• Epistemology Seminar: Justin Snedegar (Marusic and White on Peer Disagreement)

    Online Meeting via Teams

    Justin Snedegar to lead discussion on “Disagreement and Alienation” by Marusic and White (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/phpe.12197) Abstract: This paper proposes to reorient the philosophical debate about peer disagreement. The problem of peer disagreement is normally seen as a problem about the extent to which disagreement provides one with evidence against ones own conclusions. It is thus regarded…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

    The brand-new PhiCliSci reading groupwill discuss Reto Knutti’s articleClimate Model Confirmation: From Philosophy to Predicting Climate in the Real World,available here. This will be in Edgecliffe G03, and online. Optional Further Readings for PhiCliSci Reading Group: Hawkins, E., and R. Sutton. 2009. The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions.Bulletin of the American Meteorological…

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) Katharina Bernhard (58勛圖) and Graeme MacGilchrist (58勛圖)

    The Stewart Room in Younger Hall Younger Hall, 58勛圖, United Kingdom

    Please join us on31 October (4-5.30pm) for the launch of the Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) working group, which will bring together philosophers and climate scientists to discuss central themes relating to the climate crisis. In the first session, climate scientistGraeme MacGilchristand philosopherKatharina Bernhardwill give presentations on the topic of Uncertainty in climate science, after…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Mark Jago (Nottingham) Tracking Conjunctions

    Edgecliffe G03

    Though faced with Kripkes clear knock-down objection, Dont be too quick with tracking-the-truth rejection. OK, one knows a red barn for its hue, Yet knows it not as a barn, though it be true. That may be so and yet we know some facts, Despite the chance were all just brains in vats. And tracking…