Memory and the feeling of pastness Recent accounts of episodic memory have revived some ideas familiar from the 鈥榚mpiricist theory of memory鈥�, which go back at least as far as Hume. New versions of the empiricist theory cite two separate bodies of recent research in psychology in support of thinking of episodic memory along empiricist…
Title: Phallicism as Racism against the Male Target: Dehumanization, Misandric Aggression, and the Splitting of Gender. Abstract: Much of the current theory explaining the vulnerability of racialized outgroup males focus on death. In Adam Jones鈥檚 (2000) account of gendercide as well as Jim Sidanius鈥檚 (1999) theory of Social Dominance, outgroup or subordinate males become specifically…
Janina Hosiasson鈥檚 logic of rational degrees of belief: subjective probability before and after Ramsey Abstract: In 1931, Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum proposed a proto-decision-theoretic answer to the value of evidence problem, originally posed by C. D. Broad and eventually solved by I. J. Good in the context of Savage鈥檚 decision theory. As an influence on her paper…
Topic: Writing the history of women in analytic philosophy – how and why?
Speaker: Viviane Fairbank (58吃瓜 & Stirling) Should Science Journalists Know About Science? Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, many journalists in the 2000s reported on one researcher鈥檚 unfounded claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. They treated the issue as an open question that required equal consideration of 鈥渂oth sides鈥�: those…
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Title: Some Thoughts on Victimhood and Feminism Abstract: In her book Conflict Is Not Abuse (2016), Sarah Schulman argues that, in many domains of public and private life, false accusations of harm allow (groups of) people to conflate 鈥渃onflict,鈥� which is quotidian, and 鈥渁buse,鈥� which is more problematic but infrequent. The general tendency to mis-identify…
Title: ‘Logic and Inference in the Sender-Receiver Model’ Abstract: Logic, inference, language 鈥� somehow these are all connected. But how? One of David Lewis鈥檚 goals in his book聽Convention聽(1969)聽was to answer this question. There, he presented what is now known as the sender-receiver model of communication, and he revealed how conventionally meaningful communication might come about.…
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