This week Victor Tardos will be leading an in-person discussion of Sameer Bajaj and Patrick Tomlin’s article ‘Consenting Under Coercion: The Partial Validity Account.’聽(Link here:聽https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pq/pqad092/7287044) Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams…
Title: Consent, Intent, and Communication What is consent? I will assume that it is a normative power 鈥� a power to alter rights and duties directly. If this is right,…
TITLE:聽Probabilistic Arbitrary Reference ABSTRACT:聽Arbitrary Reference is the idea that we can refer to individual entities with some degree of arbitrariness. Although there are different accounts of Arbitrary Reference, nearly all…
This week we will be doing a reading group on Lorna Finlayson’s ‘There Is No Alternative: Constructiveness and Political Criticism’, chapter one of her book ‘The Political is Political’. Get…
Workshop on Daniel Mu帽oz’s forthcoming book聽What We Owe to Ourselves Date:聽15 May聽2024 Location:聽Edgecliffe 104 Registration required:聽email Theron Pummer (tgp4@st-andrews.ac.uk) 聽 Provisional Schedule聽 945am: Coffee/tea, welcome 10am: Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech)…
Title:聽A New Problem for Logical Contextualism Abstract:聽Logical contextualism is the view that 鈥榲alid鈥� is a context-sensitive expression. One key reason to endorse logical contextualism is that, unlike traditional forms of…
Speaker: Roy Sorensen (UT Austin & 58吃瓜) Modesty is a Contagious Blindspot I am modest about my spelling accuracy. Oops, I cannot consistently believe that! Modesty about my spelling…
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