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Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave, Insolubles
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Metaphysics Seminar Francisca Silva (University of 58吃瓜)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Sets as fusions of materially-equivalent rigid embodiments Abstract: Albeit having some initial plausibility, most philosophers today would reject the thesis that members of sets are parts of sets, instead following Lewis (1991, 1993) in taking sets and classes more generally to have only their subclasses as parts, with singletons being mereologically atomic. Against this…
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Epistemology Seminar: Jane Friedman (NYU) “The Aim of Inquiry?”
Abstract: It is said that inquiry has an aim, though it’s not entirely clear how we should think about this claim. What, in general, does it mean to say that the activity of inquiry has an aim? In this talk I go through a few options and think about them within the context of the…
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CEPPA Talk 鈥� Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
Climate Change, COVID-19, Justice, and Quality of Life Abstract:聽Justice would appear to require that those who are the principal beneficiaries of a history of economic and political behavior that has resulted in harmful global climate change should bear a correspondingly large share of the burden in contending with these harms worldwide. At the same time,…
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Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave, Insolubles
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom -
Metaphysics Seminar Anna-Sofia Maurin (University of Gothenburg)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomFlatworldism: A (Reluctant) Defense Flatworldism is a view on the nature of reality according to which reality lacks a certain kind of 鈥� hierarchical 鈥� structure. Prima facie what this means is that reality鈥檚 inhabitants are not sub-dividable into the more and less fundamental such that what is more fundamental (at least sometimes) makes what…
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Language & Mind Seminar: Jean Gov茅 (58吃瓜)
Cognitive Acquaintance: A Non-Causal Alternative Within literature on singular thought and reference, acquaintance is one of the 鈥榦rthodox鈥� ways successful reference is achieved. Generally speaking, an acquaintance theory articulates that there must be some relation existing between subject and object. While the notion has developed significantly since Russell鈥檚 articulation of it, today the acquaintance relation…