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  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Christopher J. Masterman (58吃瓜)

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Saying Something with Nothing Abstract: Ontological nihilism is the view that fundamentally there are no objects. Whilst it is an increasingly popular view, nihilists face a so-called expressive adequacy challenge. Standard natural and formal languages carve up the world into at least objects and properties/relations satisfied by those objects. But the nihilist doesn鈥檛 think…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism (joint work 聽with N. Pedersen) The dominant approach in the literature on risk is to adopt a monist stance by taking the probabilistic notion of risk to be the only proper notion. However, there is a growing philosophical literature on non-probabilistic notions of risk. In this…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

    This week we will discuss Cora Diamond’s classic paper ‘The Difficulty of Reality’. Location: Edgecliffe G03

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) 鈥� Katrin Flikschuh (LSE)

    Edgecliffe 104

    Title:聽The Idea of Ancestry in African Philosophy Abstract: This paper concerns itself with the rationality of belief in ancestral existence. Although belief in ancestral existence remains widespread globally, I shall focus on a-thinned out version of African forms of this belief. 鈥楾hinned-out鈥� in that I am not interested in this or that substantive version of…

  • FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language 鈥� one sees this in feminist work on pornography 鈥� or…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Dr Graziana Ciola (Radboud University, Nijmegen)

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Commitment Issues? Nominalism and the Semantics of Empty Terms (In Late-Medieval Logic) Abstract: Usually, the label “Nominalism” evokes sorne kind of ontological parsimony. Ockham’s Razor epitomizes this understanding of Nominalism: “it is pointless to do with more things what can be done with fewer”鈥攐r in a later formulation “entities should not be multiplied beyond…