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  • Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Nick Allen

    For our third seminar on the theme of聽Dangerous Speech, Free Speech and Cancel Culture聽Nick Allen will be giving a work-in-progress presentation titled ‘Context-Collapsed Contributory Injustice: the Dangers of Misappropriating Speech Online‘. Title:聽Context-Collapsed Contributory Injustice: the Dangers of Misappropriating Speech Online Abstract:聽The misappropriation of marginalised communities鈥� terminology by the wider public is a particularly modern and…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Frederik Andersen (58吃瓜) “Logical Akrasia”

    Abstract:聽The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it introduces the concept logical akrasia (by analogy to epistemic akrasia). Second, it discusses how logical akrasia relates to the standards of epistemic rationality, and in particular, how logical akrasia poses a challenge to the tenability of the controversial 铿亁ed point thesis.

  • CEPPA Talk 鈥� Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia)

    Title: Ameliorative Skepticism and the Nature of Health Abstract: In this talk, I鈥檒l give a brief overview of the project I call 鈥榓meliorative skepticism鈥�. Sally Haslanger has argued that, in doing social ontology, we can sometimes approach the question 鈥榳hat is x?鈥� by asking question 鈥榳hat do we want x to be?鈥�. I argue that…

  • Metaphysics Seminar Thomas Randriamahazaka (University of 58吃瓜)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom

    Title: On Beall and Camrud’s defence of the combinatorial argument for FDE Abstract:聽In their 2020 paper “FDE all the way up”, Beall and Camrud aim to defend a particular combinatorial argument for the paraconsistent and paracomplete logic FDE against a natural objection. The argument, roughly, states that, since logic must consider all possibilities, it is…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    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).

  • Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Lara Jost

    For this session, Lara Jost will lead a discussion of the second chapter of Myisha Cherry’s new book ‘The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle’. Title: Fitting Fury and Frightful Rage, Myisha Cherry Abstract: Chapter 2 argues that Lordean rage is an appropriate response to racial injustice and is more likely…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Corine Besson (Sussex) “Carroll鈥檚 Regress, Guidance and Explicit Representation”

    Abstract: What is the nature of one鈥檚 justification to use a logical principle such as Modus Ponens in reasoning? It is widely agreed amongst epistemologists of logic that such justification cannot be internalist. One key reason offered for this view is that internalist accounts of justification are susceptible to Carroll-style regresses. In this talk, I…