Author: Erica

  • Can Nietzsche’s Nachlass be used as evidence for his philosophy?

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    Date: November 21, 2025 (Friday)  Time: 15:30 – 17:00 Venue: Room 10.13, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Jing Huang Assistant Professor Sun Yat-sen University Abstract: This talk addresses a curious phenomenon in Anglophone Nietzsche scholarship: while scholars working on philosophers such as Kant and Husserl increasingly value their unpublished writings, the so-called Nachlass,…

  • Ethical Inquiry with Non-epistemic Aims?

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    Date: September 26, 2025 (Fri)  Speaker: Professor David Plunkett Philosophy Department at Dartmouth College Abstract: Most recent philosophical work on inquiry takes it to have a distinctively epistemic aim, such as promoting understanding, knowledge, or true beliefs. However, many philosophers have long thought – or at least have been tempted by – the idea that…