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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210913T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210913T110000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
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UID:10001306-1631525400-1631530800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-10/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ō¹Ļ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210913T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210913T170000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210628T152320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T222309Z
UID:10001308-1631545200-1631552400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics Seminar Aaron Cotnoir (University of 58³Ō¹Ļ)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Partial identity and mereotopology \nAbstract: 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 ā€“ namely\, partial identity. The aim of this paper is to ask whether there may be principled reasons to doubt that two partially identical objects must share some part. We wish to explore a notion of partial identity that does not require the existence of some separate part of both. We then provide a formal theory of such a relation drawn from mereotopology. We then consider an application in the philosophy of mathematics.
URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-seminar/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ō¹Ļ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210914T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210914T140000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210629T152330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210914T222310Z
UID:10001313-1631620800-1631628000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language & Mind Seminar: Lixiao Lin
DESCRIPTION:Aesthetic assertion\, aesthetic knowledge\, and acquaintance inference \nSimple 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\,Ā ā€œSatantango is a beautiful novelā€\, my utterance suggests that I have read the book. How to explain AI? In this talk\, I will propose that AI is better analysed as an epistemic conversational implicature (i.e. a conversational implicature based on our assumption about the epistemology of aesthetic judgment). I will also argue that my account is better than other proposals currently on the market (e.g. the entailment view\, the presupposition view\, the expressionist view\, and the epistemic view. etc.).
URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-s1-3/
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210914T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210914T170000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210629T152331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210914T222310Z
UID:10001314-1631631600-1631638800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Patricia Churchland (UC San Diego)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-12/
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210915T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210915T160000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210831T171140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T175314Z
UID:10001390-1631718000-1631721600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:/philevents/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-61/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210915T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210915T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210629T152331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T222311Z
UID:10001315-1631721600-1631728800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Philosophy & Social Theory ArchƩ Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210919
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210602T100328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T180111Z
UID:10001304-1631750400-1632009599@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:All Work and No Play
DESCRIPTION:A workshop on the philosophy of work and time-allocation \nĀ  \n16-18 September \, 2021 \nThe Future of Work and Income Research NetworkĀ  Ā Ā (fwistandrews@gmail.com) \nCentre for Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Public Affairs \nDepartment of Philosophy\, University of 58³Ō¹Ļ \nWorkshop to be held entirely online \nThursday 16th September \n\n\n\n10.30am\nWelcome and introdution to the Future of Work and Income Research Network\n\n\n11am ā€“ 12:30pm\nJonathan Wolff (Oxford University): Working at Home\, Socialising at Work\n\n\n2:30 ā€“ 4pm\nLisa Herzog (Groningen University): Bodies at Work\n\n\n\nFriday 17th September \n\n\n\n11am ā€“ 12:30pm\nDiana-Elena Popescu (Edinburgh University): Leisure for Every Body: Disability and the Four Day Workweek\n\n\n2:30 ā€“ 4pm\nJoe Ryle (4 Day Week Campaign): Has the time come for a four-day week?\n\n\n\nSaturday 18th September \n\n\n\n11am ā€“ 12:30pm\nOtto Lehto (KCL): The Technological Unemployment Hypothesis in the UBI Debate: A Critique\n\n\n12:30 ā€“ 2pm\nSimeon Goldstraw (Oxford University) Free Time Isnā€™t Working\n\n\n3 ā€“ 4:30pm\nBertrand Rossert (World Bank): Defining Work\n\n\n\nā€œ8 hours labour\, 8 hours recreation\, 8 hours rest!ā€ This was the slogan adopted by many labour movements in the nineteenth century\, when 16-hour working days were not uncommon. Marx believed that only part of the working day was required to supply workersā€™ consumption needs\, the rest going to support the consumption of idle capitalists. John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 that a fifteen-hour workingĀ weekĀ was a close possibility\, requiring only that work was spread more evenly across the population. \nĀ  \nAlthough less extreme than Keynesā€™s vision\, some activists today are campaigning for a four-day working week. The campaign has won some victories\, with the Spanish government launching an experiment with mid-sized companies last year and the Scottish government promising to try something similar. Besides economic questions about labour productivity and marginal returns\, there are deep philosophical questions around theĀ allocation of timeĀ to work. We hope to address these in this workshop. Some examples are: \nĀ  \n\nHow do we distinguish labour\, recreation\, and rest?\nShould time spend recuperating between physically exhausting tasks count as rest or part of labour?\nShould activities undertaken to ā€˜decompressā€™ after mentally or emotionally taxing work count as recreation?\nAre there important differences between relaxation activities and leisure activities?\nIn his 1966 essay\, ā€œThe Abolition of Workā€\, Bob Black distinguished work from play in terms of the latter beingĀ voluntaryĀ ā€“ but what is the relevant category of ā€œvoluntarinessā€ here?\nWhat about the allocation of domestic and caring labour? How does this play into patterns of gender inequality and other forms of social imbalance?\nIsĀ timeĀ the right measure of the balance between work\, leisure\, and rest? What about intensity\, satisfaction\, etc.?\nIs flexibility in working time always a blessing\, or can it be a hidden curse?\nHow should we think about the allocation of working time among the population? Can some groups ā€œsteal timeā€ from others? What about the allocation of time across generations?\n\nFor More Information\nAlex Douglas (axd@st-andrews.ac.uk)
URL:/philevents/event/all-work-and-no-play/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210916T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210916T120000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210628T152321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T223810Z
UID:10001312-1631786400-1631793600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Super Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/super-special-seminar-8/
CATEGORIES:Super Special Seminar series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210916T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210916T143000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210826T202308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T223811Z
UID:10001377-1631797200-1631802600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Jessica Brown ā€œGroup Evidenceā€
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:Ā 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 werenā€™t necessary despite the new strain. Many take such ascriptions to be literally true\, and there has been much recent work on what it is for a group to have a belief\, or for a group belief to be justified or constitute knowledge. Just as in the case of individuals\, if groups have beliefs then whether they are justified or constitute knowledge partially depends on their evidence. So itā€™s important to address the question of what is a groupā€™s evidence. Here\, I examine a range of different views about group evidence and argue for an inflationary account of group evidence on which a groupā€™s evidence is not a simple function of the evidence of its members.
URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-liam-kofi-bright-lse/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210916T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210916T173000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210830T171133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T180113Z
UID:10001381-1631808000-1631813400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk ā€“ Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia)
DESCRIPTION:TITLE: ā€˜Interactional Wrongs and Vicesā€™\n\nABSTRACT: 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 either grease the wheels or put a spanner in the wheels of healthy human sociability. Interactional ethicsĀ concerns both our first-order conduct within a given interaction and our second-order management of our interactional lives. At both levels\, we can act well or badly and thereby do great good\, harm\, justice\, and injustice. This paper homes in on first-order and second-order interactionalĀ wrongs. It isolates distinct wrongs that we can do at each of the three key stages of an interaction ā€“ the initiation stage\, execution stage\, and conclusion stage ā€“ including\, notably\, engage inĀ interactional outsourcing. It then examines specific second-order patterns of wrongdoing ā€“ interactional vices ā€“ that we can display as we manage our interactional lives.
URL:/philevents/event/ceppa-talk-kimberley-brownlee-university-of-british-columbia/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T110000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210831T210810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T230812Z
UID:10001401-1632130200-1632135600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave\, Insolubles
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-20/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ō¹Ļ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T140000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210628T152319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210628T152319Z
UID:10001307-1632139200-1632146400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind S1
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-s1/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ō¹Ļ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T170000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210628T152320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210628T152320Z
UID:10001309-1632150000-1632157200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-10/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ō¹Ļ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T170000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210831T210810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T230814Z
UID:10001402-1632150000-1632157200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics Seminar Matthew Green (University of 58³Ō¹Ļ)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Relevance in the Logic of Imagination \nAbstract: 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 beliefs count as relevant in this context? And how is relevance to be modelled in the logic of imagination? \nDifferent answers to these questions yield different approaches in the logic of imagination\, including possible worlds approaches (Lewis 1978\, Heintz 1979\, Niiniluoto 1985\, Costaā€“Leite 2010)\, impossible worlds approaches (Berto 2014\, Priest 2016a\, Priest 2016b\, Berto 2016\, Berto 2017\, Berto and Jago 2019)\, and subject matter approaches (Berto 2018a\, Berto 2018b). In the first part of the talk\, Iā€™ll argue that these approaches do not adequately model relevance. In the second\, Iā€™ll propose a new approach and argue that\, whilst an improvement\, it is not without issue. Iā€™ll introduce a significant problem for the approach and show how Iā€™ve tried to solve it.
URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-seminar-11/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ō¹Ļ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210921T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210921T140000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210628T152320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210628T152320Z
UID:10001310-1632225600-1632232800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind S1
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-s1-2/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ō¹Ļ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210921T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210921T140000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210831T210811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T230812Z
UID:10001403-1632225600-1632232800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language & Mind Seminar: David Papineau (KCL)
DESCRIPTION:The Causal Argument Against Representationalism \nThe central argument against perceptual representationalism in my recentĀ The Metaphysics of Sensory ExperienceĀ was that representationalĀ statesĀ arenā€™t 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 prospects for holding that perceptual states metaphysically determine representationalĀ statesĀ while remaining distinct from them.
URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-s1-13/
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210921T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210921T170000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210628T152321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210628T152321Z
UID:10001311-1632236400-1632243600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-11/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ō¹Ļ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210921T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210921T170000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210831T210822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T230813Z
UID:10001404-1632236400-1632243600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-22/
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210924
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210602T100329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T182307Z
UID:10001305-1632268800-1632441599@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Wild Animal Ethics Conference
DESCRIPTION:Wild Animal Ethics Conference
URL:/philevents/event/wild-animal-ethics-conference/
ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Sachs":MAILTO:bas7@st-andrews.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T160000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210831T171141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T182307Z
UID:10001391-1632322800-1632326400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:/philevents/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-62/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T180000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210831T210822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T230811Z
UID:10001405-1632326400-1632333600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Emilia Wilson Dangerous Speech\, Free Speech and Cancel Culture
DESCRIPTION: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: individual protections (personal actions\, avoidances\, preventive or reparative tonics) and collective action (specific policies or widespread ā€œinoculationsā€ through which we seek herd immunity). This paper is the beginning of a project of identifying potential inoculations and antidotes to toxic speech. The essay brings a social practice theory of language\, with special reliance on language-games and inferential roles\, into conversation with concepts from the study of biologic toxins. Some speech harms are acute while others are chronic and insidious; they have different methods of delivery\, come invariable doses\, and not everyone is equally susceptible to the power to harm. I argue that of the many kinds of challenges we might issue against toxic speech\, challenging its expressive commitments has the greatest potential to stop the damage.The essay explores the different sorts of protections that inoculations andantidotes might offer against discursive toxins and sketches how to imagine these in the practices that govern our speech. The paper does not make policy recommendations\, but an epidemiology of discursive toxicity reveals several kinds of ā€œmore speechā€ that might fight against ā€œbad speech.ā€
URL:/philevents/event/philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-11/
CATEGORIES:Philosophy & Social Theory ArchƩ Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T120000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210831T210822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210923T230812Z
UID:10001406-1632391200-1632398400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Super Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/super-special-seminar-18/
CATEGORIES:Super Special Seminar series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T143000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210629T152332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210923T230812Z
UID:10001316-1632402000-1632407400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) ā€œAsking the right moral questionsā€
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: What is it to engage in moral inquiry? The received wisdom is that it is to answer moral questions ā€“ 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 what it takes to arrive at right answers: is it a matter of being able to weigh reasons\, something more akin to a perceptual capacity\, or the ability to give explanations? These debates leave a crucial part of moral inquiry unexplored: namely how we come up with moral questions in the first place. This paper examines the asking-questions part of moral inquiry and what it tells us about moral expertise.
URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-12/
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T173000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210830T171134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210923T182312Z
UID:10001382-1632412800-1632418200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk ā€“ Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Big Data and the Risk of Misguided Responsibilization\nĀ \nAbstract: The arrival of ā€œbig dataā€ 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 be celebrated\, this raises questions about new opportunities for institutional design with a stronger focus on individual responsibility. But what is it that can be drawn from big data? In this paper I argue that we should not expect a ā€œgodā€™s eyeā€™s viewā€ on choice and circumstances from big data. ā€œResponsibilityā€ is a social construct that depends on the logic of different social situations\, as well as our epistemic access to certain counterfactuals (e.g. whether an agent ā€œcould have acted differentlyā€). It is this epistemic dimension that changes with the arrival of big data. But while it might help overcome some epistemic barriers\, it might also create new problems\, e.g. because of polluted data. This is not just a theoretical problem; it is directly connected to questions about the regulation of the insurance industry\, for which ā€œbig dataā€ has been described as a ā€œgame changer.ā€ I argue that this development forces us to directly confront questions about mutualist versus solidaristic forms of insurance\, and more generally speaking about how much weight to ascribe to individual responsibility\, given all we know about unequal background circumstances.
URL:/philevents/event/ceppa-talk-lisa-herzog-university-of-groningen/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210924T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210924T130000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210909T220823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210924T230811Z
UID:10001420-1632484800-1632488400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Arche PhD Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/arche-phd-meeting/
LOCATION:Online Meeting via Teams
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210927T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210927T110000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
CREATED:20210629T152332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210927T233811Z
UID:10001317-1632735000-1632740400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave\, Insolubles
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-11/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ō¹Ļ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210927T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210927T170000
DTSTAMP:20260618T194056
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics Seminar Travis Manuel (University of 58³Ō¹Ļ)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Composition as Identity defeats an Ethical Objection to Four-Dimensionalism\n\nAbstract:\nJohnston\, 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\, so we must either give up those beliefs and practices or reject four-dimensionalism. I show that composition as identity can solve this problem: composition as identity can make four-dimensionalism and personites consistent with our moral beliefs and practices. Four-dimensionalism is saved and we have a novel reason to endorse composition as identity.
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LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ō¹Ļ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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SUMMARY:Language & Mind Seminar: Victor Tamburini (58³Ō¹Ļ)
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CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210928T150000
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SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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SUMMARY:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Nick Allen\, ā€˜Context-Collapsed Contributory Injusticeā€™
DESCRIPTION:For our second session on the theme of ā€˜Dangerous Speech\, Free Speech and Cancel Cultureā€™ Nick Allen will be giving a presentation titled ā€˜Context-Collapsed Contributory Injustice: the Dangers of Misappropriating Speech Onlineā€˜. \n\n\nAbstract: The misappropriation of marginalised communitiesā€™ terminology by the wider public is a particularly modern and nefarious form of discriminatory practice\, fuelled increasingly by social media. Using these terms outside their original context warps their meaning\, decreasing the intelligibility of the experiences of the marginalised agents who use them when attempting to express themselves both within their community and without. \nI intend to give an analysis of this phenomena\, with the expectation that understanding it better will provide a crucial step in combatting it. To this end I will argue it can best be understood as a specialised form of what Kristie Dotson calls ā€˜contributory injusticeā€™Ā combined with a specific consequence of what Boyd and Marwick call ā€˜context collapseā€™. The result is a novel phenomena I label ā€˜Context-Collapsed Contributory Injusticeā€™ or ā€˜CC.CIā€™. \nIn addition\, I will argue that CC.CI causes a novel from of what Miranda Fricker calls ā€˜hermeneutical injusticeā€™\, which is demarcated by its ability to reintroduce conceptual lacunas by undermining existing hermeneutical resources. \n\n\nThroughout\, I will focus on the example case of the misappropriation of the concept ā€˜wokeā€™ as it is used on black twitter (which is\, roughly\, the subsection of twitter users who are black and tweet with the intended audience of other black users).
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CATEGORIES:Philosophy & Social Theory ArchƩ Seminar
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