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SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar:
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-50/
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240604T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240604T140000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240505T050903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T062312Z
UID:10002058-1717502400-1717509600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-64/
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240604T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240604T140000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240601T063311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T065317Z
UID:10002095-1717502400-1717509600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar: Simon Prosser (University of 58łÔčÏ)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Mental Hypertime \nAbstract: Hypertime\, if it exists\, is a second dimension of time. The hypothesis of mental hypertime 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 time series. I shall discuss some reasons for accepting the hypothesis of mental hypertime\, and its possible role in explaining our sense of ourselves\, and perhaps other things\, ‘moving’ through time. I’ll start from a discussion of the psychology of time travel. Then I’ll discuss the connection between the hypothesis of mental hypertime and the notion\, suggested in recent years by several philosophers\, that our seeming to move through time is closely connected to our seeming to endure (rather than perdure) through time. I shall suggest a new way to understand this claim about endurance that avoids some possible objections. Finally I shall discuss a putative phenomenal contrast that suggests that the sense of moving through time is not just cognitive\, but is also phenomenological.
URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-simon-prosser-university-of-st-andrews/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240604T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240604T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240505T050903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T065317Z
UID:10002059-1717513200-1717520400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Seminar – Rebecca Earle (Warwick) [online only]
DESCRIPTION:Title: A Very Large Peruvian Painting\nAbstract: This talk is in some ways about a missing object in search of a satisfying narrative frame. More concretely\, it’s 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 of unfortunate occurrences\, ended up in Britain. Where it is now we have no idea. Perhaps it no longer exists at all. So in part this talk is about how to write the history of something that perhaps doesn’t exist anymore.
URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-rebecca-earle-warwick-online-only/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240605T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240605T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240506T050858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T065737Z
UID:10002060-1717599600-1717606800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: NO MEETING
DESCRIPTION:No meeting due to the concurrent CEPPA Fest.
URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-viviane-fairbank-university-of-st-andrews-and-university-of-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T120000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240507T050849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T070811Z
UID:10002064-1717668000-1717675200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/plenary-seminar-10/
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T143000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240507T050850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T070812Z
UID:10002065-1717678800-1717684200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED
URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-petronella-randell-st-andrews-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T153000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240507T163952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T165355Z
UID:10002067-1717684200-1717687800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:  \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:/philevents/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-151/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240507T050850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T070812Z
UID:10002066-1717686000-1717693200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Talk: Javier Belastagui (In-Person)
DESCRIPTION:Title: ‘A Conceptual Space for Classical Concepts’\nAbstract: TBC
URL:/philevents/event/unity-talk-javier-belastagui-in-person/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T173000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240604T065318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T070812Z
UID:10002099-1717689600-1717695000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST x CEPPA – Sophie Grace Chappell ‘Trans figured’ book launch.
DESCRIPTION:Sophie Grace Chappell will present her new book Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World – followed by bubbles to celebrate!
URL:/philevents/event/fpst-x-ceppa-sophie-grace-chappell-trans-figured-book-launch/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T173000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240606T122307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T122307Z
UID:10002101-1717689600-1717695000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Sophie Grace Chappell ‘Trans figured’ book launch.
DESCRIPTION:Sophie Grace Chappell will present her new book Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World – followed by bubbles to celebrate!
URL:/philevents/event/sophie-grace-chappell-trans-figured-book-launch/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240609
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240508T051610Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Modality: With or Without Possible Worlds?
DESCRIPTION:The University of 58łÔčÏ ArchĂ© Philosophical Research Centre for Logic\, Language\, Metaphysics and Epistemology will be hosting a workshop on Modality\, With or Without Possible Worlds?\n\n \nDESCRIPTION: 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: (i) the challenges associated with exclusively employing possible worlds to clarify our modal discourse about metaphysical necessity and possibility\, among other metaphysical concepts; and (ii) alternative approaches that shed light on such discourse without relying on the concept of a possible world.\n \nDATE AND VENUE: 7 June 2024\, Online on Teams\n \nSPEAKERS: Vera Hoffman-Kolss (University of Bern)\, Barbara Vetter (Freie UniversitĂ€t Berlin)\, Jennifer Wang (Simon Fraser University)\, Mark Jago (University of Nottingham)\, Takashi Tagisawa (California State University)\, and John Divers (Trinity College Dublin).\n\n \n\nREGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/Cnh4zpbyFXPzhg7v8\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nPROVISIONAL SCHEDULE (Note: All times are in British Summer Time):\nEvery time slot includes: the main talk (40 mins)\, and Q&A (20 mins).\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n9:55 – 10:00 Preliminary Remarks \n10:00 – 11:00 Barbara Vetter (Freie UniversitĂ€t Berlin) \n11:00 – 11:15 Break \n11:15 – 12:15 Mark Jago (University of Nottingham) \n12:15 – 12:30 Break \n12:30 – 13:30 Jennifer Wang (Simon Fraser University) \n13:30 – 14:30 Break \n14:30 – 15:30 John Divers (Trinity College Dublin) \n15:30 – 15:45 Break \n15:45 – 16:45 Vera Hoffman-Kolss (University of Bern) \n16:45 – 17:00 Break \n\n17:00 – 18:00 Takashi Yagisawa (California State University) \n\n \n \nTITLES AND ABSTRACTS: \n \n\nTitle: Modal epistemology without worlds: the case of axiom T (Barbara Vetter)\n \nAbstract: Epistemologists of modality often assume that some knowledge of possibility is easy: knowledge by inference from actuality\, via axiom T of modal logic. What is true in this world must be true at some world\, after all; what could be easier? Inference by axiom T takes centre stage in similarity based modal epistemologies like that of Sonia Roca Royes\, but it is generally assumed to be a form of easy modal knowledge. In this talk\, I argue that the role of axiom T in a realistic modal epistemology has been overstated. The case of axiom T also serves as a case study for a general caveat not to project to much of our (modal) logic into a realistic (modal) epistemology.\n\n \n\nTitle: Knowing What it Is (Mark Jago) \nAbstract: Essentialists understand modal properties in terms of the essences of things. Given this view\, it is natural to think that our knowledge of modality ultimately derives from our knowledge of the essences of things. Is that view plausible? Do we genuinely have knowledge of the essences of things\, in a form substantial enough to ground our modal knowledge? The more we pack into the notion of essence to allow it to underpin modal properties\, the harder it is to claim genuine knowledge. I will argue that realists about essence of a certain kind can have the best of both worlds. They can co-opt a conventionalist explanation of our knowledge of essence\, but against the background of a fully realist notion of essence.\n\n\n \n\nTitle: The Explanatory Grounds of De Re Modal Truths (Jennifer Wang)\n\nAbstract: In Naming and Necessity\, Kripke makes a forceful case for the actualist against the so-called “problem of transworld identification”. If the goal is to be able to use possible worlds semantics\, then I think that his response is entirely correct. But if the goal is to provide an explanation of de re modal truths\, then the actualist should reject transworld identity. In this paper\, I argue that the actualist who wants to use possible worlds to explain facts such as “Oscar could have been a movie star” should adopt a purely qualitative conception of possible worlds. Perhaps more surprisingly\, they should combine this with a counterpart-theoretic treatment of de re modality. I will argue that this combination is consistent with actualist motivations\, and with Kripke’s views in particular.\n\n\n \n\nTitle: Modality\, With or Without Possible Worlds? A Quinean Perspective (John Divers)\nAbstract: We may proceed in the philosophy of modality with\, or without\, deploying the device of quantification over possible worlds. How we think of the advantages and disadvantages brought by the respective approaches will be determined for the most part on whether we are presupposing some form of modal realism. Here\, I will address the matter from a modal anti-realist and – more specifically – Quinean perspective\n\n\n \n\nTitle: Counterpossibles\, Causal Exclusion\, and Impossible Worlds (Vera Hoffman-Kolss)\nAbstract: In this paper\, I argue that counterpossible conditionals\, whose truth conditions are formulated in terms of impossible worlds\, can shed new light on the problem of causal exclusion. According to the interventionist version of this problem\, higher-level (e.g.\, mental) properties described by an interventionist causal model are causally pre-empted by the lower-level properties upon which they supervene\, because it is metaphysically impossible to intervene on the higher-level properties without changing at least some of the lower-level properties (which then do all the causal work). Recent debate has shown\, however\, that there are several reasons to allow for counterpossible interventions as well. But once counterpossible interventions are allowed in certain metaphysical contexts\, there is no good reason to ban them from causal exclusion contexts. I argue that this paves the way for a new approach to the causal exclusion problem. The autonomy of higher-level properties can be vindicated by showing that higher-level properties and lower-level properties enter into different counterpossible dependence relations. These counterpossible dependence relations can in turn be interpreted in terms of impossible worlds.\n \nTitle: Ontology of Some Philosophy (Takashi Yagisawa)\n\nAbstract: 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 extent of ontological involvement of some philosophical discussion is considerable. In particular\, philosophical discussion concerning modal metaphysics frequently makes the discussants incur non-trivial ontological commitments.\n\nThree Insights:\n(1 )It is useful to relativize the notion of truth for many philosophical purposes; a sentence is true or false at a truth-relativizer.\n(2) The framework of worlds\, including both possible worlds and impossible worlds\, gives us truth-relativizers for the purposes of explicating the truth conditions of many important kinds of sentences\, in particular\, counterfactual conditional sentences.\n(3) Ontological matters should be understood as matters pertaining to the domain of discourse associated with quantification.\n\nSupposition-Based Argument: “You assert P. Suppose you are right and P is true. Then Q follows. But Q is false. So\, P is false and you are not right”.\n\nClaim: Three insights + Supposition-Based Argument ⇹ a potentially endless sequence of ever-expanding ontological commitments.
URL:/philevents/event/workshop-on-modality-with-or-without-possible-worlds/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240610T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240610T110000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20231109T140824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T140824Z
UID:10001797-1718010000-1718017200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar:
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-51/
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240611T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240611T140000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240512T052647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T070824Z
UID:10002070-1718107200-1718114400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-65/
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240611T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240611T140000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240608T072710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240611T081017Z
UID:10002103-1718107200-1718114400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar: Ethan Landes (University of ZĂŒrich)
DESCRIPTION:Titile: Can Someone Be a Semantic Externalist Experimental Philosopher? \nAbstract: Among experimental philosophy of language\, semantic internalism is not merely the dominant metasemantic view – 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 of the biggest critics of experimental philosophy have been semantic externalists. This talk will argue that this split is not principled. Not only should experimental philosophers interested in the semantic properties of words be using empirical methods\, but many existing experimental studies can be reinterpreted to shed light on externally-grounded semantic properties. The talk will also consider the implications for debates in conceptual engineering.
URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-ethan-landes-university-of-zurich/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240611T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240611T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240512T052647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T070812Z
UID:10002071-1718118000-1718125200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-14/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240611T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240611T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240607T070824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240611T081018Z
UID:10002102-1718118000-1718125200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Seminar – Saito – Relationality: aesthetic and ethical consequences (reading group)
DESCRIPTION:This coming Tuesday (11th)\, the one and only Sebastián 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
URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-saito-relationality-aesthetic-and-ethical-consequences-reading-group/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240612T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240612T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240513T052557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240611T081018Z
UID:10002072-1718204400-1718211600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Isaac Wilhelm (National University of Singapore)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Talk About Types \nAbstract: 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 types\, it is preferable to the languages currently being used in the philosophical literature. For the purposes of metaphysical theorizing\, in other words\, the calculus of constructions is the better language.
URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-isaac-wilhelm-national-university-of-singapore/
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240613T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240613T120000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240514T052429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240611T081018Z
UID:10002073-1718272800-1718280000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/plenary-seminar-11/
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240613T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240613T143000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240514T052429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240611T081018Z
UID:10002074-1718283600-1718289000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Amiya Hashkes (58łÔčÏ & Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amiya Hashkes (58łÔčÏ & Stirling)
URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-amiya-hashkes-st-andrews-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240613T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240613T153000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240514T165355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T165355Z
UID:10002076-1718289000-1718292600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:  \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:/philevents/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-152/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240613T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240613T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20240514T052429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240611T081018Z
UID:10002075-1718290800-1718298000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Pre-Reading: Natural Concepts & Convexity
DESCRIPTION:Hernåndez-Conde\, José V. (2017). A case against convexity in conceptual spaces. Synthese 194 (10):4011-4037.\nhttps://philpapers.org/rec/HERACA-2
URL:/philevents/event/unity-pre-reading-natural-concepts-convexity/
LOCATION:ArchĂ© Seminar Room\, 17-19 College Street\, 58łÔčÏ\, KY169AL
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240614T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240614T173000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
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UID:10002104-1718380800-1718386200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Reading Group – Midnight Sun
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to join us on a cover-to-cover reading of Meyer’s 2020 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 sing up get in touch with the organisers: Naomi Sutton Kachani (ns234@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Sebastián Stuart Betanzos (sasb1@st-andrews.ac.uk). \nFull invite: You are cordially invited to join us on a cover-to-cover reading of Meyer’s 2020 Midnight Sun. This is the much-anticipated reimagining of Twilight (2005)\, by the same author. In this book\, Meyer retells the early story of the meeting between Bella Swan and Edward Cullen through a shift from the former’s limited human gaze to the latter’s supernatural psychic gaze. This switch in narration radically widens the perspectival scope of the story by placing us within the thoughts of a mind with unmediated access to all Other minds around him\, except that of Swan. What implications does this shift have for how we interpret the moral\, aesthetic\, and cultural value of the Twilight saga as a whole?
URL:/philevents/event/fpst-reading-group-midnight-sun/
LOCATION:Online via Teams
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory,Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240617T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240617T110000
DTSTAMP:20260614T051118
CREATED:20231109T140824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T140824Z
UID:10001798-1718614800-1718622000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar:
DESCRIPTION:
URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-52/
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T140000
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SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar
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CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar: Christoph Hoerl
DESCRIPTION:Memory and the feeling of pastness\n\nRecent accounts of episodic memory have revived some ideas familiar from the ‘empiricist theory of memory’\, 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 lines: One is taken to demonstrate the existence of an imagistic ingredient that remembering shares\, e.g.\, with episodic future thinking or sensory imagining; the other that of an affective ingredient (e.g.\, a ‘feeling of pastness’) that distinguishes remembering from these other cognitive activities. I will provide a sketch of the empiricist theory\, taking Russell’s account of memory in The Analysis of Mind as my guide. I will then offer some reasons for thinking that new versions of it found in the current literature on episodic memory are subject to much the same criticisms as their more traditional predecessors.
URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-christoph-hoerl/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T150000
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SUMMARY:FPST Seminar – Tommy Curry (Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Phallicism as Racism against the Male Target: Dehumanization\, Misandric Aggression\, and the Splitting of Gender. \nAbstract: Much of the current theory explaining the vulnerability of racialized outgroup males focus on death. In Adam Jones’s (2000) account of gendercide as well as Jim Sidanius’s (1999) theory of Social Dominance\, outgroup or subordinate males become specifically targeted by dominant male groups for death. This targeting of subordinate males is interpreted as a specific sexual violence as genocides in particular\, but many low level conflicts\, kill civilian battle age men from 15-55 first. But what function then does the rape of subordinate outgroup men serve in these conflicts? This paper will argue that the rape of racialized males in slavery\, Jim Crow\, the Armenian Genocide\, Gaza\, and the Holocaust indicate that sexual violence has always been an integral part of patriarchal societies’ domination of lesser men. Rather than understanding the rape these men as an exception\, this paper will argue that the rape of racialized males\, and their simultaneous construction as the rapist is (and has been) the most visible and dominant process of racial-outgroup male subjugation throughout the 20th century.
URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-tommy-curry-edinburgh/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240619T170000
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar x FPST Seminar: Marta Sznajder (University of Vienna)
DESCRIPTION:Janina Hosiasson’s logic of rational degrees of belief: subjective probability before and after Ramsey \nAbstract: \nIn 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’s decision theory. As an influence on her paper she credited Frank Ramsey\, whose then unpublished “Truth and Probability” she had read shortly after Ramsey’s death in 1930. But Hosiasson also insisted that she had “previously thought independently on similar lines”. \nThis raises two questions. First\, what is it exactly that Hosiasson-Lindenbaum took herself to be in agreement on with Ramsey\, or what part of her approach has been inspired by his paper? And second: what did she “previously [think] independently”? In the talk\, I will try to answer the two questions\, drawing on Hosiasson-Lindenbaum’s work published before her contact with Ramsey’s work\, as well as shortly after (and which has not received any attention to date). \nThis reconstruction of Hosiasson’s early philosophical views contributes to our understanding of how the different philosophical interpretations of probability that took shape in the first half of the 20th century developed in their early stages. Hosiasson  eventually saw herself as working on the logic of rational degrees of belief\, and was not invested in any external justifications of the rules of such logic\, especially ones which would ground it through pragmatic arguments. At the same time\, while she built on Keynes’s formal results about a posteriori probabilities\, Hosiasson does not appear to have taken on board his interpretation of probability as an objective\, semantic relation the access to which is direct\, but not always possible. Hosiasson turns out to be much closer in her approach to what we have come to think of the late stages of Rudolf Carnap’s inductive logic project—which is an interesting footnote to the history of the field\, given the influence that late Hosiassson’s work had on the early inductive logic of Carnap.
URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-x-fpst-seminar-marta-sznajder-university-of-vienna/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group,Philosophy & Social Theory Arché Seminar
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SUMMARY:Plenary Discussion Brunch with Marta Sznajder (University of Vienna)
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Writing the history of women in analytic philosophy – how and why?
URL:/philevents/event/plenary-discussion-brunch-with-marta-sznajder-university-of-vienna/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T143000
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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Viviane Fairbank (58łÔčÏ & Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Viviane Fairbank (58łÔčÏ & Stirling) \nShould Science Journalists Know About Science?\nDespite scientific evidence to the contrary\, many journalists in the 2000s reported on one researcher’s unfounded claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. They treated the issue as an open question that required equal consideration of “both sides”: those who thought there was a causal link between vaccines and autism\, and those who did not. Many commentators blamed journalists for the avoidable\, unfortunate results that followed\, including measles outbreaks among unvaccinated children in the US and UK. \nThe inclination is to interpret the MMR-vaccine case as showing not the impossibility of good journalism on politicized scientific issues\, but rather the dangers of bad journalism: if science journalists had done their job properly\, the idea goes\, their work would have served to illuminate scientific knowledge instead of obfuscating it. This prompts the question: In what sense did journalists fail to grasp the relevant science regarding vaccines and autism\, as their critics have claimed? And\, more generally\, to what epistemic norms ought we hold science journalists today? I call this the Epistemic Challenge for Science Journalism (ECSJ). \nIn this paper\, I aim to answer the ECSJ by bringing together insights from practicing journalists and journalism educators\, scholars of science communication\, and epistemologists. In §1\, I detail the MMR-vaccine case and outline the Epistemic Challenge for Science Journalism. In §2\, I present the dominant answer to the ECSJ in the science communication and journalism education literature\, which I call the Knowledge-Based Solution\, and I argue that it is unconvincing: knowledge of science is neither sufficient nor necessary for good science journalism. In §3\, I propose an alternative\, which I call the Confirmation-Based Solution\, and I show that it is able to make sense of the MMR-vaccine case and others in a satisfying way. In §4\, I turn to recent debates about journalistic objectivity\, and I argue that the Confirmation-Based Solution can respond to important concerns voiced by journalists and their audiences. §5 discusses my proposal in the context of philosophical debates about epistemic norms of assertion. §6 concludes.
URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-viviane-fairbank-st-andrews-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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