Oct
27
Kierkegaard, ethics, and acosmism
October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Good afternoon, UPA’ers. As some of you might already know, Kierkegaard holds a special place in my heart, so this week I decided to treat myself to a little philosophical self-indulgence by choosing Louis Mackey’s paper “The Loss of the World in Kierkegaard’s Ethics”. Mackey, a former professor here at UT and recipient of the [...]
Oct
20
Guest lecturer: Anthony Norton on Leiter’s “The Demarcation Problem in Jurisprudence”
October 20, 2011 | 9 Comments
Good afternoon, UPA’ers! I’m very glad to announce that we will be having a guest lecturer this Friday. Some of you might remember Anthony Norton’s presentation on the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Nietzsche at the end of last year, and I’m happy to have him back again this Friday to talk about Brian [...]