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FWIW, my semi-expert opinion on this aligns pretty closely with David’s: we’re playing with fire here, and there’s a real…
I don’t disagree with David Wallace, the things he says are to my mind obviously true. But I have a…
A few things: (1) It may be worth noting, chiefly for the benefit of those impressed by the idea that…
David Berman was my PhD supervisor in the late 1970s and early 1980s for my research on the philosophy of…
Let me have a go at the “normie” case for worrying about catastrophic if perhaps not quite existential risks, avoiding…
Hey Brian, I happen to have worked on exactly this question recently, and the debate is richer and more interesting…
Somewhat uncharacteristically, I don’t think I have the energy for a knock-down-drag-out fight on this subject, even though I find…
Ulrike Heuer (ethics, practical reason, philosophy of action), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leeds, has accepted an offer to become Reader in Philosophy at University College London, starting this September.
(Thanks to Jose Zalabardo for the information.)
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