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Super Special Seminar tba
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Epistemology Seminar. Talk: Philip Ebert (Stirling) and Martin Smith (Edinburgh): “Varieties of Risk”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract: The notion of risk plays a central role in economics, finance, health, psychology, law and elsewhere, and is prevalent in managing challenges and resources in day-to-day life. In recent work, Duncan Pritchard (2015, 2016) has argued against the orthodox probabilistic conception of risk on which the risk of a hypothetical scenario is determined by…
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Medieval Logic Seminar: John Dumbleton on Insolubles
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Sean Walsh (University of California, Los Angeles)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Modeling contingently existing propositions (and other intensions). Abstract: The traditional Montagovian framework for the analysis of intensional language uses constant domain models. However, in other areas of philosophy which employ modal logic, it is much more common to use variable domain models which permit various forms of contingent existence. Part of the difficulty in…
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Language and Mind Seminar | Savvas Ioannou
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth): “How should we think about linguistic function?”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract. 鈥� Talk of function often plays a central role in work on conceptual engineering. An appeal to functions can provide much needed standards for evaluating and constructing concepts, according to how well they fulfill their functions, and whether those functions are desirable. However, there has also been a great deal of skepticism about the…
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Metaphysics of Mind Workshop
A virtual workshop by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomThere are various recent theories of what is the relationship between the mental and the physical (such as grounding theories and panpsychism). This workshop is an opportunity to explore new theories and arguments concerning the metaphysics of the mind. This could be about mental properties in general or a specific kind of mental properties (e.g.,…
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