Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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.’Â (Link here:Â https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pq/pqad092/7287044) Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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…
TITLE:Â Probabilistic Arbitrary Reference ABSTRACT:Â 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…
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.
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)…
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…
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