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NewsA blog for 'Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism' Professor Peter Anstey is currently the Principal Investigator of a Marsden-funded project (2009–2011) on 'Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism'. Other researchers on the project include Alberto Vanzo, Juan Manuel Gomez, Kirsten Walsh and Dr Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge). You can visit the project blog here.
Charles Pigden: Hume on Is and Ought An edited collection, Hume on Is and Ought has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. It ‘seems altogether inconceivable’, says Hume, that this ‘new relation’ ought ‘can be a deduction’ from others ‘which are entirely different from it'. The idea that you can’t derive an ought from an is, moral conclusions from non-moral premises, has proved enormously influential. But what did Hume mean by this famous dictum? Was he correct? How does it fit in with the rest of his philosophy? This collection, the first on this topic for forty years, assembles a distinguished cast of international scholars to discuss these questions.
The book is available from Amazon here.
Announcing the Dan and Gwen Taylor LectureWednesday August 25 at 5pmProfessor Emerita Annette Baier (University of Pittsburg) Footprints: what we leave to those who come after us Archway 2 Lecture Theatre All Welcome
Announcing two new titles Annette Baier has recently published two books: Reflections on How We Live (OUP, 2010) The Cautious Jealous Virtue: Hume on Justice (Harvard, 2010)
Announcing the Musgrave Scholarship in PhilosophyFundraising Appeal To honour Professor Alan Musgrave, who intends to retire from the Chair of Philosophy at the end of 2010, and with the aim of furthering his legacy, we are delighted to announce an appeal that will attract high calibre international students who wish to undertake postgraduate study towards a Masters degree here. If you would like to know more about the Musgrave Scholarship Appeal then visit the site.
Marsden Postdoctoral Fellow arrives Dr Alberto Vanzo has been appointed as Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Professor Peter Anstey on his Marsden funded project. Dr Vanzo is from the University of Padova and the University of Essex. He has now joined our research team working on early modern philosophy, and is based in Room 104.
Two new books published by staff Charles Pigden: Hume on Motivation and Virtue An edited collection, Hume on Motivation and Virtue has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. It is edited by Charles Pigden and contains essays by, among others, Annette Baier, Rosalind Hursthouse, Richard Joyce, Graham Oddie, and Michael Smith.
Alan Musgrave: Secular Sermons Secular Sermons contains fourteen essays by Alan Musgrave that examine the basic assumptions of science, religion, and mathematics. The book is an insightful introduction to the philosophical thought of Aristotle, Bacon, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Darwin, and Einstein, among others. It puts modern science in a broader historical perspective and offers an entertaining introduction to the philosophical paradigm of Critical Rationalism.
Philosophy tops PBRF In 2007 the Otago Philosophy Department was the top-scoring philosophy department, the top-scoring department at the university and the top-scoring research department of any kind in New Zealand, according to the PBRF (the New Zealand equivalent of the British RAE). In the 2003 PBRF round, the Otago department also came top, but in 2007 we improved our score, going up from 6.6 to 7.5.
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