For our third seminar on the theme of聽Dangerous Speech, Free Speech and Cancel Culture聽Nick Allen will be giving a work-in-progress presentation titled ‘Context-Collapsed Contributory Injustice: the Dangers of Misappropriating Speech…
Abstract:聽The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it introduces the concept logical akrasia (by analogy to epistemic akrasia). Second, it discusses how logical akrasia relates to the standards of…
Title: Ameliorative Skepticism and the Nature of Health Abstract: In this talk, I鈥檒l give a brief overview of the project I call 鈥榓meliorative skepticism鈥�. Sally Haslanger has argued that, in…
Title: On Beall and Camrud’s defence of the combinatorial argument for FDE Abstract:聽In their 2020 paper “FDE all the way up”, Beall and Camrud aim to defend a particular combinatorial…
Deborah Tollefsen’s “Can Groups Assert that P?”
Moral Philosophy Reading Group Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. Organizer: Theron…
For this session, Lara Jost will lead a discussion of the second chapter of Myisha Cherry’s new book ‘The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle’. Title:…
Abstract: What is the nature of one鈥檚 justification to use a logical principle such as Modus Ponens in reasoning? It is widely agreed amongst epistemologists of logic that such justification…
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