BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Philosophy events - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T140000 DTSTAMP:20260614T164946 CREATED:20240331T005403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T040943Z UID:10001999-1714478400-1714485600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-59/ CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T140000 DTSTAMP:20260614T164946 CREATED:20240427T041427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T043819Z UID:10002046-1714478400-1714485600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar: Haoxu Wang (University of 58Թ) DESCRIPTION:Title: Can a Russellian Monist Be a Genuine Physicalist?\n\nAbstract:\nCurrently\, Russellian Monism is a cutting-edge theory in the discussion of phenomenal consciousness. It has the potential to retain the advantages of both narrow physicalism and narrow dualism by locating phenomenal consciousness in a fundamentally unified universe\, having it play essential causal roles in the physical aspect\, and at the same time respecting its specific features.   Many see Russellian Monism as an opportunity to construct a new version of physicalism\, Russellian physicalism\, which has more advantages than narrow physicalism because it can avoid the difficulties faced by narrow physicalism\, especially those posed by the knowledge argument (Jackson\, 1982; 1986)\, the explanatory gap argument (Levine\, 1983; 2006)\, and the conceivability argument (Chalmers\, 2009). But the issue here is more complex. Some argue that a genuine or full-blooded physicalist must deny that there is anything specific to phenomenal consciousness at the fundamental level of the universe. Russellian Monism takes intrinsic natures (or quiddities) underlying structures and relations at the fundamental level in the universe as the keys to explaining the generation of high-level phenomenal consciousness\, which is itself the high-level intrinsic nature of high-level structural systems such as human brains. However\, it is argued that Russellian fundamental quiddities must be specific to consciousness\, and thus\, Russellian physicalism is itself an inconsistent theory. This is bad news for physicalists in general.\nIn this paper\, I will argue that it is compatible for a Russellian Monist to be a genuine physicalist or that the concept of “Russellian physicalism” is consistent. There have been some illuminating arguments for the compatibility on this issue\, but I will argue that they\, in some sense\, miss the core point of the challenge of incompatibility or inconsistency to Russellian physicalism. After setting out this core point\, I will offer my own responses. URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-haoxu-wang-university-of-st-andrews/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T164946 CREATED:20240331T005403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240429T042405Z UID:10002000-1714489200-1714496400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-10/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T164946 CREATED:20240430T043819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T043819Z UID:10002051-1714489200-1714496400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar – Sebastián Stuart (St. Andrews) DESCRIPTION:Title: grounding metaphysics on Reddit posts\, a work in progress. \nAbstract: In this presentation I will be walking us through the methodological challenges I face in writing the second chapter of my thesis. Broadly\, my thesis is an attempt to ameliorate the concept of ‘gender dysphoria’. The first chapter argued that the current mainstream construals of gender dysphoria are ethically and descriptively inaccurate of the phenomenon in question. The aim of the second chapter is to provide an alternative definition of gender dysphoria that is able to meet the desiderata the previously considered construals failed to meet. In order to do this I have three steps planned: The first is identifying paradigmatic dysphoric/euphoric-like experiences in trans* testimony from Reddit. The second step is a stipulation of two new ‘dysphoria/euphoria’ concept pairs in light of the testimony. The third step reintegrates the ameliorated concepts within testimonial case studies in order to demonstrate two things: First\, that the concept pairs clearly track real features of the world. Second\, that the concept pairs can provide a full account of the nature of gender dysphoria. URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-sebastian-stuart-st-andrews/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR