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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Situationism and virtue theory: Can we know if we are virtuous?
Posted in Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, General Interest, Moral Psychology on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Weakness and Will in Plato’s Republic”
Posted in Ancient Philosophy, News & Notes on February 23, 2007 | No Comments »
… a colloquium featuring Kenneth Dorter (University of Guelph) at FSU today, Friday, February 23rd. For details, see FSU’s department website.
- Rico Vitz
Valuable or Worthless? - A Human Life Considered…
Posted in Ancient Philosophy, Christianity, Feminist Philosophy, General Interest, Late Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion on February 11, 2007 | 13 Comments »
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 [...]
On Silence…
Posted in Ancient Philosophy, Christianity, Feminist Philosophy, General Interest, Islam, Philosophy of Religion, Race and Gender on February 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
USF Colloquium
Posted in Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, News & Notes, Philosophy of Mind, Political Theory on February 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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
Plato and Socrates on the Nature and Teaching of Virtue
Posted in Ancient Philosophy, Conferences on January 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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
