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Abstract: This talk聽develops ontological pluralism about non-being, the view that there are multiple ways, kinds, or modes of non-being. I suggest that the view is both more plausible and defensible than it first seems, and that it has many useful applications across a wide variety of metaphysical and explanatory problems. After drawing out the relationship… |
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*** SESSION RESTRICTED TO ARCH脡 MEMBERS *** Abstract. 鈥斅燭his paper advertises the importance of distinguishing three different foundational projects concerning the epistemic, which we call normative epistemic inquiry, metaepistemic inquiry, and the conceptual ethics of epistemology. We argue that these projects can be distinguished by their contrasting constitutive success conditions. We argue further that because… |
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Title: ‘Group Motivation’ Abstract: We routinely treat groups, including governments and corporations, as agents with beliefs and aims who are morally responsible for their actions. For instance, we might blame an oil company for an oil spill pointing out that they knew the risk of their profits-first policies. In this paper I discuss a key…
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Title: ‘How To Be a Pluralist About Gender’ Abstract: There are various of attractive accounts of gender kinds on offer (Haslanger 2012, Asta 2018), as well as accounts of the ontology of human social kinds (or social groups) more broadly (Mallon 2016, Ritchie 2020) that are much more conducive to feminist aims than a lot… |
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Title: How Serious is Serious Actualism? Abstract:聽Serious Actualism is a view which many find compelling: it is impossible for an object to exemplify a property and not exist. In this talk, I aim to do two things. First, I argue that there are compelling reasons for thinking that there is a property of nonexistence and… |
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Abstract. 鈥斅燭he DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is a classification of mental disorders. It is published by the American Psychiatric Association and revised by committees of psychiatrists ever fifteen years or so. This talk considers the DSM as a 鈥榗onceptual building site鈥�. For successful conceptual engineering to be possible we would need… |
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This event is part of the StAIGS Internal Speaker Series. The topic for 4 November is Climate Crisis, and our speakers will be Catherine Jones (IR) and Samuel Woolhead (Transition). The format for the Internal Speaker Series is a “brown bag” lunch seminar, of approximately an hour, from 1 to 2 pm, now held… |
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Title: Essence, Potentiality, and Modality Abstract: According to essentialism, metaphysical modality is founded in the essences聽of things, where the essence of a thing is roughly akin to its real definition.聽According to potentialism (also known as dispositionalism), metaphysical聽modality is founded in the聽potentialities of things, where a potentiality is聽roughly the generalized notion of a disposition. Essentialism and… |
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Abstract: This paper investigates the norm of presupposition, as one pervasive type of indirect speech act. It argues against the view that sees presuppositions as an indirect counterpart of the direct speech act of assertion and proposes instead that they are much more similar to the direct speech act of assumption. More concretely, it suggests…
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Abstract. 鈥斅燩recisifications of certain informal concepts could be thought of as instances of conceptual engineering: the concept of a Turing machine (human effective computability), the notion of a Kripke structure (possibility), the Kolmogorov axioms (probability), Tarski’s definition of truth in formal languages, to name just a few. Should we聽regard聽the technical notions these formalisms define as… |
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Title: ‘The Problem of Polarization’ Abstract: 鈥淭he cure for democracy’s ills is more democracy.鈥� This popular adage is false. Contemporary democracy faces problems that have their source in otherwise laudable forms of political participation. In short, enactments of democratic citizenship heighten our exposure to polarization, which in turn erodes our capacities to perform well as… |
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Title: Indicative Conditionals: Probabilities and Relevance Abstract:聽Adams鈥� Thesis claims that the acceptability of a simple indicative conditional equals聽the corresponding conditional probability. The Thesis is widely endorsed, but arguably false and refuted by empirical research. To fix it, we submit, we need a聽relevance constraint: we accept a simple conditional ‘If 蠒, then 蠄’ to the extent… |
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Abstract. 鈥� Let ‘epistemic concepts’ refer to those concepts which express the standards employed in epistemic assessment.聽聽 Such concepts offer an interesting test case for conceptual engineering.聽 On the one hand, they seem like they are tailor-made to be constructed聽de novo, answering to whichever of the varying interests we might have in epistemic evaluation.聽 On… |
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Title: ‘Conflict, Discord, and Strife’ Abstract: Given that interpersonal relationships are relationships between persons, we might hold out hope that a better philosophical understanding of the nature of persons can help us to better understand the structure and dynamics of interpersonal relationships. In this talk I will argue that this thought is correct. In particular,… |
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Title: “Good News for the Subregion Theory of Parthood” Abstract: The Subregion Theory of Parthood is probably the most intuitive theory of parthood. It says that whatever is exactly located at a subregion of your exact location is part of you, and nothing else is. Mutatis mutandisfor all material objects. I defend this view from… |
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Abstract. 鈥� This talk addresses methodological and political challenges of conceptual engineering in cross-cultural perspective. Based on four case studies of interdisciplinary (empirical and philosophical) research projects in Latin America and West Africa, the talk demonstrates the heterogeneity of epistemological and ontological perspectives of stakeholders and the often hidden politics of their inclusion/exclusion in the… |
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Abstract: The notion of risk plays a central role in economics, finance, health, psychology, law and elsewhere, and is prevalent in managing challenges and resources in day-to-day life. In recent work, Duncan Pritchard (2015, 2016) has argued against the orthodox probabilistic conception of risk on which the risk of a hypothetical scenario is determined by… |
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Title: Modeling contingently existing propositions (and other intensions). Abstract: The traditional Montagovian framework for the analysis of intensional language uses constant domain models. However, in other areas of philosophy which employ modal logic, it is much more common to use variable domain models which permit various forms of contingent existence. Part of the difficulty in… |
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Abstract. 鈥� Talk of function often plays a central role in work on conceptual engineering. An appeal to functions can provide much needed standards for evaluating and constructing concepts, according to how well they fulfill their functions, and whether those functions are desirable. However, there has also been a great deal of skepticism about the… |
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There are various recent theories of what is the relationship between the mental and the physical (such as grounding theories and panpsychism). This workshop is an opportunity to explore new theories and arguments concerning the metaphysics of the mind. This could be about mental properties in general or a specific kind of mental properties (e.g.,… |
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Abstract: This talk defends a contextualist theory of 鈥榢nowledge鈥� ascriptions. I argue that in some sentences, the implicit argument of 鈥榢nows鈥� is bound by a quantifier. The natural readings of these sentences can be generated by contextualist theories, but not by competing interest-relative theories of knowledge. In addition, I argue that the contextualist can explain…
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Title: ‘How to Be a Clever Contextualist’ Abstract: This talk defends a contextualist theory of 鈥榢nowledge鈥� ascriptions. I argue that in some sentences, the implicit argument of 鈥榢nows鈥� is bound by a quantifier. The natural readings of these sentences can be generated by contextualist theories, but not by competing interest-relative theories of knowledge. In addition,… |
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