Speaker: Roy Sorensen (UT Austin & 58吃瓜) Modesty is a Contagious Blindspot I am modest about my spelling accuracy. Oops, I cannot consistently believe that! Modesty about my spelling entails I underestimate my spelling. If I indeed underestimate my spelling accuracy, then my ignorance about spelling accuracy is contagious. For if I believe you…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Douven, Igor & G盲rdenfors, Peter (2019). What are natural concepts? A design perspective. Mind and Language (3):313-334. https://philpapers.org/archive/DOUWAN.pdf
Title: Pleasure Fundamentalism Abstract: Pleasure fundamentalism is the view that moral value is the same thing as pleasure and this explains all other moral facts. This talk presents two arguments for pleasure fundamentalism and discusses the form of naturalism they arise from. According to the Reliability Argument, all processes generating moral belief are unreliable, except…
The event is hybrid and open to philosophy faculty and students outside 58吃瓜. Remote participants can access the teams link by requesting it from Patrick Winther-Larsen (pjwl@st-andrews.ac.uk)聽or Jessica Brown (jab30@st-andrews.ac.uk). Speakers: Endre Begby (Simon Fraser University) Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern/58吃瓜) Joshua Habgood-Coote (Leeds) Chris Kelp (Glasgow) Julia Staffel (Colorado) Elise Woodard (KCL, London) Programme:…
Title: Depression and the Open Future Abstract: We intuitively think that the past is fixed or closed whereas the future is open. In a phenomenological description of depression, however, depressed subjects often report that the future is closed. Our na茂ve view of the open future thus seems to be impaired. What makes the depressed subjects…
Title: Are kids oppressed? Child liberation beyond equal rights Abstract: Thinking about childhood often has a paradoxical quality. Children and young people are at once idealised and demonised. Childhood is romanticised in memory and imagination at the same time as it is the receptacle for our deepest traumas. The idea of children as an oppressed…
Title:聽“Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem” Abstract:聽Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of “categorical inequality.” In this framework, entire social groups enjoy superior power, social esteem, and wealth over other groups: aristocrats over commoners, men over women, blacks over whites in the U.S., Brahmins over Dalits in…