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FAH/DPHIL: The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay
The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay is awarded for excellence in philosophy. Students enrolled in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies undergraduate courses are eligible to enter an essay for the annual award. Students are invited to submit an academic essay written as an assignment in one of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies’ undergraduate courses this academic year (AY2024/2025). Essays of any length are acceptable. The organisers reserve the right not to award the prize if essays are not of sufficiently high standard. Please submit essays by e-mail with the subject line ‘Submission for the Mario Echano Prize’ to Maggie Wong at MaggieWong@um.edu.mo. Attach your essay to the message as a Microsoft Word document (other […]
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FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Reaching Addicted Minds” by Dr. Daniel Morgan, University of York, United Kingdom
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Reaching Addicted Minds” by Dr. Daniel Morgan, University of York, United Kingdom
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/96566927288 Password: 990210 Abstract One approach to the question of why addiction excuses is to focus on the question of what addiction is. In this presentation, I take a different approach, focusing on the question of what excuses are. I argued that excuses are considerations that block inferences to a morally deficient psychology. It falls out of this view of what excuses are that a relatively surface-level property of addiction – the fact when one is addicted to something, one is highly motivated by it – is sufficient to explain why addiction excuses. The view about excuses also supports a diagnosis of why the point about motivation can seem insufficient to explain why addiction excuses. Central to the […]
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FAH/DPHIL: 4th International Conference on Natural Cognition – “Deception: Self, Others, and the Digital World”
Conference website: https://naturalcognition2024.wixsite.com/academic-conference