King’s philosophy PhD candidate Jon Thompson’s paper “‘Intimations of immortality’: a response to Bernard Williams” is now available online with Religious Studies. Many congratulations, Jon!
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26 Wednesday Sep 2018
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inKing’s philosophy PhD candidate Jon Thompson’s paper “‘Intimations of immortality’: a response to Bernard Williams” is now available online with Religious Studies. Many congratulations, Jon!
Click here to read the paper.
13 Wednesday Apr 2016
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inThomas Byrne, one of the department’s graduate students, has a forthcoming paper in Philosophical Studies. The abstract is below and you can read the paper here.
‘G.E. Moore said that rightness was obviously a matter of maximising plain goodness. Peter Geach and Judith Thomson disagree. They have both argued that ‘good’ is not a predicative adjective, but only ever an attributive adjective: just like ‘big.’ And just as there is no such thing as plain bigness but only ever big for or as a so-and-so, there is also no such thing as plain goodness. They conclude that Moore’s goodness is thus a nonsense. However attention has been drawn to a weakness in their arguments. Mahrad Almotahari and Adam Hosein have sought to plug that weakness. If their plug holds, then there is no goodness. Doing most of their work is the following premise: adjective φ is predicative only if it can be used predicatively in ‘x is a φ K’ otherwise it is attributive. In this paper I argue that this premise is false, that their plug does not hold and that if one is to reject plain goodness it will have to be for other reasons.’
22 Monday Feb 2016
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inCharles Cote-Bouchard (KCL postgraduate student working in epistemology and metaethics) just received word that his paper, ‘Can the Aim of Belief Ground Epistemic Normativity?’ has been accepted for publication by Philosophical Studies. Congratulations to Charles on this fantastic achievement. Interested readers can find an early draft of the paper here.
08 Monday Feb 2016
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inSarah Fine’s collection (co-edited with Lea Ypi), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, is now available through Oxford University Press. This book brings together twelve original papers on migration from leading international figures (including, of course, our very own Sarah Fine). Interested readers can learn more about the collection and get a look at its introduction here.