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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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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk |
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Title: The Experienced Present, the Strict Present, and the Passage of Time Abstract: In this talk I will outline a view according to which the experienced present is best understood as the origin of the sort of temporal point of view that we occupy when we are conscious, and our experience of the passage of…
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This week we are doing a reading group on Carl Casseg氓rd and H氓kan Th枚rn Towards a Critique of the Environmental Movement. (chapter 5 of Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism) You can download it here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-13203-2 |
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Title: On the Plurality of Analyses: From Lewis Back to Russell and Moore Abstract: It is often argued that, amongst the various existing philosophical traditions, the one that enjoys the widest support is the analytic tradition. And, indeed, it is undoubtedly true that many philosophers would be prepared to describe themselves as ‘analytic philosophers’. Yet… |
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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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It is a hallmark of social and psychological science that its findings should be reproducible across relevant contexts, playing a key role in showcasing the reliability of detected effects. However, following what some have called a 鈥渨atershed鈥� moment, a 鈥渃risis of confidence鈥� has befallen the discipline, with commentators zeroing in on the Reproducibility Project鈥檚 low…
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5 events,The Future of Work and Income Research Network聽 聽聽(fwistandrews@gmail.com) Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs Department of Philosophy, University of 58吃瓜 Workshop to be held in person Free to attend Confirmed Speakers: Anca Gheaus, Central Europea University Andrea Veltman, James Madison University Philippe Van Parijs, University of Leuven
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Title: Motion(less) Pictures and Temporal Appearances Abstract: In this session I will present some work-in-progress which connects issues in the philosophy of mind, concerning temporal appearances, with the metaphysics of aesthetics, while also incorporating some insights regarding our use of perceptual verbs. Viewing typical moving images (i.e., animations/video recordings), we see what appears to be…
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This week will be a reading group on Gayle Rubin’s ‘Thinking sex’ |
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Title: On the Hyperintensions of Properties Abstract: Hyperintensionalists encounter two serious problems that cast doubt on their view of property identity, both stem from when insufficient attention is paid to the hyperintensions of properties. The first problem is what I call the 鈥楪ranularity Problem鈥�. It is the problem of finding a criterion of identity for… |
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Title: Threshold Deontology: Some Lessons from Vagueness Abtract: Threshold Deontology is the view that the positive consequences of an act do not normally override moral constraints, but when the positive balance of the consequences of an act is sufficiently great, it may be morally permitted, and possibly required to engage in an act that is… |
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