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Category: Ethics

The Moral Psychology of Amusement now available

December 15, 2021 publiusnemo

My new edited volume, The Moral Psychology of Amusement, is now published and available from Rowman & Littlefield, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble.…

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Posted in: Ethics, Humor, Interdisciplinarity, Moral Pscyhology, News, Publication, Research, Uncategorized

Plague, Plato, and Propaganda

October 22, 2020 publiusnemo

Every year, my department (History, Political Science, and Philosophy) hosts a Constitution Day talk on Sept. 17, the anniversary of…

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Posted in: Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Presentation, Teaching
Tissues and cup of tea

Missing SSPP

March 12, 2019 Brian Robinson

Stupid flu. I missed the SSPP.

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Posted in: Ethics, Moral Pscyhology, Presentation, Research

Moral Psychology

October 19, 2018 Brian Robinson

The flyler for my new Moral Psychology class, coming in the spring!

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Posted in: Ethics, Moral Pscyhology, Teaching
Wooden stairs in the woods

Teaching Intellectual Humility

September 24, 2018 Brian Robinson

[Cross-posted on Open for Debate] We have good reason for wanting to teach and instill the virtue of intellectual humility.…

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Posted in: Ethics, Humility, Moral Pscyhology, Teaching

CFA: Moral Psychology of Amusement

March 29, 2018 Brian Robinson

Call for Abstracts Abstracts are sought for a collection on the moral psychology of amusement, as part of Rowan and Littlefield…

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Posted in: Ethics, Moral Pscyhology, News, Research

Responding to Egoism

September 24, 2017 Brian Robinson

I’ve been teaching ethics since 2006, and just about every semester I teach the problem of ethical egoism. In short,…

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Posted in: Ethics, Teaching, Unpublished Thoughts, Value of Philosophy

Measuring Intellectual Humility

August 17, 2017 Brian Robinson 1 Comment

As a culmination of our intellectual humility grant in 2013, my co-authors (Mark Alfano, Kathryn Iurino, Paul Stey, Markus Christen,…

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Posted in: Ethics, Experimental Philosophy, Moral Pscyhology, News, Publication, Research

Gossip and Its Limits

December 17, 2015 Brian Robinson

The timing was rather fortuitous that as I finish final revisions for my forthcoming article on gossip in The Monist…

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Posted in: Ethics, News, Philosophy of Language, Research

Flags, Racism, and Mixed Messages

June 28, 2015 Brian Robinson

The “Confederate Flag”1 should be taken down immediately, at the South Carolina capitol and on any other state grounds (in…

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Posted in: Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Unpublished Thoughts

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