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  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Roy Sorenson

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

    Title: Mini-Meno: How to Get More Out of Your Transmission Abstract:聽My positive thesis is that competent deduction can add justification not already present in the premise 鈥� contrary to a tradition inaugurated by Plato鈥檚 dialogue Meno. My negative thesis is there is a novel counter-example to Counter-closure. According to this conservative principle, if you now…

  • Language and Mind Seminar | Emilia Wilson

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

    Abstract: In this presentation I explore the harm of positive assault portrayals, which refer to depictions of sexual assault in which the victim is shown to initially refuse some sexual contact but subsequently change their mind or enjoy the assault. I propose that, contrary to some popular feminist analyses, the significance of positive assault portrayals…

  • Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽Helen De Cruz (St Louis): “Ameliorative genealogy and hunter-gatherer philosophies”

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

    Abstract. 鈥� According to Mary Midgley (1919鈥�2018), philosophy is like plumbing: “Each system supplies vital needs for those who live above it. Each is hard to repair when it does go wrong, because neither of them was ever consciously planned as a whole鈥�. In her view, philosophy responds to basic needs that are fundamental to…

  • CEPPA Talk

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  • CEPPA Talk – Kieran Setiya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

    Title: ‘What is Morality?’ Abstract:聽In 鈥淢odern Moral Philosophy,鈥� Anscombe argued that the moral vocabulary does not correspond to any concept of Aristotelian ethics, that it derives from a confused response to the ethics of divine of command, and that it is literally meaningless. This essay contends that Anscombe was wrong. Morality corresponds to Aristotle鈥檚 general…