Wesley Buckwalter
Host of Journal Entries
Wesley Buckwalter is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University. He studies epistemology, cognitive science, and moral psychology.
Wesley Buckwalter has hosted 14 Episodes.
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On Having Bad Persons as Friends with Jessica Isserow
April 4th, 2020 | 28 mins 52 secs
bad people, cancel culture, character, friendship, intuition, morality
Jessica Isserow (University of Leeds) talks about her paper "On Having Bad Persons as Friends" arguing that doing so reflects disordered moral priorities.
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Causing and Nothingness with Helen Beebee
April 4th, 2020 | 39 mins 22 secs
absences, causation, common sense, david lewis, explanation, intuition, metaphysics
Helen Beebee (Univerity of Manchester) talks about her paper "Causing and Nothingness" arguing that the absence of something can never be a cause.