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➤ Philosophy talks • Ethics • Epistemology • Moral theories • Feminism • Logic • Aesthetics • Metaphysics • Social power • Scientific reasoning • Knowledge and truth • Empathy • Consent • Responsibility
The "Moral Sciences Club" podcast presents a series of insightful talks delivered by esteemed academics primarily from institutions such as the University of Cambridge, Oxford, and other notable universities. Centered around philosophical discourse, this podcast delves deeply into a variety of topics that intersect with ethics, epistemology, political theory, and metaphysics.
Listeners will encounter a rich exploration of ethical themes, including the dilemmas of economic foreign policy, the nature of collective responsibility, and the moral challenges presented by slurs and derogatory language. The podcast also addresses critical epistemological issues, such as the role of epistemic autonomy, the value of truth, and the implications of epistemic rationality within search engines.
Several episodes shed light on political philosophy, with discussions on transnational feminisms, social power dynamics, and the ethical responsibilities tied to catastrophic risks and future generations. Aesthetic and artistic queries are also examined, probing whether art can engage in lies and how aesthetic properties are perceived and valued.
Notable metaphysical inquiries include the defense of dispositional essentialism, the investigation of representational choices in theoretical formulations, and challenges to standard solutions to time travel paradoxes. The podcast also includes considerations on language and logic, pivotal themes in ancient philosophical traditions like those of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
The contributions offer both classical and contemporary perspectives, fostering an environment where philosophical traditions meet modern analytical methods. There is a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches that draw connections between philosophy and other domains like mathematics, science, and the social sciences.
Overall, the "Moral Sciences Club" podcast is a treasure trove for anyone interested in deep, reflective, and scholarly engagement with a broad array of philosophical issues. Whether dealing with the abstract realm of metaphysics or the practical implications of ethical theory, the episodes provide a platform for rigorous intellectual exploration and debate.
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Episodes:
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'Tu Quoque': on the ethics of inconsistency, double standards and hypocrisy in economic foreign policy
2017-Jan-31
49 minutes
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A Defence of Kantian Epistemic Autonomy
2024-May-20
38 minutes
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A Plea for Dispositional Essentialism
2015-Jan-30
39 minutes
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Abduction: The Glory and Scandal of Philosophy?
2024-Jan-18
47 minutes
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Abductive Immodesty in Mathematics and Morality
2018-Feb-08
35 minutes
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Against Collective Responsibility
2016-Nov-24
45 minutes
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Against Empiricism
2021-Feb-24
53 minutes
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Against Frontloading
2016-Jan-20
47 minutes
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Against high-level features in visual phenomenology
2018-Feb-01
36 minutes
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Against the Standard Solution to the Grandfather Paradox
2018-Nov-01
34 minutes
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Agency and Genius
2019-Nov-12
43 minutes
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Antiporn Feminism Reconceived
2017-Mar-08
44 minutes
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Armchair Knowledge: Some Kantian Reflections
2023-Feb-11
49 minutes
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Artefacts of representational choices
2024-Jan-25
35 minutes
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Beauty and power: response-dependence in aesthetic properties
2016-May-06
50 minutes
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Begging to Differ With Similarity Accounts of Counterfactuals
2015-May-20
46 minutes
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Belief, Affect, and Reliance
2018-Jul-02
48 minutes
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Beyond consequentialization: How to represent moral theories in a canonical form
2017-Nov-02
57 minutes
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Beyond Derogation and Offense: Coarseness
2024-May-22
49 minutes
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Biased Information
2016-Nov-01
45 minutes
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Biting the Bullet in Non-Identity Cases
2016-Jan-27
41 minutes
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Can Art Lie?
2017-Feb-23
42 minutes
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Carnap’s Defence of Abstract Objects
2019-Nov-05
39 minutes
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Catastrophic Risk and the Complaints of Future People
2022-Mar-12
46 minutes
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Choosing between Faith and Heresy
2019-Oct-29
47 minutes
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Choosing for Changing Selves
2018-Oct-11
46 minutes
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Conditional Consent
2019-Mar-14
36 minutes
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De Se Preferences and Epistemic Deference
2017-May-25
42 minutes
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Decolonizing Universalism: Transnational Feminisms and Political Philosophy
2018-May-17
37 minutes
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Defining Social Power
2024-Mar-14
34 minutes
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Degrees of Free Wil
2018-Oct-25
46 minutes
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Delusion and Identity
2020-Dec-03
37 minutes
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Dialectic in Alexander of Aphrodisias' Treatises on Fate and Providence
2017-Mar-15
42 minutes
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Does fictionalism rest on a mistake?
2015-Feb-05
43 minutes
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Doing the most good: moral options and optimisation
2017-Oct-12
48 minutes
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Empathy and Feeling the Emotions of Others
2022-May-23
45 minutes
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Epistemic normativity in Kant’s “Second Analogy”
2017-Nov-16
47 minutes
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Epistemic Norms for Search Engines
2021-Nov-18
45 minutes
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Epistemic rationality and the value of truth
2023-May-08
43 minutes
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Euclid, Plato, and Aristotle on What Geometry is About
2019-Oct-17
37 minutes
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Evidence, Defeat, and Permissible Suspension
2022-Dec-19
40 minutes
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Expanding the Moral Repertoire: Oughts, Ideals, and Appraisals
2016-Feb-03
47 minutes
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Externalism and Exploitability
2018-Nov-15
41 minutes
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Feeling For Others: Is Empathy the Answer to Ethical Problems?
2014-Apr-10
43 minutes
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Fiction and Emotion: The Normative Question
2019-Jan-24
44 minutes
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First chop your logos: Socrates and the sophists on language, logic and moral development
2014-Dec-05
41 minutes
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Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics
2019-Jan-30
28 minutes
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Generality explained
2019-Mar-01
42 minutes
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Getting Rights out of Wrongs
2018-Nov-08
47 minutes
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Ground Functionalism
2018-Oct-18
37 minutes
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How does the brain construct complex thoughts?
2015-Oct-14
47 minutes
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How it Makes a Moral Difference that One is Worse Off than One Would Have Been
2013-Nov-22
41 minutes
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How to be a moral expert
2015-Dec-02
28 minutes
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How to Understand Rule-Constituted Kinds
2020-Feb-11
45 minutes
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Human Individuals and Human Kinds: A Process View
2024-Jan-18
42 minutes
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Humility and Moral Development
2019-Feb-14
30 minutes
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Hypocrisy and Blame
2021-Feb-16
43 minutes
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Indiscernible Universals
2014-Nov-12
26 minutes
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Insinuation, Indirection, and the Conversational Record
2014-Dec-03
41 minutes
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Killing and aggregation
2017-Nov-09
46 minutes
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Knowledge and the Failings of Folk Epistemology
2021-Nov-25
37 minutes
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Linguistic Frameworks and Experience: Old Problems for Neo-Carnapians
2018-Nov-30
44 minutes
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Love, Rationality, and Arbitrariness
2019-May-14
42 minutes
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Meanings as Species
2016-Nov-02
47 minutes
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Nature’s Poetry and Humanity’s Artifice: Cavendish on the Powers of the Imagination
2024-Jan-18
44 minutes
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New and Improvable Lives
2021-May-10
46 minutes
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Normative Explanation and Justification
2019-May-23
42 minutes
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Normative reference magnets
2016-Mar-02
45 minutes
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Norms of Racial Discourse in the Age of Trump
2019-May-07
44 minutes
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Objects and Their Phases
2016-May-11
36 minutes
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Of Toads, Dogs and Men: Agency, Intelligence and Reason in Human and Non-Human Animals
2015-May-06
46 minutes
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On Absolute Units
2021-Oct-25
35 minutes
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On biological individuality
2015-Jan-21
37 minutes
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On Buck Passing: Methodology in the Philosophy of Art
2021-Dec-13
50 minutes
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On public-identity disempowerment
2017-Nov-30
45 minutes
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On Structural Injustice
2017-Oct-26
51 minutes
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Online Public Shaming and the Case for Regulating Social Media Platforms
2024-Mar-14
44 minutes
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Ontic Injustice
2016-Apr-27
40 minutes
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Perceiving Oppression
2022-Dec-05
44 minutes
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Personal Identity, Passions and Hume's 'True Idea of the Human Mind'
2016-Mar-09
41 minutes
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Philosophical Pathologies and the Point of Inquiry
2024-Jan-18
37 minutes
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Plan B Consistency
2023-Jan-31
44 minutes
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Plural Signification and Semantic Paradox
2021-Mar-02
61 minutes
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Political Epistemology and Social Critique
2020-Nov-02
48 minutes
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Political thinking: the flight from solidity
2023-Jun-15
44 minutes
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Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education
2015-Nov-18
24 minutes
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Pragmatism and the No Exit Objection
2016-Feb-17
34 minutes
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Property Versatility
2024-Jan-18
46 minutes
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Punishment v self-defence
2018-Feb-15
48 minutes
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Ramsey’s Cognitivism: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Meaning of Life
2015-Feb-11
42 minutes
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Rationality from a Biological Perspective
2016-Feb-11
23 minutes
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Refugee Discrimination and Offsetting the Costs of Rescue
2021-Mar-18
37 minutes
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Responsibilities and Taking on Responsibility
2019-May-03
49 minutes
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Rethinking Moral Claim Rights
2023-Apr-13
41 minutes
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Rights and Wrongs
2013-Nov-04
49 minutes
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Roasting Ethics
2019-Oct-22
39 minutes
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Ryleing the Irreal: sensory imagining as knowledge of perceiving
2020-Feb-04
41 minutes
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Salience Norms
2015-Nov-04
43 minutes
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Sex and Regret
2017-Nov-23
45 minutes
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Shameful Self-Consciousness
2016-Dec-01
52 minutes
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Should Ontology be Explanatory?
2020-Oct-22
41 minutes
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Skill, Role, and Virtue
2018-Jan-25
38 minutes
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Social Science, Policy and Democracy
2023-Feb-11
49 minutes
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Supervenience and Explanation in Metaethics
2015-Apr-29
33 minutes
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Tempted like Achilles
2021-Oct-28
60 minutes
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The Agency Theory of Causation: Unsound or Incomplete
2015-Feb-25
27 minutes
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The Aptness of Anger
2015-Mar-04
53 minutes
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The Argument from Illusion
2014-Oct-23
35 minutes
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The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences
2024-Mar-14
54 minutes
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The Event of Rarefaction
2017-Oct-19
46 minutes
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The First Person, and its Significance
2019-Feb-22
43 minutes
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The Legacy of Peter Abelard in Twelfth-Century Logic
2020-Dec-03
39 minutes
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The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
2016-Oct-12
48 minutes
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The nature of properties: Pure powers or powerful qualities?
2017-Feb-15
36 minutes
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The ontology of conceptual art: against the idea idea
2015-Feb-18
46 minutes
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The pragmatics and epistemology of narrative
2017-May-18
41 minutes
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The Prizes and Perils of Trusting Others
2017-Feb-15
46 minutes
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The Problem with Nietzsche's Ethics of Affirmation
2016-Oct-21
37 minutes
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The Real Problem with Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
2016-May-18
40 minutes
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The Scientist Qua Scientist Makes No Assertion
2019-Mar-07
41 minutes
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The Singular Ownership Claim
2022-Mar-28
33 minutes
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The Tale of Bella and Creda
2014-Oct-31
35 minutes
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The Theory of Scientific Explanation: An Obituary
2023-Apr-11
44 minutes
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The Zetetic Puzzle
2024-Mar-14
59 minutes
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Thinking Together
2024-Feb-01
37 minutes
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To Blame or to Forgive? Reconciling Punishment and Forgiveness in Criminal Justice
2014-Nov-06
42 minutes
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Transforming Solidarities
2021-Nov-08
59 minutes
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Truth
2017-May-11
47 minutes
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Two Conceptions of Common-Sense Morality
2015-Oct-28
40 minutes
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Unconscious perception reconsidered
2015-Nov-11
62 minutes
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Unmistaken: imaginative perception and illusion
2023-Apr-11
63 minutes
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Value Capture
2021-Nov-10
51 minutes
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Value, Agency and Desire
2014-Oct-21
29 minutes
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Variance Theses in Ontology and Metaethics
2017-Feb-09
42 minutes
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Variation and change in appearances
2017-May-03
49 minutes
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Virtual Reality as Fictional or Real
2022-Dec-05
45 minutes
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Virtue and the Natural Goods: An Aristotelian Perspective
2014-Nov-20
47 minutes
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Was lockdown racist?
2022-May-23
48 minutes
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What Hume Really Thought about Causation
2019-Nov-19
50 minutes
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What is a hobby?
2024-May-02
37 minutes
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What is disability?
2022-Feb-14
46 minutes
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What’s an Epistemic Modal Anyway?
2018-Nov-22
43 minutes
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Why Did the Volcano Erupt? Kant’s Bayesian Theory of Hypotheses
2022-Feb-07
44 minutes
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Why isn't there more progress in philosophy?
2013-May-20
37 minutes
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Why Isn’t (Pure) Epistemic Autonomy of Value?
2024-Jan-18
42 minutes
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You can run, but you cannot hide: social norms and social normativity
2021-Mar-10
43 minutes
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“I Wasn’t Thinking About That!” The Logic of Framing Effects
2022-Feb-03
32 minutes
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