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  • Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽Hasok Chang (Cambridge): “Re-engineering Natural Kinds”

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

    ABSTRACT. 鈥斅營 propose to re-conceive the debate on natural kinds from the perspective of conceptual engineering. I take 鈥榥atural鈥� kinds in a broadly naturalist way, seeing a continuity between philosophical thinking and empirical inquiry in the natural sciences. This naturalist take on natural kinds recognizes that an important part of good scientific research is continual…

  • CEPPA Talk – Jonathan Quong (University of Southern California)

    Title: The Permissibility of Lesser Evil Abstract: Flood:聽聽 Flood water is headed toward a cave where five innocent people are trapped and will be killed if the water reaches them. The water can be diverted into a mineshaft, but innocent Betty is trapped in the mineshaft and will be killed if the water is redirected.…

  • Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Renee Bolinger (Princeton) “Are We Entitled to Be Believed?”

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

    Abstract: Discussions in a variety of contexts (including at least epistemic injustice, moral encroachment, epistemic obligations of friendship) sometimes assume that speakers have a right or moral entitlement to be believed when they assert or testify that p: that they are wronged if their audience fails to believe them. It is controversial whether rights of…

  • CEPPA Talk – Renee Bolinger (Princeton University)

    Title: ‘Are We Entitled to Be Believed?’ Abstract: Discussions in a variety of contexts (including at least epistemic injustice, moral encroachment, epistemic obligations of friendship) sometimes assume that speakers have a right or moral entitlement to be believed聽when they assert or testify that聽p: that they are聽wronged聽if their audience fails to believe them. It is controversial…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Kathrin Koslicki (Universit茅 de Neuch芒tel)

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

    TITLE: 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 successful intention to create something of kind K (see, e.g., Thomasson (2003), 鈥淩ealism and Human Kinds鈥�, Philosophy and聽Phenomenological Research, Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 592-602).…