Girlhood Stories: What can(鈥榯) stories about girls do? The St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies is delighted that Catherine Mackenzie will be delivering the StAIGS Seminar on Thursday the 16th of November. The talk is titled: Girlhood Stories: What can(鈥榯) stories about girls do? The abstract is copied below. The talk will take place from 4pm to…
Title: Philosophical foundations for radical love Abstract: Much recent philosophical work on love seeks to understand it as a fitting response to the value of those we love, with such accounts typically being articulated in terms of 鈥榬easons for love鈥�. Debates in this area have been animated by a couple of challenges: first, to explain…
Title: Ontology of Some Philosophy Abstract: When philosophers discuss philosophical views, theories, or arguments, their discussion is often not metaphysically innocent. Given certain substantial but widely accepted assumptions concerning relativization of truth, the worlds framework, and understanding ontological issues in terms of domains of discourse (see Three Insights below), it can be argued that the…
Title: Vague Mereology and Supervaluationism Abstract: What is the referent of 鈥楳t Everest鈥�, 鈥楨dinburgh鈥�, and even of 鈥楳eta鈥� and 鈥楳ark Zuckerberg鈥�? Like dust, vagueness 鈥榞ets into everything鈥� (Dummett, 1995, p. 207) but, unlike dust, it is often taken to be only a semantic phenomenon. Standard supervaluationist accounts explain failures of reference fixing by appealing to…
We will be reading Z. Quanbeck & A. Worsnip’s 鈥淎 Permissivist Alternative to Encroachment,鈥� Philosophers鈥� Imprint (forthcoming).
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
This week we will discuss Guy Kahane‘s article ‘Our Cosmic Insignificance‘ Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 Title: Is the future a utility monster? Abstract: I will revisit Nozick鈥檚 utility monster thought experiment and draw an analogy between imagined utility monsters and the long-term future. I argue that the far future can be seen as a real-life utility monster. This is the case if the three premises that form the…
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