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Title:聽Can a Russellian Monist Be a Genuine Physicalist? Abstract: Currently, Russellian Monism is a cutting-edge theory in the discussion of phenomenal consciousness. It has the potential to retain the advantages of both narrow physicalism and narrow dualism by locating phenomenal consciousness in a fundamentally unified universe, having it play essential causal roles in the physical…
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Title:聽grounding metaphysics on Reddit posts, a work in progress. Abstract:聽In this presentation I will be walking us through the methodological challenges I face in writing the second chapter of my thesis. Broadly, my thesis is an attempt to ameliorate the concept of 鈥榞ender dysphoria鈥�. The first chapter argued that the current mainstream construals of gender… |
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Title: Seeing Holes-without seeing what they are holes in Abstract: Peering down into a tall box, you see a ring. The ring is removed. To your surprise this uncovers a second duplicate ring. Did you see the hole of the bottom ring before you saw the bottom ring? Each answer is backed by good reasons.… |
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Speaker: Carlotta Pavese (Cornell University) Are there essentially intentional actions? A long tradition in action theory holds that there are such things as essentially intentional actions鈥攁ctions that are intentional whenever performed (Anscombe, Davidson, Bennett, Turri, etc). In my talk, I argue that the existence of essentially intentional action is a philosophical myth and that this…
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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This talk is part of our series on Climate Ethics. Title: Ethical births, ethical deaths: Climate anxiety in Britain through the life course Abstract: This paper is based on anthropological research conducted with climate activists on the topic of climate anxiety in Britain. Drawing on themes of kinship and its relationship to mental health and… |
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Title: Kant risk a lie! Abstract: Immanuel Kant says, 鈥渓ying is the chief sin against others, alongside robbery, murder and stuproviolatio鈥�. Kant never risks robbery, murder, or rape. But Kant does risk telling intentionally deceptive falsehoods. Instead of being a man a few words, Kant is a man of three million words. Equally revealing is…
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Title: The Authority of Hunger Abstract: In this talk, I canvass moral considerations that suggest that hunger is morally authoritative. What’s more, trying to circumvent our hunger via current surgical and pharmaceutical technologies is risky, unpleasant, and often ineffective. I conclude by considering the case for avoiding even “silver bullet” appetite suppressants, for the sake… |
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Title: History of logic as a tool for exploring the plurality of logical frameworks Abstract: I will outline another type of logical pluralism than the one now famously proposed by Beall and Restall (2006). I will argue that in addition to paying attention to particular logics, such as classical, intuitionnistic, relevance logics, etc., it is… |
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9 MAY 11.00-11.15 Welcome 11.15-12.00 Helena Taylor (Exeter), Natural philosophy in the Early Modern French Salon: at the Crossroads of Science and Literature Chair: Mogens L忙rke (CNRS, Oxford/Lyon) 12.00-12.45 Emily Kent (Edinburgh), Practice Makes Pedagogy: Maignan鈥檚 Cursus philosophicus (1653) and the Institutionalization of Experimental Philosophy 12.45-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.00 Key Note. Antonio Salgardo Borge (Nottingham), Spinoza鈥檚…
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Speaker: Jade Fletcher (58吃瓜) Practices, Normativity, and Ideological Construction: Conceptualizing Epistemic (In)Justice The aim of this exploratory paper is to put into dialogue two different threads in contemporary social philosophy. Charles Mills made a helpful interjection into the epistemic injustice literature when he suggested that the concept of ideology is valuable for analytic epistemologists.…
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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This week Victor Tardos will be leading an in-person discussion of Sameer Bajaj and Patrick Tomlin’s article ‘Consenting Under Coercion: The Partial Validity Account.’聽(Link here:聽https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pq/pqad092/7287044) Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Title: Consent, Intent, and Communication What is consent? I will assume that it is a normative power 鈥� a power to alter rights and duties directly. If this is right, how is consent exercised? I will argue that consent is exercised through the execution of intentions to alter practical reasoning. Successful communication is not needed… |
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TITLE:聽Probabilistic Arbitrary Reference ABSTRACT:聽Arbitrary Reference is the idea that we can refer to individual entities with some degree of arbitrariness. Although there are different accounts of Arbitrary Reference, nearly all of them can be challenged on the basis that they entail the existence of free-floating semantic facts, namely: semantic facts which are not grounded in…
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This week we will be doing a reading group on Lorna Finlayson’s ‘There Is No Alternative: Constructiveness and Political Criticism’, chapter one of her book ‘The Political is Political’. Get in touch for a copy of the reading. |
2 events,Workshop on Daniel Mu帽oz’s forthcoming book聽What We Owe to Ourselves Date:聽15 May聽2024 Location:聽Edgecliffe 104 Registration required:聽email Theron Pummer (tgp4@st-andrews.ac.uk) 聽 Provisional Schedule聽 945am: Coffee/tea, welcome 10am: Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech) 1115am: Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt University) 1225pm: Lunch 130pm: Quinn White (Harvard University) 240pm: Coffee/tea 300pm: Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queen鈥檚 University) 415pm: Joseph Bowen (University of Leeds)…
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Title:聽A New Problem for Logical Contextualism Abstract:聽Logical contextualism is the view that 鈥榲alid鈥� is a context-sensitive expression. One key reason to endorse logical contextualism is that, unlike traditional forms of logical pluralism, it can avoid the so-called聽collapse problem. Logical contextualism relies on the crucial assumption that each conversational context determines a uniquely appropriate logical consequence… |
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Speaker: Roy Sorensen (UT Austin & 58吃瓜) Modesty is a Contagious Blindspot I am modest about my spelling accuracy. Oops, I cannot consistently believe that! Modesty about my spelling entails I underestimate my spelling. If I indeed underestimate my spelling accuracy, then my ignorance about spelling accuracy is contagious. For if I believe you…
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Douven, Igor & G盲rdenfors, Peter (2019). What are natural concepts? A design perspective. Mind and Language (3):313-334. https://philpapers.org/archive/DOUWAN.pdf
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Title: Pleasure Fundamentalism Abstract: Pleasure fundamentalism is the view that moral value is the same thing as pleasure and this explains all other moral facts. This talk presents two arguments for pleasure fundamentalism and discusses the form of naturalism they arise from. According to the Reliability Argument, all processes generating moral belief are unreliable, except… |
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The event is hybrid and open to philosophy faculty and students outside 58吃瓜. Remote participants can access the teams link by requesting it from Patrick Winther-Larsen (pjwl@st-andrews.ac.uk)聽or Jessica Brown (jab30@st-andrews.ac.uk). Speakers: Endre Begby (Simon Fraser University) Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern/58吃瓜) Joshua Habgood-Coote (Leeds) Chris Kelp (Glasgow) Julia Staffel (Colorado) Elise Woodard (KCL, London) Programme:… |
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Title: Depression and the Open Future Abstract: We intuitively think that the past is fixed or closed whereas the future is open. In a phenomenological description of depression, however, depressed subjects often report that the future is closed. Our na茂ve view of the open future thus seems to be impaired. What makes the depressed subjects…
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Title: Are kids oppressed? Child liberation beyond equal rights Abstract: Thinking about childhood often has a paradoxical quality. Children and young people are at once idealised and demonised. Childhood is romanticised in memory and imagination at the same time as it is the receptacle for our deepest traumas. The idea of children as an oppressed…
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Title:聽“Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem” Abstract:聽Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of “categorical inequality.” In this framework, entire social groups enjoy superior power, social esteem, and wealth over other groups: aristocrats over commoners, men over women, blacks over whites in the U.S., Brahmins over Dalits in… |
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Title: Reference Without Identity Abstract: Singular reference to non-individuals is often thought to be impossible. At present, however, this claim rests solely on intuitions. In this paper, I present four arguments in favour of the impossibility of singular reference to non-individuals. |
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Title: Numerical and Mereological Indeterminacy. Abstract:This talk has two aims, one negative and the other positive.聽 The negative aim is to argue against the possibility of numerical or mereological indeterminacy by showing how the arguments given by Sider and Lewis can be modified so as to be resistant to the objections that might reasonably be…
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Regular meeting is cancelled. Instead, the stream will host a workshop: The Epistemology of Inquiry
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Belastegui, Javier (2022). ‘A Qualitative Approach to Conceptual Spaces: Prototypes as Qualitative Atoms.’ Erkenntnis (Online):1-36. https://philpapers.org/rec/BELAQA-2 |
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Title: Regret Abstract: There are many ways to feel bad about things. This paper is about which of those ways of feeling bad count as regret, and why. I will suggest that a very great deal of our bad feelings are regrets, in opposition to the narrower view of some philosophers and psychologists who restrict…
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There will be no session this week as it conflicts with an amazing workshop on climate ethics. Please join us there: http://stacees.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2024/05/Climate-Week-Conference-Schedule-%E2%80%93-May-2024-%E2%80%93-DU49273.pdf This event is part of the Inaugural 58吃瓜 Climate Week: https://stacees.ac.uk/university-of-st-andrews-climate-week/ |
3 events,How can the disparity between global climate impact and uneven responsibilities be squared with the ideal of climate justice? How do epistemic infrastructures (such as: IPCC, and global agenda and goal setting mechanisms) interact with communities on the global and local levels? How are climate policies and priorities inflected by questions of distance (across space…
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Title: When Rules Define Logical Operators: Rules as Second-Order Definitions Abstract: Logical inferentialists hold that the meaning of logical operators is given by their rules of inference. Arthur Prior cast doubt on this by introducing rules for his so-called tonk operator that seemed to allow for the derivation of any sentence whatsoever from any sentence…
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Title: Beyond Institutional Denial: A Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations Abstract: Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations, in part because there is a governance gap when it comes to promoting intergenerational concern. This gap facilitates a tyranny of the contemporary that puts the young and other future generations… |
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The University of 58吃瓜 Arch茅 Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology will be hosting a workshop on Metaphysical Explanation. Description:聽The purpose of the workshop is to bring together and promote research in the nature of metaphysical explanation, exploring what it is and how it works. In addition, the workshop seeks to…
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Cancelled due to conflicting event Symposium on Jessia Brown’s聽Groups as Epistemic and Moral Agents (OUP) Cogito Research Centre, University of Glasgow, May 27-28th. All ECT members are welcome to attend, but will need to cover expenses聽(i.e., food and travel)聽themselves.
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Title: About Climate Justice: What Does it Mean and What Lies Ahead? Abstract: In July 2023, Europe reached scorching milestones with relentless heatwaves and Scotland had its hottest June ever. Several regions grappled with unprecedented rainfall, triggering ecological and socioeconomic upheaval. However, impacts aren’t equally distributed, those who contribute minimally to carbon emissions, find themselves… |
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We are proud to present the first session of聽CEPPA Film Club, on Friday 31 May (also the last day of Climate Week), when we will gather from 4.30 onwards to watch and discuss Alfonso Cuar贸n’s classic dystopian film聽Children of Men聽(see trailer here). Miguel de la Cal Moreno is convening and will start us off with… |
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