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Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor: Caste, Queerness and South Asian Diaspora in the UK Sweaty, seductive sex club on a Saturday night London, and amidst some raunchy Bollywood music someone whispers to you a shloka. In the nudity of a sauna in Leicester, a stranger who desires you, randomly asks you your caste.… |
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This week we will be discussing Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve’s article,’Equality Versus Priority’ Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Title: Chance Prioritarianism Location: Teams (online only), and streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: I will defend what we could call survival chance prioritarianism, according to which the moral value of improving someone鈥檚 chance of surviving (some period) is greater the more likely the person was to die before the improvement. I motivate this view by… |
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We use the plenary seminar time slot on occasions when we have a meeting of wider interest to the whole Arch茅 community.
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This week will be a work-in-progress session, discussing a draft paper by our very own Bradley Hillier-Smith, on ‘Rights, Duties and Inviolability’. Here is the abstract: Rights entail corresponding negative duties not to violate those rights. On this, all rights-theorists agree. Yet there is disagreement on whether rights also entail positive duties to protect and…
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Title: Risk, Ambiguity, and Ethical Decision-Making Abstract: I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority about what to believe or what to do even when doing so goes against one鈥檚 own reasoning. Indeed, such deference is rational in typical cases in which individuals treat others as authorities: for example, experts in…
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Abstract:聽I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority about what to believe or what to do even when doing so goes against one鈥檚 own reasoning. Indeed, such deference is rational in typical cases in which individuals treat others as authorities: for example, experts in a domain, interpersonal advisors, and religious traditions.… |
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Title: The grounding problem in language and reality Abstract: Philosophy of language has long struggled with the symbol-grounding problem of meaning. If symbols are only defined relationally, that is, in terms of each other, then how do they ever mean something? Learning that 鈭� connects 鈭� to 鈧� seems to say little about the meaning…
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Title: Activist Slogans and ‘Reframing the Debate’ Abstract: This talk will examine the role of slogans in social justice movements and how we should understand their meaning. Social justice movements often utilise slogans and claims which putatively clash with received common sense. One way of understanding these claims is as what Cantalamessa terms ‘conceptual activism’:… |
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Title:聽Carnap on Metaphysics, Before and After 1932: The Importance of Tolerance Abstract: Late in 1932, Carnap accepts the Principle of Tolerance. This makes a fundamental difference to his philosophy, although that is not always readily apparent in his writings. The present paper illustrates this claim by examining his opposition to metaphysics. It discusses his pre-1932… |
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Title: Why the History of Logic Should Matter to Modern Logicians Abstract: The starting point of this talk is the present-day state of logic, a field which is ever expanding and becoming more inclusive and yet which still presents systemic barriers of access to certain groups of people.聽 As logicians we think there is value…
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We use the plenary seminar time slot on occasions when we have a meeting of wider interest to the whole Arch茅 community.
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We will be reading excerpts from Jos茅 Medina’s聽The Epistemology of Protest聽(2023).
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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This week we will be discussing Jacob Blumenfeld’s article ‘Climate Barbarism: Adapting to a Wrong World’ Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Green Bioethics: Environmental Sustainability and Health Care Commentator: Joseph Millum (58吃瓜) Abstract:聽Health care is ubiquitous in the industrialized world. Yet, every medical development, technique, and procedure impacts the environment. By 2017, the National Health Service鈥檚 Health, and Social Care sectors had a carbon output (CO2) of 27.1 million tons. Carbon…
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Girlhood Stories: What can(鈥榯) stories about girls do? The St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies is delighted that Catherine Mackenzie will be delivering the StAIGS Seminar on Thursday the 16th of November. The talk is titled: Girlhood Stories: What can(鈥榯) stories about girls do? The abstract is copied below. The talk will take place from 4pm to… |
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Title: Philosophical foundations for radical love Abstract: Much recent philosophical work on love seeks to understand it as a fitting response to the value of those we love, with such accounts typically being articulated in terms of 鈥榬easons for love鈥�. Debates in this area have been animated by a couple of challenges: first, to explain…
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Title: Ontology of Some Philosophy Abstract: When philosophers discuss philosophical views, theories, or arguments, their discussion is often not metaphysically innocent. Given certain substantial but widely accepted assumptions concerning relativization of truth, the worlds framework, and understanding ontological issues in terms of domains of discourse (see Three Insights below), it can be argued that the… |
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Title: Vague Mereology and Supervaluationism Abstract: What is the referent of 鈥楳t Everest鈥�, 鈥楨dinburgh鈥�, and even of 鈥楳eta鈥� and 鈥楳ark Zuckerberg鈥�? Like dust, vagueness 鈥榞ets into everything鈥� (Dummett, 1995, p. 207) but, unlike dust, it is often taken to be only a semantic phenomenon. Standard supervaluationist accounts explain failures of reference fixing by appealing to… |
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We will be reading Z. Quanbeck & A. Worsnip’s 鈥淎 Permissivist Alternative to Encroachment,鈥� Philosophers鈥� Imprint (forthcoming).
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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This week we will discuss Guy Kahane‘s article ‘Our Cosmic Insignificance‘ Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 Title: Is the future a utility monster? Abstract: I will revisit Nozick鈥檚 utility monster thought experiment and draw an analogy between imagined utility monsters and the long-term future. I argue that the far future can be seen as a real-life utility monster. This is the case if the three premises that form the… |
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Title: Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy and its Implications Abstract: Around the world, many countries have legislation in place which limits access to reproductive rights. Philosophically, ethically, legally and socially, people and institutions seemed to have implicitly accepted that a foetus and its gestational carrier are separate entities. Colloquially termed the 鈥榖un in the oven鈥�… |
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No Metaphysics and Logic Seminar this week due to a conference. |
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Neutrality and Neutralism Workshop Arch茅 Research Centre, University of 58吃瓜 November 30th 鈥� December 1st 2023. Venue: School II, United College, St Salvator’s Quad, 58吃瓜,聽KY169AL SCHEDULE: Day One: 9.15 – 10.45: Amie Thomasson: Deflationism as a path to Neutralism and Conceptual Engineering. 11 – 12.30: Theron Pummer: Impartiality in Ethics. 12.45 – 2.15:…
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Abstract: I鈥檒l be sharing some of the work in progress on my dissertation, where I inquire about the relationship between understanding and responsible belief. Drawing on parallels from moral responsibility, I suggest that epistemic responsibility requires a certain minimal level of understanding of the reasons for a belief as a condition for properly accepting it.…
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