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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Claudio Calosi Title: How to Build Things from Atoms
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract: Mereological atomism is the thesis that everything is ultimately composed of atomic parts. Typically, this thesis is characterized by an axiom stating, more simply, that everything has atomic parts. The present paper argues that the success of the standard characterization crucially depends both on how the notion of composition is related to the notion…
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Language and Mind Seminar
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom -
Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Paul 脡gr茅 (Paris) & Cathal O’Madagain (Ben Gu茅rir): “Concept utility”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract. 鈥� Practices of concept-revision among scientists suggest that concepts can be improved. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union revised the concept PLANET so that it excluded Pluto, and insisting that the result was an improvement. But what could it mean for one concept or conceptual scheme to be better than another? Here we draw…
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CEPPA Talk – Martin Smith
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Feminist Philosophy & Social Theory Seminar
Katharina Bernhard
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Super Special Seminar tba
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom -
CEPPA Talk – Martin Smith (Edinburgh)
Title: ‘Lexical Priority, Decision Theory and De Minimis Risk’ Abstract: Say that one moral requirement takes lexical priority聽over another just in case violations of the former can never be outweighed or counterbalanced by violations of the latter.聽While lexical priority is arguably a feature of many ethical systems, attempts to model it within the framework of…
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Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA!). Talk: Martin Smith (Edinburgh)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom -
Medieval Logic Seminar: John Dumbleton on Insolubles
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom