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Contending and disruptive forces unleashed by the processes of globalization have brought into question the durability of the prevailing global order. Is the current international arrangement robust enough to respond to these challenges? Or are we confronting a future of decentralized power and global chaos?
The Hawaii Club invites you to join us at the…
Lu’au 2016
Mohala i ka wai ka maka o ka pua.
Unfolded by the water are the faces of the flowers.
Saturday, April 2nd - Food @ 5pm and Performance @ 7pm
Pamplin Sports Center
Meal is free for students on a Bon meal plan, or $11.50 at the door.
Lu’au 2016 includes Hawaiian Food Catered by the Bon, Various Hula Performances, Shave Ice, Crafts, and a great island experience!
In his recent book, The Ethical Project, Philip Kitcher offers a pragmatic naturalistic metaethical account of moral progress. Examining ethical practice, Kitcher presents a functional account of it as a social technology for alleviating altruism failures, one exemplified in a phylogeny of moral practice including elimination of chattel slavery and recognition of both women’s rights and gay rights. He suggests a theory of bio-cultural evolution as an ultimate explanation of this phylogeny and, as proximate mechanisms, social-cultural learning, socially engaged normative guidance and cognitively equipped emotions. Given these scientifically supported bases, Kitcher argues that pragmatic naturalism offers the best metaethical account of why these changes in moral practice are morally progressive. Making use of these same scientific bases, I argue that Kitcher’s metaethical account requires the adoption of an objective moral realism, one, nevertheless, that is compatible with his core pragmatism.
Knot Invariants: The Jones Polynomial and its Generalizations
By Cyndel Binkley ’14