Archive | March, 2013

Belief Updating in Moral Dilemmas

By on March 14, 2013 in Uncategorized

Derek Powell, Joseph Spino, and I have a paper on belief updating in moral dilemmas if y’all are into that sorta thing. Comments welcome/appreciated. -Zach http://publish.illinois.edu/philosophygrads/files/2013/03/ROPP-Revised.pdf

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Undesirable Responsibility

By on March 11, 2013 in Metaphysics

For the Foundations of Responsibility seminar, I wrote this brief paper on Robert Kane’s Précis of The Significance of Free Will. I found his libertarian account of responsibility really unsatisfying, and it makes me skeptical that the kind of responsibility he appeals to is the kind of responsibility we should even be interested in having. […]

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Semantic Integration as a method for investigating concepts

By on March 4, 2013 in Uncategorized

Hey All, I just finished a chapter for a volume I’m contributing to. Paper and abstract below. The psychological research on which this paper is based is also attached  below. -Zach Abstract:  The last ten years in philosophy have been marked by widespread interest in the psychology of philosophy. Much of this work has been […]

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