12 events found.
Metaphysics and Logic group
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A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Helen Beebee (University of Manchester)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: The Genesis of Lewis鈥檚 Counterfactual Analysis of Causation Abstract: Lewis presented a prototype counterfactual analysis of causation back in 1958 鈥� aged just 16 or 17 鈥� in the…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTITLE: Fundamentality Without Favouritism ABSTRACT: According to a widely endorsed conception of fundamentality, the fundamental is characterized in terms of a certain privileged relation or set of relations. On this…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Andrea Oliani (University of St. Andrews)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTITLE: Against Conservative Ontology ABSTRACT:聽In his recent book聽Objects: Nothing Out of the Ordinary聽(2015), Dan Z. Korman argues in favour of conservatism in metaphysics, that is, very roughly, that what we聽ordinarily聽take…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Kathrin Koslicki (Universit茅 de Neuch芒tel)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTITLE: Artifacts and the Limits of Human Creative Intentions ABSTRACT: According to Amie Thomasson鈥檚 author-intention-based account of artifacts, an artifact of kind K is essentially a product of a largely…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Thomas Randriamahazaka (University of St. Andrews)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Truthmaker semantics for containment and nonsense Abstract: Conceptivism is the doctrine according to which a proposition cannot entail another proposition if the latter contains a concept which is not…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Hitoshi Omori (Ruhr-Universit盲t Bochum)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: On American and Australian plans for negation Abstract: Francesco Berto, later joined by Greg Restall, defends a modal account of negation, or the Australian plan for negation. The aim…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Matteo Nizzardo and Jace Snodgrass (University of 58吃瓜)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Something Must Go Abstract:聽In this talk, we identify a tension between the intensional criterion of property identity and Leibniz鈥檚 Law. In particular, we argue that these two widely accepted…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Joaquim Giannotti (University of Birmingham)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Fundamentality and Humean Laws of Ground Abstract:聽What grounds facts of ground? Some metaphysicians invoke fundamental grounding laws to answer this question. These are general principles that link grounded facts…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar tba
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Metaphysics Seminar Aaron Cotnoir (University of 58吃瓜)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Partial identity and mereotopology Abstract: How should we think about the ways in which identity and parthood interact? One important line of thought comes from the joint influence of…
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Metaphysics Seminar Matthew Green (University of 58吃瓜)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Relevance in the Logic of Imagination Abstract: Reality-oriented mental simulation is a kind of imagination. The working assumption is that, when trying to determine whether a match would light…