Read graduate student Drew Johnson’s recent article in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, “Disjunctive Luminosity.” *Abstract* Williamson’s influential anti‐luminosity argument aims to show that our own mental states are not “luminous,” and that we are thus “cognitively homeless.” Among other things, this argument represents a significant challenge to the idea that we enjoy basic self‐knowledge of […]
Month: March 2021
Nathan Sheff: “Wilfrid Sellars, Sensory Experience and the ‘Myth of the Given'”
Read alumni Nathan Sheff’s (PhD 2017) recent essay in Psyche, titled “Wilfrid Sellars, sensory experience and the ‘Myth of the Given.’”
Alexus McLeod: Aeon+Psyche Pick from the Archive
Psyche, a digital magazine run by Aeon Media Group that explores the human condition through mental health, the question of “how to live,” and the arts and transcendent experience, has selected Associate Professor Alexus McLeod’s 2020 essay as the editor’s pick from the archive. Read “Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal” […]
Michael Hegarty: A Dilemma for Naturalistic Theories of Intentionality
Read graduate student Michael Hegarty’s recent publication in the Usinos Journal of Philosophy, “A Dilemma for Naturalistic Theories of Intentionality.”
Tracy Llanera: The Women Doing Philosophy Group in the Philippines
At the height of the pandemic crisis in 2020, Filipino women philosophers everywhere gathered virtually to form the group Women Doing Philosophy. Read two feature essays about the organization in the APA-Black Issues in Philosophy Blog: “To Slay a Specter: on the Founding of the Women Doing Philosophy Group in the Phillippines” by Cass Teodosio, […]