• CEPPA Talk (in person) – Bridget Bradley (58勛圖)

    This talk is part of our series on Climate Ethics. Title: Ethical births, ethical deaths: Climate anxiety in Britain through the life course Abstract: This paper is based on anthropological research conducted with climate activists on the topic of climate anxiety in Britain. Drawing on themes of kinship and its relationship to mental health and…

  • Language and Mind seminar: Roy Sorensen (University of 58勛圖 and UT Austin)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Title: Kant risk a lie! Abstract: Immanuel Kant says, lying is the chief sin against others, alongside robbery, murder and stuproviolatio. Kant never risks robbery, murder, or rape. But Kant does risk telling intentionally deceptive falsehoods. Instead of being a man a few words, Kant is a man of three million words. Equally revealing is…

  • FPST Seminar – Kate Manne (Cornell University) [online only]

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: The Authority of Hunger Abstract: In this talk, I canvass moral considerations that suggest that hunger is morally authoritative. What’s more, trying to circumvent our hunger via current surgical and pharmaceutical technologies is risky, unpleasant, and often ineffective. I conclude by considering the case for avoiding even “silver bullet” appetite suppressants, for the sake…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Zo矇 McConaughey (University of Lille)

    Online Meeting via Teams

    Title: History of logic as a tool for exploring the plurality of logical frameworks Abstract: I will outline another type of logical pluralism than the one now famously proposed by Beall and Restall (2006). I will argue that in addition to paying attention to particular logics, such as classical, intuitionnistic, relevance logics, etc., it is…

  • Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy XII

    Senate Room, St Mary's College South St, 58勛圖, Fife, United Kingdom

    9 MAY 11.00-11.15 Welcome 11.15-12.00 Helena Taylor (Exeter), Natural philosophy in the Early Modern French Salon: at the Crossroads of Science and Literature Chair: Mogens L疆rke (CNRS, Oxford/Lyon) 12.00-12.45 Emily Kent (Edinburgh), Practice Makes Pedagogy: Maignans Cursus philosophicus (1653) and the Institutionalization of Experimental Philosophy 12.45-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.00 Key Note. Antonio Salgardo Borge (Nottingham), Spinozas…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Jade Fletcher (58勛圖)

    Edgecliffe G03

    Speaker: Jade Fletcher (58勛圖) Practices, Normativity, and Ideological Construction: Conceptualizing Epistemic (In)Justice The aim of this exploratory paper is to put into dialogue two different threads in contemporary social philosophy. Charles Mills made a helpful interjection into the epistemic injustice literature when he suggested that the concept of ideology is valuable for analytic epistemologists.…