'Children across development find some widely shared aspects of morality to be impossible to change...[that] not even God could change fundamental moral principles.' – Reinecke & Solomon (2023). Discuss.
[A fascinating paper for anyone in meta-ethics!]
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Gen. AI has created, or worsened, serious problems for higher education. But the conditions that enabled such damage have almost nothing to do with AI. They are what went wrong when anyone thought that you go to university ‘just to get a piece of paper.’ Any serious solution must recognise that.
Even the Campanile at Trinity is in the festive spirit, not to be outdone by the new tree on campus!
✨ New research from the Department.
"Divinely Prescribed Evil and Moral Knowledge in Islam and Beyond" by Dr @farbod-a.bsky.social . Published in AGATHEOS – European Journal for #Philosophy of Religion, Vol 2, No 3.
Read it here ⬇️
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Here is the symposium I guest edited for *Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion* on Amir Saemi's book, *Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond*, with excellent contributions by I. Aijaz, F. Akhlaghi, R. Audi, and L. Brown, to all of whom I am deeply grateful.
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❓Does God’s existence follow from the fact that something exists?
The great Persian philosopher Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) thought so. In 999 words, I explain why here!
I hope students and teachers of the phil. of religion, history of phil., or metaphysics might find this helpful. So please do share!
Special issue of Philosophical Quarterly on epistemic injustice, guest edited by Mona Simion:
Really looking forward to this and chatting with @quiteclare.bsky.social about the ethics of transformative and other hard choices!
Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
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An issue of the Monist has just appeared devoted to Ibn Sīnā/Avicenna! A great lineup of authors, and I'm honored to be part of it, having written a paper with Michael Noble about the reception of the idea of the Active Intellect.
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📚Delighted to share that I've accepted an invitation to write a book: a Cambridge Element on *Truth in Ethics* for Cambridge University Press!
Alongside introducing debates on the nature of truth in ethics, I'll also be arguing for greater attention to truthmaker theory in ethics!
❓Would it be wrong for someone to stop you from making a major life choice?
📽️ For a 90-second answer, check out the video below!
🔗 For a little bit more, you can also check out my paper published Open Access in Analysis: academic.oup.com/analysis/art...
⏳Hoping to say more soon!
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The Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin are calling for expressions of interest in two great funding schemes - one for full PhD funding, and one for postdoctoral positions, both through Research Ireland (our main state research council). 1/2
Many congratulations to Enda for winning this award! I was very happy to nominate him for it after his doing a fantastic job TA-ing Topics in Philosophy II A for us - TA-ing on transformative experience and the philosophy of death. Congrats to all winners and nominees!
The Philosophy Bites podcast has a new website (with transcriptions) - over 300 interviews with leading philosophers philosophybites.com
Along the way, I identify what needs to be done for a view like Amir's to be made more plausible – whilst doubting this can be achieved – and an interesting lacuna in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion about Islam that deserves much more attention!
Saemi offers an ingenious 'ethics-first' solution: take these morally controversial Scriptural passages to include not moral permissions and requirements, but legal ones. I argue that this solution will not work, specifically for a Muslim or, indeed, any theist.
The topic is the problem of divinely prescribed evil: how, if at all, a theist can reconcile their belief that Scripture is the word of God, and that their moral judgements are reliable, with Scriptural injunctions that appear to permit and require evil actions.
Delighted to be able to share this new forthcoming paper: my part of a book symposium on Amir Saemi's excellent 'Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond', edited by Mohammad Saleh Zarepour for Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. philpapers.org/rec/AKHDPE
The topic is the problem of divinely prescribed evil: how, if at all, a theist can reconcile their belief that Scripture is the word of God with, and that their moral judgements are reliable, with Scriptural injunctions that appear to permit and require evil actions.
Along the way, I identify what needs to be done for a view like Amir's to be made more plausible – whilst doubting this can be achieved – and an interesting lacuna in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion about Islam that deserves much more attention!
Saemi offers an ingenious 'ethics-first' solution: take these morally controversial Scriptural passages to include not moral permissions and requirements, but legal ones. I argue that this solution will not work, specifically for a Muslim or, indeed, any theist.
The topic is the problem of divinely prescribed evil: how, if at all, a theist can reconcile their belief that Scripture is the word of God with, and that their moral judgements are reliable, with Scriptural injunctions that appear to permit and require evil actions.
