• Language and Mind seminar: Reading session

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    This week, we’ll have a reading session. We will read (available online): Lee, Andrew Y. (2024). Objective Phenomenology. Erkenntnis 89 (3):1197–1216.  Rasmus Overmark will lead the session.

  • Epistemology Seminar: Falbo on Inquiry

    Edgecliffe G03

    Discussion session on “Inquiring Minds Want to Improve” by Arianna Falbo Abstract: Much of the recent work on epistemology of inquiry defends two related theses. First, inquiry into a question rationally prohibits believing an answer to that question. Second, knowledge is the aim of inquiry. I develop a series of cases which indicate that inquiry…

  • Language and Mind seminar: Stefano Pugnaghi (University of 58³Ô¹Ï)

    Online Meeting via Teams

    Title: Alethic Pluralism and the Meaning of “True” Abstract: Alethic pluralism is the view that there are many ways for truth-bearers to be true since different properties realise truth in different domains. Thus, especially in its strong version, pluralism amounts to the claim that the notion of truth we ordinarily employ is actually directly linked with a…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam & 58³Ô¹Ï)

    Edgecliffe G03

    Speaker: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam & 58³Ô¹Ï) A Foucauldian critique of the epistemic injustice research program  Catarina Dutilh Novaes (joint work with Merel Talbi and Solmu Anttila) Since the publication of Fricker’s groundbreaking Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007), vibrant debates on the complex relations between knowledge, ethics and power have ensued, arguably…

  • Language and Mind seminar: Haoxu Wang (University of 58³Ô¹Ï)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Title: 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…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Carlotta Pavese (Cornell University)

    Edgecliffe G03

    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—actions 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…