Nov
10
Memory and Knowledge: The Epistemological Significance of Biology
November 10, 2011 | 421 Comments
Good afternoon, philosophers! What is memory? Is it just drawing on a cache of retained knowledge? Or, as Plato had it, is it the vehicle by which we gain knowledge? These are the questions that D.M. Johnson focuses on “Memory and Knowledge: The Epistemological Significance of Biology”, which we will be covering this week. Johnson [...]
Nov
3
Wickedness
November 3, 2011 | 3 Comments
Hello, philosophers! This week, we will be going over what Aristotle, in his Nichomachean Ethics, calls ‘wickedness’. The paper by Ronald D. Milo, aptly titled “Wickedness”, begins with an examination of two kinds of immorality that Aristotle enumerates: weakness and wickedness. Both kinds are blameworthy in that they lack excusing conditions, but what differentiates them [...]