Title:聽Can a Russellian Monist Be a Genuine Physicalist? Abstract: Currently, 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…
Speaker: Carlotta Pavese (Cornell University) Are there essentially intentional actions? A long tradition in action theory holds that there are such things as essentially intentional actions鈥攁ctions that are intentional whenever performed (Anscombe, Davidson, Bennett, Turri, etc). In my talk, I argue that the existence of essentially intentional action is a philosophical myth and that this…
Title: Kant risk a lie! Abstract: Immanuel Kant says, 鈥渓ying is the chief sin against others, alongside robbery, murder and stuproviolatio鈥�. Kant never risks robbery, murder, or rape. But Kant does risk telling intentionally deceptive falsehoods. Instead of being a man a few words, Kant is a man of three million words. Equally revealing is…
Speaker: Jade Fletcher (58吃瓜) Practices, Normativity, and Ideological Construction: Conceptualizing Epistemic (In)Justice The aim of this exploratory paper is to put into dialogue two different threads in contemporary social philosophy. Charles Mills made a helpful interjection into the epistemic injustice literature when he suggested that the concept of ideology is valuable for analytic epistemologists.…
TITLE:聽Probabilistic Arbitrary Reference ABSTRACT:聽Arbitrary Reference is the idea that we can refer to individual entities with some degree of arbitrariness. Although there are different accounts of Arbitrary Reference, nearly all of them can be challenged on the basis that they entail the existence of free-floating semantic facts, namely: semantic facts which are not grounded in…
Speaker: Roy Sorensen (UT Austin & 58吃瓜) Modesty is a Contagious Blindspot I am modest about my spelling accuracy. Oops, I cannot consistently believe that! Modesty about my spelling entails I underestimate my spelling. If I indeed underestimate my spelling accuracy, then my ignorance about spelling accuracy is contagious. For if I believe you…
The event is hybrid and open to philosophy faculty and students outside 58吃瓜. Remote participants can access the teams link by requesting it from Patrick Winther-Larsen (pjwl@st-andrews.ac.uk)聽or Jessica Brown (jab30@st-andrews.ac.uk). Speakers: Endre Begby (Simon Fraser University) Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern/58吃瓜) Joshua Habgood-Coote (Leeds) Chris Kelp (Glasgow) Julia Staffel (Colorado) Elise Woodard (KCL, London) Programme:…