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Title: Partial identity and mereotopology Abstract: How should we think about the ways in which identity and parthood interact? One important line of thought comes from the joint influence of the two Davids: Armstrong and Lewis. The underlying idea is that mereological overlap is a kind of identity 鈥� namely, partial identity. The aim of… |
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Aesthetic assertion, aesthetic knowledge, and acquaintance inference Simple aesthetic sentences normally give rise to an acquaintance inference (AI), inferences that the speaker has first-hand knowledge of the item being evaluated. For example, if I say,聽鈥淪atantango is a beautiful novel鈥�, my utterance suggests that I have read the book. How to explain AI? In this talk,… |
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4). |
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All Work and No Play
A workshop on the philosophy of work and time-allocation 聽 16-18 September , 2021 The Future of Work and Income Research Network聽 聽聽(fwistandrews@gmail.com) Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs Department of Philosophy, University of 58吃瓜 Workshop to be held entirely online Thursday 16th September 10.30am Welcome and introdution to the Future of Work…
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Abstract:聽We routinely ascribe belief and knowledge to groups, saying such things as that the government knew that the new strain of covid was especially transmissible, or that the government believed that restrictions on inbound travel to the country weren鈥檛 necessary despite the new strain. Many take such ascriptions to be literally true, and there has…
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TITLE: 鈥業nteractional Wrongs and Vices鈥� ABSTRACT: This paper explores a domain of action that we often regard as a minor moral matter, the domain of ordinary interactions. Yet, ordinary interactions are morally significant for two reasons: they are the primary vehicle through which 1) we show respect and disrespect for each other, and 2) we… |
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Title: Relevance in the Logic of Imagination Abstract: Reality-oriented mental simulation is a kind of imagination. The working assumption is that, when trying to determine whether a match would light if struck, one initially imagines striking the match and, together with relevant beliefs imported into the imaginative scenario, mentally simulates what would happen. But what… |
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The Causal Argument Against Representationalism The central argument against perceptual representationalism in my recent聽The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience聽was that representational聽states聽aren鈥檛 causally efficacious in the way that perceptual states are. In this talk I shall explore some further issues related to this argument, including the general question of the causal significance of representational states, and the… |
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Wild Animal Ethics Conference
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
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Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Emilia Wilson Dangerous Speech, Free Speech and Cancel Culture
Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Emilia Wilson Dangerous Speech, Free Speech and Cancel Culture
Abstract: Toxic speech inflicts individual and group harm, damaging the social fabric upon which we all depend. To understand and combat the harms of toxic speech, philosophers can learn from epidemiology, while epidemiologists can benefit from lessons of philosophy of language. In medicine and public health, research into remedies for toxins pushes in two directions:… |
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Abstract: What is it to engage in moral inquiry? The received wisdom is that it is to answer moral questions 鈥� that is, questions about what we ought to do. Someone has moral expertise to the extent to which she is reliable at arriving at true answers to those questions. Philosophical disagreements have focused on…
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Title: Big Data and the Risk of Misguided Responsibilization 聽 Abstract: The arrival of 鈥渂ig data鈥� promises new degrees of precision in understanding human behavior. Could it also make it possible to draw a finer line between individual choices and circumstances that operate in the background? In a culture in which individual responsibility continues to… |
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Title: Composition as Identity defeats an Ethical Objection to Four-Dimensionalism Abstract: Johnston, Olson, and Taylor have argued against four-dimensionalism on the grounds that it commits us to the existence of personites, which are proper temporal parts of four-dimensional persons. They argue that the existence of personites makes many of our moral beliefs and practices untenable,… |
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For our second session on the theme of ‘Dangerous Speech, Free Speech and Cancel Culture’ Nick Allen will be giving a presentation titled ‘Context-Collapsed Contributory Injustice: the Dangers of Misappropriating Speech Online‘. Abstract: The misappropriation of marginalised communities鈥� terminology by the wider public is a particularly modern and nefarious form of discriminatory practice, fuelled increasingly…
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4). |
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Abstract: An a priori lie is a lie that conflicts with an a priori truth. Rather sportingly, the liar leaves himself open to refutation by armchair methods such as calculation. My thesis is that Immanuel Kant precludes the existence of a priori lies. For asserting a proposition requires raising a rational expectation of its truth.…
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Title: Justice Before Role Obligations Abstract: Many believe that agents in the justice system are morally constrained to follow certain assigned roles, understood as excluding the exercise of moral judgement: lawyers to serve the interests of their clients, judges to enforce the law as written by the legislature, and juries to assess the factual evidence… |
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