Title:?Respect, Religion, and Feminism: Political Liberalism as Feminist Liberalism? Abstract:?This chapter considers whether political liberalism, specifically, can be used for feminist ends. There is significant disagreement among feminists and liberals about the compatibility between their two doctrines. Political liberalism is vulnerable to particular criticism from feminists, who argue that its restricted form of equality is…
Title:?What do we?mean? Semantics, Practices and Pluralism ? Abstract:?In this informal talk, I will revisit some longstanding issues in philosophical logic in the light of some contemporary developments.? ? The longstanding issues? (1) Michael Dummett＊s challenge in?The Logical Basis of Metaphysics?to the effect that to get anywhere in fundamental issues of metaphysics we would do…
Mormann, Thomas (2009). New Work for Carnap＊s Quasi-Analysis. Journal of Philosophical Logic 38 (3):249-282. https://philpapers.org/rec/MORNWF-2 ALT: Decock, Lieven & Douven, Igor (2011). Similarity After Goodman. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 2 (1):61-75. https://philpapers.org/rec/DECSAG
You are cordially invited to join us on a cover-to-cover reading of Meyer’s 2020?Midnight Sun. The meeting will be online. We will discuss chapters 5-10. Still, even if you don’t manage to catch up on the reading, you’re still more than welcome to show up! If you want to sign up get in touch with…
Chinese Cinema: Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Mint on Tour ※情盡豜堁俴挐桯數赫§is a touring programme of Chinese cinema coming to Scotland this Autumn. The programme is presented by MINT Chinese Film Festival (MINT CFF) x Aya Films and is a mix of contemporary, classic and short Chinese films made by and about women. The…
TALK+SCREENING Date: Wednesday 11th of September Place: School V Time: From 4 to 5.30 Organised by the Centre for Screen Cultures (CSC), the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) and the 58勛圖 Institute for Gender Studies (StAIGS) Invited speaker: Miguel Errazu (Universidad Aut車noma de Madrid) Convener: Isabel Segu赤 (Dept Film Studies and…
Abstract: Even if philosophers can＊t agree on whether to locate the source of vagueness in the world, in our language, or in our knowledge, we can agree that at least some ordinary mereological claims are vague. For some candidate vague object, like Edinburgh or Mt Everest, ?we may regard some of its parts as being…