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This is happening on Thursday 👇

Can liberalism work for, and in, the far future? Simon Goldstein (in a recent paper with Peter N. Salib) thinks so. We'll be delighted to have Simon Goldstein (HKU) on October 8 at the Moral Minds and Ethical Futures seminar (12h CET). You are all warmly invited. More info below 👇

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New paper in draft! I've been working on this one since 2018, never satisfied, redrafting over and over. I'm sure it still needs considerable work, but I'm finally ready to circulate it. Walking the Walk Ethicists who advocate moral principles without trying to live by them will generally 1/4

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Every time I go back to Spain and re-experience how badly trains work I remember the relevant minister spends all his time arguing with randos on Twitter and my blood boils a little.

‼️ Now OPEN ACCESS 🐭 People often think that, if we keep replacing animal models with NAMs, eventually we'll use fewer animals. It's why many people endorse the 3Rs. But as I argue, we also constantly come up with new animal models. There's kind of a pipeline dynamic. And it can go on indefinitely.

Introduce yourself with ten acts you've seen live. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Mogwai Yo La Tengo The Sonics (or whatever it's left) Flamin' Groovies (ditto) Damien Jurado The National Charley Crockett Durand Jones & The Indications Jake Xerxes Fussell

I agree. It's especially surprising since he has worked in animal ethics, where most of us defend views completely opposed to the status quo. More generally, moral philosophers who appeal to intuitions quite often - e.g. Parfit - make radically revisionary claims.

I‘ve been thinking about Walter‘s essay all afternoon. I‘ve been trying to think of an analytic political or moral philosopher whose arguments wouldn‘t require a radical change to the status quo & I‘m struggling. Almost the entire characterisation of analytic philosophy in the piece is false.