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Recent debates in ethics and moral psychology have attempted to call into question the foundations of virtue theory by using empirical research from the social sciences. The situationists claim that virtue theory is empirically inadequate because although people’s behavior can be consistent in similar situations, it is often not consistent across different types of situations. [...]

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Death is a common topic of speculation and frequently anxiety. In the time that Epicurus was laying out his way of life and sharing it with others this was the case. Epicurus, though, claimed that we should not fear death because, “Death, the most frightening of bad things, is nothing to us; since [...]

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… a colloquium featuring Kenneth Dorter (University of Guelph) at FSU today, Friday, February 23rd. For details, see FSU’s department website.
- Rico Vitz

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On the Life of a Playboy-Bunny,
I recall an evening in the early summer of August 1997, when I was strolling towards a movie theatre in Santa Monica, California to take in some of Hollywood’s cinematographic delights. A friend of mine, who was, at the time, residing in Paris, rang in with the terrible news that [...]

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While there are arguably not many things in philosophy that we can call ‘Absolutely True’ there is at least one thing in life that is certain. Those who have met me know that I tend to talk…at lot! After recently enjoying my birthday (which I celebrate, as I find birthdays a far better option than [...]

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Leslie Thiele will be speaking at USF on Friday, February 2nd.
(UPDATE 02/01: The title of Professor Thiele’s paper is “The Education of Eros: Aristotle and Neuroscience.” For more details, see comments.)
- Rico Vitz

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12th Annual Arizona Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy  
Plato and Socrates on the Nature and Teaching of Virtue
February 16-18, 2007
University of Arizona, Tucson
Speakers include Julia Annas (Arizona), C.D.C. Reeve (UNC), Hugh Benson (Oklahoma), Rachana Kamtekar (Arizona) and many others.
Registration is due February 1st.  See website for more details.
http://phil.web.arizona.edu/events/ancientphilo.htm
- Jen Giesselmann

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