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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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Title: Sets as fusions of materially-equivalent rigid embodiments Abstract: Albeit having some initial plausibility, most philosophers today would reject the thesis that members of sets are parts of sets, instead following Lewis (1991, 1993) in taking sets and classes more generally to have only their subclasses as parts, with singletons being mereologically atomic. Against this… |
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Abstract: It is said that inquiry has an aim, though it’s not entirely clear how we should think about this claim. What, in general, does it mean to say that the activity of inquiry has an aim? In this talk I go through a few options and think about them within the context of the…
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Climate Change, COVID-19, Justice, and Quality of Life Abstract:聽Justice would appear to require that those who are the principal beneficiaries of a history of economic and political behavior that has resulted in harmful global climate change should bear a correspondingly large share of the burden in contending with these harms worldwide. At the same time,… |
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Flatworldism: A (Reluctant) Defense Flatworldism is a view on the nature of reality according to which reality lacks a certain kind of 鈥� hierarchical 鈥� structure. Prima facie what this means is that reality鈥檚 inhabitants are not sub-dividable into the more and less fundamental such that what is more fundamental (at least sometimes) makes what… |
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Cognitive Acquaintance: A Non-Causal Alternative Within literature on singular thought and reference, acquaintance is one of the 鈥榦rthodox鈥� ways successful reference is achieved. Generally speaking, an acquaintance theory articulates that there must be some relation existing between subject and object. While the notion has developed significantly since Russell鈥檚 articulation of it, today the acquaintance relation… |
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Title: An Agential Account of Poverty Abstract: Poverty has traditionally been conceived as a state of deprivation. To be poor is to lack something that is essential to human flourishing. How that something is conceived鈥攊n terms of welfare, resources, or capabilities鈥攁nd how it is to be measured鈥攊n absolute terms or as relative to a social… |
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