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Title: The Paradox at the Boundary of Everything Abstract: TBC |
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Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language 鈥� one sees this in feminist work on pornography 鈥� or…
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Title: The Sex/Gender Distinction, Revisited Abstract: This talk will build on an earlier chapter in my thesis where I sketched out two conceptual resources from psychoanalysis, these being the body-schema and the universal bisexual potential of the human body (the聽UBP). The body-schema is the means through which we apprehend having a felt-sense of the body… |
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Title: Saying Something with Nothing Abstract: Ontological nihilism is the view that fundamentally there are no objects. Whilst it is an increasingly popular view, nihilists face a so-called expressive adequacy challenge. Standard natural and formal languages carve up the world into at least objects and properties/relations satisfied by those objects. But the nihilist doesn鈥檛 think… |
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Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism (joint work 聽with N. Pedersen) The dominant approach in the literature on risk is to adopt a monist stance by taking the probabilistic notion of risk to be the only proper notion. However, there is a growing philosophical literature on non-probabilistic notions of risk. In this…
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This week we will discuss Cora Diamond’s classic paper ‘The Difficulty of Reality’. Location: Edgecliffe G03
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Title:聽The Idea of Ancestry in African Philosophy Abstract: This paper concerns itself with the rationality of belief in ancestral existence. Although belief in ancestral existence remains widespread globally, I shall focus on a-thinned out version of African forms of this belief. 鈥楾hinned-out鈥� in that I am not interested in this or that substantive version of… |
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Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language 鈥� one sees this in feminist work on pornography 鈥� or… |
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Title: Commitment Issues? Nominalism and the Semantics of Empty Terms (In Late-Medieval Logic) Abstract: Usually, the label “Nominalism” evokes sorne kind of ontological parsimony. Ockham’s Razor epitomizes this understanding of Nominalism: “it is pointless to do with more things what can be done with fewer”鈥攐r in a later formulation “entities should not be multiplied beyond… |
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We are proud to present the Fourth Session of the CEPPA Film Club. This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and Stories We Tell聽 (see trailer here). The movie will start SHARP at 17:15. Recommended reading and watching material Articles: Bill Nichols –聽Performative documentaries聽(in聽Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture聽p.92-106).… |
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Rumfitt, Ian (2015).聽The Boundary Stones of Thought: An Essay in the Philosophy of Logic. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Ch. 8: The Challenge from Vagueness https://philpapers.org/rec/RUMTBS |
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Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language 鈥� one sees this in feminist work on pornography 鈥� or… |
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This will be an online event (7pm-8pm)聽for members of the public. The team from the University of St聽Andrews will be sharing information and inviting discussion. TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE Recent advances in artificial intelligence, biomarker research, genomic sequencing, and big data analytics are revolutionising diagnosis, enabling more accurate life and health expectancy predictions. These advancements… |
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This Friday, the Arch茅 term wraps up with another all-day all-Arch茅 get-together, featuring research presentations聽from Sabina Dom铆nguez Parrado, Lara Scheibli, Stephen Read, and Franz Berto, and five-minute lightning talks聽from brave presenters including Jessica Brown, Simon Prosser, Christopher Masterman, and more. We’ll be in G03 from 9:30am. 9:45: Stephen Read (Insolubles in Fourteenth-Century Logic, or: What… |
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Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language 鈥� one sees this in feminist work on pornography 鈥� or… |
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