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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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Title: Mental Hypertime Abstract: Hypertime, if it exists, is a second dimension of time. The hypothesis of聽mental hypertime聽says that the mind has a second representation of time. This enables the mind to represent the world as though there were a second time dimension, even though both representations may in fact be of the same real…
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Title:聽A Very Large Peruvian Painting Abstract:聽This talk is in some ways about a missing object in search of a satisfying narrative frame. More concretely, it鈥檚 about a painting. The painting was made in Lima in 1791, and was intended to be sent to King Charles IV of Spain, but, as a result of a series… |
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Title: ‘A Conceptual Space for Classical Concepts’ Abstract:聽TBC
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Sophie Grace Chappell聽will present her new book聽Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World聽– followed by bubbles to celebrate!
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Sophie Grace Chappell聽will present her new book聽Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World聽– followed by bubbles to celebrate! |
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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 Modality, With or Without Possible Worlds? DESCRIPTION: The purpose of the workshop is to bring together and promote research in the area of metaphysics of modality, with a specific focus on two broad themes:… |
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Titile: Can Someone Be a Semantic Externalist Experimental Philosopher? Abstract: Among experimental philosophy of language, semantic internalism is not merely the dominant metasemantic view 鈥� it is universal. Experimental philosophers of language take the target of their inquiry to be wholly mind-dependent and revealed by participant responses to survey questions. At the same time, some…
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This coming Tuesday (11th), the one and only Sebasti谩n will be leading a reding group on ‘Relationality: aesthetic and ethical consequences ‘ the second chapter of Yuriko Saito’s book ‘The aesthetics of care’. Please get in touch for a copy of the reading |
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Title: Talk About Types Abstract: Many metaphysical theories of identity, existence, and so on, are formulated using higher-order languages like the simply typed lambda calculus. But as I argue, for the purposes of metaphysical theorizing, a different language would be better: the calculus of constructions. Since this language—like many pure type systems—allows for quantification over… |
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Hern谩ndez-Conde, Jos茅 V. (2017). A case against convexity in conceptual spaces. Synthese 194 (10):4011-4037. https://philpapers.org/rec/HERACA-2 |
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You are cordially invited to join us on a cover-to-cover reading of Meyer’s 2020聽Midnight Sun. The meeting will be online, and the session will be around 60 minutes. The plan is to discuss the book’s first five chapters, as well as set up a plan and dates for our next sessions. If you want to… |
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Memory and the feeling of pastness Recent accounts of episodic memory have revived some ideas familiar from the 鈥榚mpiricist theory of memory鈥�, which go back at least as far as Hume. New versions of the empiricist theory cite two separate bodies of recent research in psychology in support of thinking of episodic memory along empiricist…
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Title: Phallicism as Racism against the Male Target: Dehumanization, Misandric Aggression, and the Splitting of Gender. Abstract: Much of the current theory explaining the vulnerability of racialized outgroup males focus on death. In Adam Jones鈥檚 (2000) account of gendercide as well as Jim Sidanius鈥檚 (1999) theory of Social Dominance, outgroup or subordinate males become specifically… |
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Janina Hosiasson鈥檚 logic of rational degrees of belief: subjective probability before and after Ramsey Abstract: In 1931, Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum proposed a proto-decision-theoretic answer to the value of evidence problem, originally posed by C. D. Broad and eventually solved by I. J. Good in the context of Savage鈥檚 decision theory. As an influence on her paper… |
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Topic: Writing the history of women in analytic philosophy – how and why?
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Speaker: Viviane Fairbank (58吃瓜 & Stirling) Should Science Journalists Know About Science? Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, many journalists in the 2000s reported on one researcher鈥檚 unfounded claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. They treated the issue as an open question that required equal consideration of 鈥渂oth sides鈥�: those…
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Title: Some Thoughts on Victimhood and Feminism Abstract: In her book Conflict Is Not Abuse (2016), Sarah Schulman argues that, in many domains of public and private life, false accusations of harm allow (groups of) people to conflate 鈥渃onflict,鈥� which is quotidian, and 鈥渁buse,鈥� which is more problematic but infrequent. The general tendency to mis-identify… |
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Title: ‘Logic and Inference in the Sender-Receiver Model’ Abstract: Logic, inference, language 鈥� somehow these are all connected. But how? One of David Lewis鈥檚 goals in his book聽Convention聽(1969)聽was to answer this question. There, he presented what is now known as the sender-receiver model of communication, and he revealed how conventionally meaningful communication might come about.… |
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Speaker: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis) Should have Known聽and Epistemically Appropriate Belief Sometimes people don鈥檛 know things they should have known. For instance, cardiologists should know about recent major developments that bear on their practice; if they don鈥檛 know, they should have. Can what a person should have known matter to what they鈥檙e…
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Leitgeb, Hannes (2007). A New Analysis of Quasianalysis. Journal of Philosophical Logic 36 (2):181-226. https://philpapers.org/rec/LEIANA-3 |
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The All Arch茅 Research Day is a whole-of-Arch茅 get-together. It鈥檚 an opportunity to foster interaction between research streams, and to celebrate achievements from the year 2023-2024. Session 1: 10am-11am (Chair: Jessica Brown) Talk 1 Katharina Bernhard: Epistemic Projection and Inductive Risk Coffee Break: 11am-11:30am Session 2: 11:30am-1pm (Chair: Francesco Berto) Lightning talks: 11:30am-12noon (Jessica Brown,… |
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