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62Getting All Emotional about the Fear of DeathIn T. Ryan Byerly (ed.), Death, Immortality, and Eternal Life, Routledge. 2021.In the contemporary fear of death literature, few if any discuss what implications insights from the philosophical literature on emotions might have for arguments about the fear of death’s rationality. I remedy that here. I discuss two types of arguments to conclusions about the fear of death’s rationality. One type is Badness Arguments. The other is Epicurean Arguments. Both argument types have contradictory conclusions. Both employ different conditional claims as their crucial premise. And bot…Read more
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412Epistemic Slurs: A Novel Explicandum and Adequacy Constraint for Slur TheoriesErkenntnis 87 (4): 2029-2046. 2022.I argue that there are slurs that are distinctly derogatory insofar as they only derogate their target’s epistemic faculties or capacities qua group member. I call these slurs epistemic slurs. Given that slur theories should explain the derogatory nature of all slurs, any comprehensive slur theory should be able to explain the derogatory nature of the epistemic slurs. I argue, however, that two particular expressivist theories of slurs cannot explain their distinctive derogatory nature. The epis…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
Death and Dying, Misc |
Philosophy of Language |
Meta-Ethics |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |