Papers Read in May 2023

Curry, Oliver Scott, Daniel Austin Mullins, and Harvey Whitehouse (2019). Is it good to cooperate? Testing the theory of morality-as-cooperation in 60 societies. Current Anthropology 60 (1): 47-69.

Cushman, Fiery & Young, Liane (2009). The Psychology of Dilemmas and the Philosophy of Morality. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 12 (1):9-24.

O'Connor, Timothy & Franklin, Christopher Evan (2018). Free will. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Wolf, Susan (2012). One thought too many: love, morality, and the ordering of commitment. In Ulrike Heuer & Gerald R. Lang (eds.), Luck, Value, and Commitment: Themes From the Ethics of Bernard Williams. Oxford University Press, Usa.

 

Book Read in April 2023

Rachels, James (1993). The Elements of Moral Philosophy. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill 

Book Read in March 2023

Wolf, Susan (2010). Meaning in Life and Why It Matters. Princeton University Press.

Paper Read in March 2023

James Openshaw (2022) Does singular thought have an epistemic essence?, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.

Book Read in February 2023

 

Haidt, J. (2006). The happiness hypothesis: Finding modern truth in ancient wisdom. Basic books. 

 

Papers Read

 

1. Anderson, Luvell (2015). Racist Humor. Philosophy Compass 10 (8):501-509. 

 

2. Bhogal, Harjit (2020). Humeanism about laws of nature. Philosophy Compass 15 (8):1-10.  

 

3. Bhogal, Harjit & Perry, Zee R. (2021). Humean Nomic Essentialism. Noûs. 

 

4. Carroll, Noël (2014). Ethics and Comic Amusement. British Journal of Aesthetics 54 (2):241-253. 

 

5. Cofnas, N. (2020). A debunking explanation for moral progress. Philosophical Studies, 177(11), 3171-3191. 

 

6. Lee Patrick, and George Robert P. (2014). The wrong of abortion. In Andrew I. Cohen & Christopher Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics. Chichester: Wiley & Sons. 37-51. 

 

7. Little, Margaret Olivia (2014). The Moral Permissibility of Abortion. In Andrew I. Cohen & Christopher Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics. Chichester: Wiley & Sons. 51-62. 

 

8. Morreall, John (2020). The Good, the Bad, and the Funny: An Ethics of Humor. Southern Journal of Philosophy 58 (4):632-647. 

 

9. Nozick, R. (1991). Love's Bond. In Solomon, Robert C., and Kathleen Marie Higgins, eds. The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 

 

10. Sorensen, Roy (2018). Unicorn Atheism. Noûs 52 (2):373-388.

 Papers Read in January 2023

1. Friend, Toby. (2022). On Powers BSAs. The Philosophical Quarterly.

2. Liao, Shen‐yi. (2012). What are centered worlds?. The Philosophical Quarterly, 62(247), 294-316.

3. Iranzo-Ribera, Noelia. (2022). Scientific counterfactuals as make-believe. Synthese, 200(6), 473.

4. Sauchelli, Andrea. (2021). Pretending and disbelieving. Inquiry, 1-14.

5. Wieser, Matthias J., and Tobias Brosch. (2012). Faces in context: A review and systematization of contextual influences on affective face processing. Frontiers in psychology, 3, 471.

Papers Read in December 2022

 

1. Bhogal, H. (2022). What's the Coincidence in Debunking?. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.  

2. Chan, A. (2022). GPT-3 and InstructGPT: technological dystopianism, utopianism, and “Contextual” perspectives in AI ethics and industry. AI and Ethics, 1-12

 

3.  Danaher, J. (2019). The philosophical case for robot friendship. Journal of Posthuman Studies, 3(1), 5-24. 

 

4. Floridi, L., & Chiriatti, M. (2020). GPT-3: Its nature, scope, limits, and consequences. Minds and Machines, 30(4), 681-694. 

 

5. Heathwood, Chris. (2022). Ill-Being for Desire Satisfactionists. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 

 

6. Kimpton-Nye, Samuel (2022). Laws of Nature: Necessary and Contingent. Philosophical Quarterly 72 (4):875-895. 

 

7. Nyholm, Sven (2022). The ethics of humanoid sex robots. In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality (pp. 574-585). Routledge. 

 

8. Prescott, T. J., & Robillard, J. M. (2021). Are friends electric? The benefits and risks of human-robot relationships. Iscience, 24(1), 101993. 

 

9. Sterri, A. B., & Earp, B. D (2021). The Ethics of Sex Robots. In The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics.

Book Read in November 2022  

"Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction" by Susan Blackmore

Papers Read

1. Chakravartty, Anjan (2010). Truth and representation in science: Two inspirations from art. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science:33-50.

2. Gutting, Gary (1982). Scientific realism vs. constructive empiricism: A dialogue. The Monist 65 (3):336 - 349.

 

3. Metzinger, Thomas (2010). The no-self alternative. In Shaun Gallagher (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Self. Oxford University Press.

4. Müller, Vincent C. (2016). Autonomous killer robots are probably good news. In Ezio Di Nucci & Filippo Santonio de Sio (eds.), Drones and responsibility: Legal, philosophical and socio-technical perspectives on the use of remotely controlled weapons. London: Ashgate. pp. 67-81.

5. Nyholm, Sven (2018). The ethics of crashes with self‐driving cars: A roadmap, I. Philosophy Compass 13 (7):e12507.

6. Nyholm, Sven (2018). The ethics of crashes with self‐driving cars: A roadmap, II. Philosophy Compass 13 (7):e12506.

7. Sparrow, Robert (2007). Killer robots. Journal of Applied Philosophy 24 (1):62–77.

 

8. Stolnitz, Jerome (1992). On the cognitive triviality of art. British Journal of Aesthetics 32 (3):191-200.