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ABSTRACT. 鈥斅燛vidence matters in philosophy: the concept of evidence is central to both epistemology and the philosophy of science. Outside philosophy, the concept of evidence is highly employed as well: lawyers, judges, historians and scientists, investigative journalists and reporters, as well as ordinary folk in the course of everyday life talk and think about evidence… |
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Abstract: In contemporary analytic epistemology, emotions are usually not considered to be a good justification for an agent鈥檚 belief, in the same way perception, memory, reasoning or testimony are, due to emotions facing issues when it comes to being reliable and sensitive to defeaters. In this talk, I argue that this problem can be overcome…
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Title: Discrimination at the Border Abstract: In selecting among prospective immigrants, it is widely accepted that states are morally permitted to differentiate on the basis of skill. By contrast, differentiating among prospective immigrants on the basis of (perceived) traits such as race, ethnicity, or religion is widely held to amount to wrongful discrimination. I argue… |
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Title: The Genesis of Lewis鈥檚 Counterfactual Analysis of Causation Abstract: Lewis presented a prototype counterfactual analysis of causation back in 1958 鈥� aged just 16 or 17 鈥� in the very first undergraduate philosophy essay he ever wrote. I place this paper in its historical context, relating it to the state of the debate at… |
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ABSTRACT. 鈥斅燭BA ZOOM INFO Meeting ID:聽892 5895 0975 Password:聽ACEW21 Invite link:聽here |
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Title: ‘Should Responsibility Affect Who Gets a Kidney?’ Abstract: About 98,000 people in the US are waiting for a kidney transplant, but only around 20,000 kidneys become available each year. As a result, doctors sometimes have to decide who gets a kidney. Many people (though few medical providers) hold that, when two patients need the… |
4 events,DESCRIPTION Conceptual engineering focuses on how best to assess and improve our conceptual apparatuses. In less than half a decade, it has become a central topic of contemporary analytic philosophy. Current work in conceptual engineering goes in two main directions. Case study research, on the one hand, which focuses on specific concepts and then…
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Abstract:聽Novelty鈥攗nderstood as the value of saying something new鈥攁ppears to be a good-making feature of a philosophical contribution. Beyond this, however, novelty functions as a marker of philosophical success: contributions that say something new are considered successful, while contributions that do not say something new are considered unsuccessful. When novelty serves as a marker and metric…
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Title: ‘Challenging the Pursuit of Novelty’ Abstract: Novelty鈥攗nderstood as the value of saying something new鈥攁ppears to be a good-making feature of a philosophical contribution. Beyond this, however, novelty functions as a marker of philosophical success: contributions that say something new are considered successful, while contributions that do not say something new are considered unsuccessful. When… |
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TITLE: Fundamentality Without Favouritism ABSTRACT: According to a widely endorsed conception of fundamentality, the fundamental is characterized in terms of a certain privileged relation or set of relations. On this conception, something is fundamental just in case it is unexplained relative to a unique privileged relation or a privileged set of relations. Let us say… |
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ABSTRACT. 鈥斅燱e are living in times where there is considerable debate over what sex and gender are and who gets to be of what sex and what gender. These are questions that impact people’s lives greatly, some more than others. They are metaphysical questions but they also concern what principles we should be guided by… |
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Abstract: In supplementing the familiar ways that our interpersonal relationships are morally fraught, recent work in epistemology on doxastic wronging has highlighted how these relationships can be epistemically fraught as well. However, in focusing predominantly on beliefs鈥� mental states that arguably constitute a small fraction of our mental lives鈥攖hese theories have their own theoretical blindspots.…
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Title: ‘Normative Expectations’ Abstract: In supplementing the familiar ways that our interpersonal relationships are morally fraught, recent work in epistemology on doxastic wronging has highlighted how these relationships can be epistemically fraught as well. However, in focusing predominantly on beliefs鈥� mental states that arguably constitute a small fraction of our mental lives鈥攖hese theories have their… |
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2021 Knox Lecture (online via Teams) Knox Lecturer: Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Title: Further Reflections on Tolerance and its Difficulty Abstract: The paper revisits the account of tolerance discussed in the author鈥檚 paper, 鈥淭he Difficulty of Tolerance,鈥� with the aim of clarifying (1) the reasons people have to care about the character of their society… |
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TITLE: Against Conservative Ontology ABSTRACT:聽In his recent book聽Objects: Nothing Out of the Ordinary聽(2015), Dan Z. Korman argues in favour of conservatism in metaphysics, that is, very roughly, that what we聽ordinarily聽take there to be is true. Especially, we are right about how many objects there are and what these objects are supposed to be. Korman takes… |
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ABSTRACT. 鈥斅營 propose to re-conceive the debate on natural kinds from the perspective of conceptual engineering. I take 鈥榥atural鈥� kinds in a broadly naturalist way, seeing a continuity between philosophical thinking and empirical inquiry in the natural sciences. This naturalist take on natural kinds recognizes that an important part of good scientific research is continual… |
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Title: The Permissibility of Lesser Evil Abstract: Flood:聽聽 Flood water is headed toward a cave where five innocent people are trapped and will be killed if the water reaches them. The water can be diverted into a mineshaft, but innocent Betty is trapped in the mineshaft and will be killed if the water is redirected.… |
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Abstract: Discussions in a variety of contexts (including at least epistemic injustice, moral encroachment, epistemic obligations of friendship) sometimes assume that speakers have a right or moral entitlement to be believed when they assert or testify that p: that they are wronged if their audience fails to believe them. It is controversial whether rights of…
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Title: ‘Are We Entitled to Be Believed?’ Abstract: Discussions in a variety of contexts (including at least epistemic injustice, moral encroachment, epistemic obligations of friendship) sometimes assume that speakers have a right or moral entitlement to be believed聽when they assert or testify that聽p: that they are聽wronged聽if their audience fails to believe them. It is controversial… |
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TITLE: Artifacts and the Limits of Human Creative Intentions ABSTRACT: According to Amie Thomasson鈥檚 author-intention-based account of artifacts, an artifact of kind K is essentially a product of a largely successful intention to create something of kind K (see, e.g., Thomasson (2003), 鈥淩ealism and Human Kinds鈥�, Philosophy and聽Phenomenological Research, Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 592-602).… |
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Joint work w/ Lorena Ram铆rez-Lude帽a (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) ABSTRACT. 鈥斅燱e will discuss two different phenomena of language usage that we have characterized in past work as flexibility and tolerance. We will examine their relation, or lack thereof, to conceptual engineering and we will apply the distinctions discussed to the specific case of the legal… |
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Abstract: When a person has evidence about their capacity to assess the evidence for or against a proposition, for example, when they have evidence that their assessment is subject to bias, they have higher-order evidence. A popular view in epistemology is that higher-order evidence can make a difference to whether it is rational for a… |
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