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Sydney University Summer School 2010

Posted in Aesthetics, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, Personal, Plato, René Magritte, Sydney University on September 5, 2009 | 25 Comments »

In January-February 2010 I am going to be delivering some lectures for a philosophy course being offered at Sydney University Summer School. The course is a first-year introductory subject called ‘Reality, Ethics, and Beauty’. I will be teaching the ‘Beauty’ component of the course, presenting 8 lectures on aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
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Ethics and Reality – Part 1: David Hume’s Critique

Posted in Aristotle, David Hume, Ethics, Metaethics, The Enlightenment on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In this post and the next I’ll be discussing ethics and how it is related to reality. The question I want to pose and offer some thoughts on is: in what sense can our ethics be derived from observing, living in, thinking about, and feeling our way through the reality we inhabit? In ethics, this [...]

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