BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Philosophy events - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Philosophy events X-ORIGINAL-URL:/philevents X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Philosophy events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T140000 DTSTAMP:20260614T220245 CREATED:20231109T140105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T140105Z UID:10001760-1700568000-1700575200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind Seminar: DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-52/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T220245 CREATED:20231109T140105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231114T142309Z UID:10001761-1700578800-1700586000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-2/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T220245 CREATED:20231115T143933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T152425Z UID:10001804-1700578800-1700586000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar – Edgar Phillips (St. Andrews) DESCRIPTION:Title: Philosophical foundations for radical love \nAbstract: Much recent philosophical work on love seeks to understand it as a fitting response to the value of those we love\, with such accounts typically being articulated in terms of ‘reasons for love’. Debates in this area have been animated by a couple of challenges: first\, to explain the way in which the loved one is unique or irreplaceable to the lover; second\, to explain love’s ‘selectivity’\, that is the fact that people typically love only a relatively very few people\, specifically people to whom they are interpersonally connected in certain distinctive kinds of ways. These challenges are interconnected\, because the value that makes individuals irreplaceable is\, plausibly\, one that every human being possesses just as such; this makes it difficult to explain love’s selectivity in a way that vindicates it\, that is to say\, that reveals it as an aspect of love’s proper responsiveness to its reasons. In this talk\, I first bring out some (largely implicit) assumptions that frame this debate. I then sketch (and I mean sketch) a way in which we might resolve these tensions if we are prepared to question some of those assumptions. On the view I will outline\, the irreplaceability of individuals is intimately connected to their very individuality and hence their particularity. I suggest that this idea cannot readily be accommodated within a reasons framework without distortion. I also make a suggestion as to how the selectivity of love might be explained consistently with this idea. Significantly\, the explanation is not vindicatory\, and raises the possibility that we might try to be more loving than we ordinarily are\, as well as questions about what this might mean. URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-edgar-phillips-st-andrews/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T190000 DTSTAMP:20260614T220245 CREATED:20231110T140812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T152425Z UID:10001801-1700586000-1700593200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind Seminar: Takashi Yagisawa (California State University\, Northridge) DESCRIPTION:Title: Ontology of Some Philosophy \nAbstract: \nWhen philosophers discuss philosophical views\, theories\, or arguments\, their discussion is often not metaphysically innocent. Given certain substantial but widely accepted assumptions concerning relativization of truth\, the worlds framework\, and understanding ontological issues in terms of domains of discourse (see Three Insights below)\, it can be argued that the extent of ontological involvement of some philosophical discussion is considerable. In particular\, philosophical discussion concerning modal metaphysics frequently makes the discussants incur non-trivial ontological commitments. \nThree Insights: \n(1) It is useful to relativize the notion of truth for many philosophical purposes; a sentence is true or false at a truth-relativizer. \n(2) The framework of worlds\, including both possible worlds and impossible worlds\, gives us truth-relativizers for the purposes of explicating the truth conditions of many important kinds of sentences\, in particular\, counterfactual conditional sentences. \n(3) Ontological matters should be understood as matters pertaining to the domain of discourse associated with quantification. \nSupposition-Based Argument: \n“You assert P. Suppose you are right and P is true. Then Q follows. But Q is false. So\, P is false and you are not right”. \nClaim: \nThree Insights + Supposition-Based Argument ⇨ a potentially endless sequence of ever-expanding ontological commitments. 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