• Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

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

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

    This week Victor Tardos will be leading an in-person discussion of Sameer Bajaj and Patrick Tomlin’s article ‘Consenting Under Coercion: The Partial Validity Account.’ (Link here: https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pq/pqad092/7287044) Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk

  • CANCELLED CEPPA Talk (in person) – Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)

    Edgecliffe 104

    Title: Consent, Intent, and Communication What is consent? I will assume that it is a normative power – a power to alter rights and duties directly. If this is right, how is consent exercised? I will argue that consent is exercised through the execution of intentions to alter practical reasoning. Successful communication is not needed…

  • Language and Mind seminar: Matteo Nizzardo (University of 58³Ô¹Ï)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    TITLE: Probabilistic Arbitrary Reference ABSTRACT: Arbitrary Reference is the idea that we can refer to individual entities with some degree of arbitrariness. Although there are different accounts of Arbitrary Reference, nearly all of them can be challenged on the basis that they entail the existence of free-floating semantic facts, namely: semantic facts which are not grounded in…

  • FPST Seminar (in person) – Miguel de la Cal Moreno (reading group)

    Edgecliffe G03

    This week we will be doing a reading group on Lorna Finlayson’s ‘There Is No Alternative: Constructiveness and Political Criticism’, chapter one of her book ‘The Political is Political’. Get in touch for a copy of the reading.

  • Book Workshop (in person) – Daniel Muñoz (UNC Chapel Hill)

    Workshop on Daniel Muñoz’s forthcoming book What We Owe to Ourselves Date: 15 May 2024 Location: Edgecliffe 104 Registration required: email Theron Pummer (tgp4@st-andrews.ac.uk)   Provisional Schedule  945am: Coffee/tea, welcome 10am: Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech) 1115am: Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt University) 1225pm: Lunch 130pm: Quinn White (Harvard University) 240pm: Coffee/tea 300pm: Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queen’s University) 415pm: Joseph Bowen (University of Leeds)…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Sabina Domínguez Parrado (University of 58³Ô¹Ï and University of Amsterdam)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Title: A New Problem for Logical Contextualism Abstract: Logical contextualism is the view that ‘valid’ is a context-sensitive expression. One key reason to endorse logical contextualism is that, unlike traditional forms of logical pluralism, it can avoid the so-called collapse problem. Logical contextualism relies on the crucial assumption that each conversational context determines a uniquely appropriate logical consequence…