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A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom
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Medieval Logic Seminar: John Dumbleton on Insolubles
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Language and Mind Seminar | Amr Salih
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom -
Conceptual Engineering Seminar | David Ludwig (Wageningen): “The politics of conceptual engineering from a global perspective: Lessons from Latin America and West Africa”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract. 鈥� This talk addresses methodological and political challenges of conceptual engineering in cross-cultural perspective. Based on four case studies of interdisciplinary (empirical and philosophical) research projects in Latin America and West Africa, the talk demonstrates the heterogeneity of epistemological and ontological perspectives of stakeholders and the often hidden politics of their inclusion/exclusion in the…
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Super Special Seminar tba
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom -
Epistemology Seminar. Talk: Philip Ebert (Stirling) and Martin Smith (Edinburgh): “Varieties of Risk”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract: The notion of risk plays a central role in economics, finance, health, psychology, law and elsewhere, and is prevalent in managing challenges and resources in day-to-day life. In recent work, Duncan Pritchard (2015, 2016) has argued against the orthodox probabilistic conception of risk on which the risk of a hypothetical scenario is determined by…
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Medieval Logic Seminar: John Dumbleton on Insolubles
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom -
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Language and Mind Seminar | Savvas Ioannou
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom -
Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth): “How should we think about linguistic function?”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract. 鈥� Talk of function often plays a central role in work on conceptual engineering. An appeal to functions can provide much needed standards for evaluating and constructing concepts, according to how well they fulfill their functions, and whether those functions are desirable. However, there has also been a great deal of skepticism about the…
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Metaphysics of Mind Workshop
A virtual workshop by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomThere are various recent theories of what is the relationship between the mental and the physical (such as grounding theories and panpsychism). This workshop is an opportunity to explore new theories and arguments concerning the metaphysics of the mind. This could be about mental properties in general or a specific kind of mental properties (e.g.,…
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Super Special Seminar tba
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Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA!): Sarah Moss (UMich) “How to Be a Clever Contextualist”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract: This talk defends a contextualist theory of 鈥榢nowledge鈥� ascriptions. I argue that in some sentences, the implicit argument of 鈥榢nows鈥� is bound by a quantifier. The natural readings of these sentences can be generated by contextualist theories, but not by competing interest-relative theories of knowledge. In addition, I argue that the contextualist can explain…