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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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Title:聽Worlds: Possible and Impossible Abstract: In this talk, I鈥檒l reflect on the role of worlds鈥攂oth possible worlds and impossible worlds鈥攂oth in the聽semantics of various kinds of languages and logics, and in broader issues in metaphysics. I will argue that, given very modest assumptions concerning the role of worlds in semantics, that any defender of possible… |
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In Defence of Individual Rationality: Common-sense (or folk) psychology holds that (generally) we do what we do for the reasons we have. This common-sense approach is embodied in claims like 鈥淚 went to the kitchen because I wanted a drink鈥� or 鈥淪he took a coat because she thought it might rain and hoped to… |
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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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The Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar is delighted to welcome Jonathan Flowers, Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy & Religion at American University, who will be delivering a talk titled ‘The Affective Quality of Gender’: Title: The Affective Quality of Gender Abstract: 聽 聽 聽While Judith Butler recognizes that identity, specifically gendered identities,… |
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Abstract:聽Value capture occurs when an agent enters a social environment which presents external expressions of value 鈥� which are often simplified, standardized, and quantified 鈥� and those external versions come to dominate our reasoning and motivations. Examples include becoming motivated by Twitter Likes and Retweets, citation rates, ranked lists of best schools, and Grade Point…
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Title: Value Capture Abstract: Value capture occurs when an agent enters a social environment which presents external expressions of value 鈥� which are often simplified, standardized, and quantified 鈥� and those external versions come to dominate our reasoning and motivations. Examples include becoming motivated by Twitter Likes and Retweets, citation rates, ranked lists of best… |
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Title: Properties and Their Parts Abstract: I will present some very early ideas on a hyperintensional theory of properties that I am attempting to work out. I will begin my presentation by considering an unlikely area of inquiry: the mereology of material objects. I will offer a framework for thinking about two distinct types of… |
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Authority and Group Assertion We commonly attribute assertions to groups like companies and government institutions, and we want to hold them accountable for their assertions. Intuitively, we don’t attribute those assertions to the individuals performing them, but to the groups. The question is: what kind of speech act is group assertion and how does it… |
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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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For our next seminar聽we will be having our second session on the theme of ‘Dangerous Speech, Free Speech and Cancel Culture”. Derek Ball will be presenting a work in progress titled ‘A Limited, Metasemantic Defense of Cancel Culture‘. Title:“A Limited, Metasemantic Defense of Cancel Culture” Abstract:聽 Hume wrote, “We cannot form to ourselves a just… |
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Abstract: What should the interaction between non-experts and experts look like when it comes to moral inquiry? In this talk, I discuss this interaction from both perspectives. In the first part, I argue that whether non-experts should treat experts as authorities or advisors depends on the aim of moral inquiry which in turn varies with… |
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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: In this work-in-progress, I build from Iris Marion Young鈥檚 notions of inclusion and exclusion and Kristie Dotson鈥檚 framework of epistemic oppression, to show how some traditional views about what counts as a good source of justification can participate to internal epistemic exclusion, which contributes to second order epistemic oppression. Whilst theories of justification often…
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Title: 鈥楾he limits of ideology critique鈥� Abstract: The tradition of ideology critique promises a lot. It promises to be critical of the existing social order. (Good!) But it promises to generate this critique without appealing to 鈥榚xternal鈥� normative standards. In this talk I argue on meta-normative grounds that ideology critique cannot make good on these… |
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Title:聽Impossible Worlds in Dynamic Epistemic Logic Abstract:聽Epistemic Logic, as a spinoff of normal modal logics, suffers from the problem of logical omniscience: its agents are perfect reasoners with unlimited deductive power. We argue that, even from a normative point of view, this modelling is inadequate for it sets requirements that cannot be actually attained according… |
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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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For our third seminar on the theme of聽Dangerous Speech, Free Speech and Cancel Culture聽Nick Allen will be giving a work-in-progress presentation titled ‘Context-Collapsed Contributory Injustice: the Dangers of Misappropriating Speech Online‘. Title:聽Context-Collapsed Contributory Injustice: the Dangers of Misappropriating Speech Online Abstract:聽The misappropriation of marginalised communities鈥� terminology by the wider public is a particularly modern and… |
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Abstract:聽The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it introduces the concept logical akrasia (by analogy to epistemic akrasia). Second, it discusses how logical akrasia relates to the standards of epistemic rationality, and in particular, how logical akrasia poses a challenge to the tenability of the controversial 铿亁ed point thesis.
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Title: Ameliorative Skepticism and the Nature of Health Abstract: In this talk, I鈥檒l give a brief overview of the project I call 鈥榓meliorative skepticism鈥�. Sally Haslanger has argued that, in doing social ontology, we can sometimes approach the question 鈥榳hat is x?鈥� by asking question 鈥榳hat do we want x to be?鈥�. I argue that… |
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