Title: Intensional Subject-Matter in Subsystems of Analytic Implication Abstract: Although one tends to think of truth or falsity as the predominant semantic feature with which logic is concerned, a number of logics exist that give the feature of topic or subject-matter equal weight. Just as we expect compositional truth conditions to extend to the entirety…
Pain, Painfulness, and Evaluation In this talk, I survey the increasingly rich, contemporary debate about the nature of pain and its unpleasantness.聽 Along the way, I highlight some of the advantages of my evaluativist view, and, against the messenger-shooting objection, I argue that evaluativism can accommodate the non-instrumental badness of unpleasant pain.
Moral Philosophy Reading Group Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
Abstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of聽extractivist epistemology聽as a way to think through the effect of colonialism on knowing practices. Extractivist epistemologies work analogously to extractivist capitalism: seeking an epistemic resource of some sort—such as a piece of pharmacological knowledge held by an indigenous community or…
Event co-Hosted with ECT and FPST. Title: Extractivist epistemologies Abstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of extractivist epistemology as a way to think through the effect of colonialism on knowing practices. Extractivist epistemologies work analogously to extractivist capitalism: seeking an epistemic resource of some sort—such as…
Title: The Access Problem for Act-type Theories of Propositions Abstract: Recent work on propositions has seen the rise of act-type theories, according to which propositions are types of cognitive acts that derive their representational and truth-conditional properties from the token cognitive acts of agents. Act-type theories have been gaining traction as part of a rejection…
Pluralist Meta-ethical Constructivism and Feminist Social Construction: Meta-ethical Constructivism holds that ethics is grounded upon shared values between agents in a society. In this sense a Constructivist thinks there are correct moral procedures dictated from the 鈥榤oral point of view鈥� (Street, 2008/2010), the following of which both gives answers to moral questions and justifies the…
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