From No-Drop to Drop: Strengthening the Case for Deductive Risk

10 Oct 24 @ 16:00 – 18:00 – In the last fifteen years, some authors have proposed one peculiar way in which deductive closure principles could fail: long chains of single-premise deductions may aggregate epistemic risk. This makes it possible for an agent to know (or justifiably belief) the non-risky premise p of a deduction but, at the same time, lack knowledge of (or justification […]

Narrativity in ethics

10 Oct 24 @ 11:30 – 13:30 – Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open University)I want to develop in this essay what we may call a dialectical thesis. I want to suggest that there is something right about both a narrative and an anti-narrative view of ethics, and that to get things right, we need to discard something in both; to learn something from both; and […]