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Title: On Beall and Camrud’s defence of the combinatorial argument for FDE Abstract:聽In their 2020 paper “FDE all the way up”, Beall and Camrud aim to defend a particular combinatorial argument for the paraconsistent and paracomplete logic FDE against a natural objection. The argument, roughly, states that, since logic must consider all possibilities, it is… |
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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 this session, Lara Jost will lead a discussion of the second chapter of Myisha Cherry’s new book ‘The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle’. Title: Fitting Fury and Frightful Rage, Myisha Cherry Abstract: Chapter 2 argues that Lordean rage is an appropriate response to racial injustice and is more likely… |
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Abstract: What is the nature of one鈥檚 justification to use a logical principle such as Modus Ponens in reasoning? It is widely agreed amongst epistemologists of logic that such justification cannot be internalist. One key reason offered for this view is that internalist accounts of justification are susceptible to Carroll-style regresses. In this talk, I…
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Title: “Against ‘Good For,’ Against ‘Well-Being'” Abstract:聽This paper challenges the widely held view that 鈥榞ood for鈥�, 鈥榳ell- being鈥�, and related terms express a distinctive evaluative concept of central importance for ethics and separate from 鈥榮imply good鈥� as used by G.E. Moore and others. More specifically, it argues that there鈥檚 no philosophically useful good-for or well-being… |
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Title: Logical Akrasia 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 might pose a challenge to the tenability of the controversial 铿亁ed point thesis. |
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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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Colin Troesken will lead a discussion of Anne Eaton’s paper聽鈥楢 Lady on the Street but a Freak in the Bed鈥�: On the Distinction Between Erotic Art and Pornography聽(abstract below). Please be aware that the paper includes examples of the sorts of erotic art under discussion. As usual, the discussion leader will provide a short summary… |
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Abstract: In this talk I examine, and rebut, Goldberg鈥檚 (2020) arguments in favour of a conversational norm that would defeasibly entitle linguistic agents to presume that silence indicates assent (NSR). Using evidence from conversational analysis I show that Goldberg is wrong to claim that our linguistic communities de facto conform to this norm in conversation.…
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Title: 鈥淓pistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known鈥� Abstract: In this paper, I provide an account of the epistemic significance of the phenomenon of 鈥渂eing known鈥� and the relationship it has to reparations that are distinctively epistemic. Drawing on a framework provided by the United Nations of the 鈥渞ight to know,鈥� I argue that…
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Abstract: In this paper, I provide an account of the epistemic significance of the phenomenon of 鈥渂eing known鈥� and the relationship it has to reparations that are distinctively epistemic. Drawing on a framework provided by the United Nations of the 鈥渞ight to know,鈥� I argue that victims of gross violations and injustices not only have… |
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Title: Intensional Subject-Matter in Subsystems of Analytic Implication Abstract: Although one tends to think of truth or falsity as the predominant semantic feature with which logic is concerned, a number of logics exist that give the feature of topic or subject-matter equal weight. Just as we expect compositional truth conditions to extend to the entirety… |
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Pain, Painfulness, and Evaluation In this talk, I survey the increasingly rich, contemporary debate about the nature of pain and its unpleasantness.聽 Along the way, I highlight some of the advantages of my evaluativist view, and, against the messenger-shooting objection, I argue that evaluativism can accommodate the non-instrumental badness of unpleasant pain. |
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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: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of聽extractivist epistemology聽as a way to think through the effect of colonialism on knowing practices. Extractivist epistemologies work analogously to extractivist capitalism: seeking an epistemic resource of some sort—such as a piece of pharmacological knowledge held by an indigenous community or…
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Event co-Hosted with ECT and FPST. Title: Extractivist epistemologies Abstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of extractivist epistemology as a way to think through the effect of colonialism on knowing practices. Extractivist epistemologies work analogously to extractivist capitalism: seeking an epistemic resource of some sort—such as… |
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Title: The Access Problem for Act-type Theories of Propositions Abstract: Recent work on propositions has seen the rise of act-type theories, according to which propositions are types of cognitive acts that derive their representational and truth-conditional properties from the token cognitive acts of agents. Act-type theories have been gaining traction as part of a rejection… |
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Pluralist Meta-ethical Constructivism and Feminist Social Construction: Meta-ethical Constructivism holds that ethics is grounded upon shared values between agents in a society. In this sense a Constructivist thinks there are correct moral procedures dictated from the 鈥榤oral point of view鈥� (Street, 2008/2010), the following of which both gives answers to moral questions and justifies the… |
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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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Jade Fletcher will be giving a presentation titled ‘Social Structures, Ideology and Bad Sex‘ at 4-6pm Wednesday. If you would like to attend please email Emilia Wilson (ew58@st-andrews.ac.uk) for the link. Title:聽Social Structures, Ideology, and Bad Sex Abstract:聽This paper is concerned with providing an explanatory framework for thinking about a particular type of ethically bad… |
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Abstract: Knowledge by sight is a standard paradigm of a posteriori knowledge. Knowledge by mathematical proof is a standard paradigm of a priori knowledge. However, I will argue that the two types of knowledge have so much in common that the a priori – a posteriori distinction cannot go very deep. |
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Title: Explanatory (or Grounding) Proofs: Philosophical Framework, Core Ideas, Results Abstract: When it comes to the question of聽what聽proofs serve for, since the antiquity聽two possible answers have been identified: on the one hand, a proof can serve to show that something is true,聽on the other hand, a proof can also serve to explain why something is… |
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Linguistic Conventions and Language Change: I argue that data about language change casts doubt on the following two theses of the Lewisian metasemantic picture: that the essential function of language is communication, and that people share a language in virtue of a common interest (namely, to achieve that particular function). I propose a novel metasemantic… |
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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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