This project examines how the plausibility of free will theories depends on implicit methodological and metaethical assumptions. Through developing new arguments about how such assumptions affect the ...

SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies is delighted host Dr Brett Parris to discuss the topic, 'Yogic metaethics: what it is and why it matters'. Some yogic traditions mesh well with universal human rights ...

An advanced course focusing on particular topics in the history of philosophy. Special emphasis will be placed on ideas and disputes which were historically influential and continue to be ...

Born in Leeds, Joe finished his Spanish degree in 2018 before becoming an English teacher to football (soccer) players and managers, as well as collaborating with various football media outlets in ...

In the glass-walled conference rooms of Silicon Valley and research labs worldwide, some of the brightest minds are working to solve what author Brian Christian called "the alignment problem." The ...

• Divine Command Theory – right is what God commands, wrong is what God forbids. • Naturalism: Utilitarianism – right is what causes pleasure, wrong is what causes pain. • Non-naturalism: Intuitionism ...

what it is (the belief that values can be defined in terms of some natural property in the world) and its application to absolutism what it is (the belief that basic moral truths are indefinable but ...

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