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toby handfield about teaching research presentations blog toby handfield about teaching research presentations blog toby handfield is a professor of philosophy in the school of philosophical historical and international studies at monash university curriculum vitae books more information about current projects in research and teaching a complete list of published papers collaborators contact email protected blog feb 10 2020 lessons for social epistemology from evolutionary biology feb 10 2020 what lessons might epistemologists draw about the possibilities for cooperation in online networks from evolutionary biology and evolutionary game theory in particular feb 10 2020 may 29 2018 kantianism is false may 29 2018 to the extent that universalisability is a nice idea it works well for the classic social dilemma the prisoners dilemma or its multi player equivalent the tragedy of the commons in such cases there is one cooperative action which if everyone performed it would be best for the collective but it is always better for each individual to abstain from cooperating in such cases we cannot rationally will that everyone abstain that would defeat our rational aims so there is a duty to cooperate may 29 2018 may 20 2018 collective knowledge is easy ignorance is hard may 20 2018 although collectives manage to do something that resembles the functional package of agency overall they achieve this without any clear isolatable analogue of beliefs intentions and the like so we cannot identify any analogous failure of those organs even if we are confident that the package as a whole has failed collectives can be agents and they can be subject to failures of agency but their failures may not be classifiable as either ignorance or weakness of will may 20 2018 oct 20 2017 philosophy is not serious about being a discipline oct 20 2017 the speaker in a research presentation can expect to benefit more than the audience the idea is somehow that the audience is there to ask questions which will help the speaker sharpen the argument that the presentation will be an opportunity for enhancing the prestige of the speaker and generally satisfying his or her ego all good for the speaker to be sure but the audience won t really learn much oct 20 2017 oct 10 2017 a good exit oct 10 2017 deliberate extinction of the species would be the morally heroic option if oct 10 2017 sep 21 2017 when good norms turn bad sep 21 2017 why are people so darn cooperative among economists a popular answer has been social norms enforced by peer punishment in a new paper we devised an experiment to investigate the dark side of this mechanism social norms can be destructive and punishment can lock societies into bad norms sep 21 2017 aug 18 2017 egalitarianism about expected utility a counterexample to voorhoeve and fleurbaey aug 18 2017 voorhoeve and fleurbaey have erred in their suggestion that this hybrid currency is the appropriate object of distributive concern aug 18 2017 aug 15 2017 an experiment for decision theorists aug 15 2017 our hunch is that the extreme parameters used in newcomb s original case are bad news for the reliability of the intuitions it generates aug 15 2017 apr 7 2017 good news for moral intuition mongers apr 7 2017 if anything demaree cotton is overestimating the susceptibility of moral intuition to framing effects apr 7 2017 apr 4 2017 the best thing i learned from michael sandel apr 4 2017 there is a palpable change in the atmosphere in the class one can see the students sit a little more erect in their seats their attention sharpened apr 4 2017 mar 28 2017 lucky starts in academia mar 28 2017 it might be useful however for students thinking about pursuing an academic career to see some actual data on how hard it is to get publications mar 28 2017 mar 6 2017 contemplating the mortality of our species mar 6 2017 if we knew that the human species would not exist for very long after our own deaths should it change how we live our lives now mar 6 2017 feb 20 2017 video feedback on student assignments feb 20 2017 my experiments with making short videos to provide students with feedback on their written work feb 20 2017 apr 30 2015 reflections on the flipped classroom apr 30 2015 have our classrooms already flipped apr 30 2015 sep 25 2013 presenting research old and new sep 25 2013 when giving a paper at a conference or at a research seminar should the work presented be complete or in progress sep 25 2013 presentations sep 29 2018 sacred values and signaling sep 29 2018 early experimental data testing hypothesis that sacred value attitudes serve as a signal sep 29 2018 jun 13 2018 intuitions in decision theory empirical evidence jun 13 2018 jun 13 2018 may 10 2018 the coevolution of sacred values and religion may 10 2018 may 10 2018 blog rss back to top powered by squarespace