• Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Soroush Rafiee Rad, “Probabilities with Gaps and Gluts”

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Belnap-Dunn logic (BD), sometimes also known as First Degree Entailment, is a four-valued propositional logic that complements the classical truth values ofTrueandFalsewith two non-classical truth valuesNeitherandBoth. The latter two are to account for the possibility of the available information being incomplete or providing contradictory evidence. We present a probabilistic extension of BD that permits agents…

  • Cover-to-cover Reading Group

    CEPPA/Arch矇 Seminar room 17 19 College Street, 58勛圖, United Kingdom

    This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)

  • ECT Seminar

    Edgecliffe G03
  • ECT Seminar

    Edgecliffe G03

    Amiya Haskes (58勛圖) Title TBC

  • CEPPA Climate Ethics Talk (in-person) – Matthew Brander (University of Edinburgh)

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Responsibility, Causality, and Carbon Accounting Abstract: Carbon accounting standards hold companies accountable (i.e. responsible) for the greenhouse gas emissions from their value chains, but what is the basis for this allocation of responsibility? There may be a partial causal logic that underpins this assignment of responsibility, but this is not explicitly reflected on or…

  • Unity Seminar: Will Moorfoot (UCL) “Morphing Ground”

    Edgecliffe G03

      Abstract: Grounding and causation are both determination relations. Causation is typically understood to relate events through time, such that causes determine their effects. The throwing of the rock causes the window to break. Grounding is typically understood to relate facts at a single time, such that grounds determine their groundees. The microphysical constitution of…