• Language and Mind seminar: Stefano Pugnaghi (University of 58³Ô¹Ï)

    Online Meeting via Teams

    Title: Alethic Pluralism and the Meaning of “True” Abstract: Alethic pluralism is the view that there are many ways for truth-bearers to be true since different properties realise truth in different domains. Thus, especially in its strong version, pluralism amounts to the claim that the notion of truth we ordinarily employ is actually directly linked with a…

  • FPST Seminar – Cael Keegan (Carelton University) [online only]

    Online via Teams

    Title: How to do things with ‘trans’ Abstract: What is the conceptual formation trans, and what can it do? While transgender studies is oriented against providing definitive answers, the field does possess a history and an emergent set of critical tools, both similar to and yet divergent from the more institutionally embraced field of queer studies. Drawing on Susan Stryker’s…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Aybüke Özgün (University of Amsterdam)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Title: Beliefs based on conflicting and uncertain evidence: connecting Dempster-Shafer theory and the topology of evidence Abstract: One problem to solve in the context of information fusion, decision-making, and other artificial intelligence challenges is to compute justified beliefs based on evidence. In real-life examples, this evidence may be inconsistent, incomplete, or uncertain, making the problem…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam & 58³Ô¹Ï)

    Edgecliffe G03

    Speaker: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam & 58³Ô¹Ï) A Foucauldian critique of the epistemic injustice research program  Catarina Dutilh Novaes (joint work with Merel Talbi and Solmu Anttila) Since the publication of Fricker’s groundbreaking Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007), vibrant debates on the complex relations between knowledge, ethics and power have ensued, arguably…

  • 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 we will meet to discuss Joel Joseph‘s work-in-progress paper ‘The Problem of Secondary Permissibility’ (email jj73@st-andrews.ac.uk for a copy of the paper) Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk