrecy

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In Stephen Dilley's APSA conference paper, he writes: This essay proposes that Arnhart's conservatism fails for a more fundamental r...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

The Question of Free Will: Stephen Dilley's Reply

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Recently, I wrote a post on Stephen Dilley's argument that I deny free will and thus endorse a determinism that would make moral respon...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Aristotle's Darwinian Ethics (3): Holloway on Courage and Nobility

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About 15 years ago, I taught my graduate seminar on "Evolution and Political Theory" for the first time. One of the students in th...
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