• Language and Mind seminar: Ethan Landes (University of Zürich)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Titile: Can Someone Be a Semantic Externalist Experimental Philosopher? Abstract: Among experimental philosophy of language, semantic internalism is not merely the dominant metasemantic view – it is universal. Experimental philosophers of language take the target of their inquiry to be wholly mind-dependent and revealed by participant responses to survey questions. At the same time, some…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Isaac Wilhelm (National University of Singapore)

    Title: Talk About Types Abstract: Many metaphysical theories of identity, existence, and so on, are formulated using higher-order languages like the simply typed lambda calculus. But as I argue, for the purposes of metaphysical theorizing, a different language would be better: the calculus of constructions. Since this language—like many pure type systems—allows for quantification over…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

      Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk

  • Unity Pre-Reading: Natural Concepts & Convexity

    Arché Seminar Room 17-19 College Street, 58³Ô¹Ï

    Hernández-Conde, José V. (2017). A case against convexity in conceptual spaces. Synthese 194 (10):4011-4037. https://philpapers.org/rec/HERACA-2

  • FPST Reading Group – Midnight Sun

    Online via Teams

    You are cordially invited to join us on a cover-to-cover reading of Meyer’s 2020 Midnight Sun. The meeting will be online, and the session will be around 60 minutes. The plan is to discuss the book’s first five chapters, as well as set up a plan and dates for our next sessions. If you want to…