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Chinese Cinema: Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Mint on Tour ※情盡豜堁俴挐桯數赫§is a touring programme of Chinese cinema coming to Scotland this Autumn. The programme is presented by MINT Chinese Film Festival (MINT CFF) x Aya Films and is a mix of contemporary, classic and short Chinese films made by and about women. The… |
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TALK+SCREENING Date: Wednesday 11th of September Place: School V Time: From 4 to 5.30 Organised by the Centre for Screen Cultures (CSC), the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) and the 58勛圖 Institute for Gender Studies (StAIGS) Invited speaker: Miguel Errazu (Universidad Aut車noma de Madrid) Convener: Isabel Segu赤 (Dept Film Studies and… |
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Abstract: Even if philosophers can＊t agree on whether to locate the source of vagueness in the world, in our language, or in our knowledge, we can agree that at least some ordinary mereological claims are vague. For some candidate vague object, like Edinburgh or Mt Everest, ?we may regard some of its parts as being… |
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Wee gathering to hang, catch up, and start the new academic year. All welcome! Drinks and snacks provided. |
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This week we will meet to discuss Koshka Duff’s article ‘Just Police Violence: Liberal ideology and the critique of violence from Walter Benjamin to Black Lives Matter’,?available here. Location: Edgecliffe G03
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Title: Strip-searching as Abjectification: Racism and Sexual Violence in British Policing Abstract: Co-authored with Tom Kemp (Criminology, University of Nottingham), this paper examines police strip-searching practices in the UK. Drawing on newly acquired Freedom of Information data, publicly available testimonies, thematic analysis of official literature and media reports, and first-hand experience, we advance three arguments.… |
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Parsons, Josh (2007). Theories of Location. In Dean Zimmerman (ed.),?Oxford Studies in Metaphysics:Volume 3: Volume 3. Oxford University Press UK. |
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Title: Why it Matters When ※Human§ Means ※White§ or ※Man§ Abstract: This paper is part of a larger project that seeks to vindicate a claim often made in feminist and decolonial theory, but whose relevance to political philosophy is rarely understood: the claim that the concept of the human has been a vehicle of oppression.… |
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This week the Moral Philosophy Reading Group will be discussing Kai Spiekermann’s paper ‘Irreversible Loss’. Abstract: This chapter offers three reasons for trying to avoid some irreversible losses. First, there is a prudential reason for avoiding irreversible loss in order to keep options open in the future in the face of uncertainty. Second, humans have…
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Title: Philosophical Foundations of Green-House Gas Accounting Abstract: International agreements such as the Kyoto protocol and the Paris agreement require countries to measure and track their greenhouse gas emissions.? Companies (as well as universities and other organisations) are required by governmental regulations or their own net-zero goals to do the same.? Greenhouse gas accounting is… |
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Correia, Fabrice (2022). A General Theory of Location Based on the Notion of Entire Location.?Journal of Philosophical Logic?51 (3):555-582. Abstract:?It would be a good thing to have at our disposal a general theory of location that is neutral with respect to the view that some objects have more than one exact location, the view that… |
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Title: ?‘What?can(not)?social?norms?do?’ Abstract: In this (very) exploratory paper I investigate the relationship between social normativity and other domains of normativity. I suggest that given a metaphysically productive relationship between pernicious social norms and ideological social construction, pernicious social norms can create ontologically oppressive kinds, and consequently this can mar some seemingly valuable features of epistemic… |
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Pre-read session: Dorr, C. (2016), To Be F Is To Be G. Philosophical Perspectives, 30: 39-134. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12079 |
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This week we are discussing Pamela Hieronymi’s ＆Of Metaethics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism＊. Here is the abstract: In his 1982 article, T. M. Scanlon noted that, despite the widespread attention to Rawls＊ A Theory of Justice, the appeal of contractualism as a moral theory had been under-appreciated. It seems to me that, nearly…
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Title:?Two Moralities of Recognition Abstract: According to moralities of recognition, fundamental moral norms are norms for living together. Moral norms explain how living in unity is possible despite being separate individuals, they explain how we can relate to each other as persons that are more than mere sources of benefits and burdens, obstacles and opportunities.… |
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We are proud to present the Second Session of CEPPA Film Club. This time we will gather from 4:30pm onwards to watch and discuss Studio Ghibli’s absolute classic ‘Princess Mononoke’ (see trailer here). The movie will start SHARP at 5pm. Please see below for some suggested prereads/prewatches, suggested by Miguel. If you’d like to volunteer… |
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