BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Philosophy events - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Philosophy events X-ORIGINAL-URL:/philevents X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Philosophy events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241202T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241202T110000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241102T195333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241202T222757Z UID:10002241-1733131800-1733137200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Strode’s Consequentiae DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-strodes-consequentiae-12/ LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58Թ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241202T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241202T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241102T195346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241202T222757Z UID:10002242-1733140800-1733148000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Cancelled DESCRIPTION:Winter Reflectorium URL:/philevents/event/unity-seminar-wip-tbc/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241203T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241203T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241103T195349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T224309Z UID:10002243-1733238000-1733245200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online DESCRIPTION:Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression \nAbstract: 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 – one sees this in feminist work on pornography – or worse\, to ignore pictures altogether when the topic at hand least typically pictorial or typically has a significant pictorial dimension – one sees this in Jason Stanley’s work on propaganda. \nAgainst this linguisticism\, I argue that central and influential forms of oppressive “speech” are in fact pictorial and that to understand how they do their oppressive work\, we must approach pictures as pictures rather than as forms of spoken or written language. In this paper\, I first examine one glaring case of linguisticism\, then say something about what I think is going on here\, and finally briefly examine examples of oppressive pictures and give the outlines of an explanation of how they do their oppressive work. \nPlease note that I will be discussing pictures that glorify and eroticize rape\, and pictures that mock\, shame\, and demean Black persons. I will also mention pictures of lynchings. I will also briefly show some of these pictures\, though not the lynching pictures. I will not leave any pictures up for long because they are triggering or otherwise injurious for many of us. That\, after all\, is part of the point of this paper. I will give warning before I show or mention these pictures. URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-27/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241204T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241204T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241104T195340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T225316Z UID:10002244-1733324400-1733331600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Dr Graziana Ciola (Radboud University\, Nijmegen) DESCRIPTION:Title: Commitment Issues? Nominalism and the Semantics of Empty Terms (In Late-Medieval Logic)\nAbstract: 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”—or in a later formulation “entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”. You can be a nominalist about all sorts of things—e.g.\, universals\, abstract items\, states of affairs\, possible or impossible worlds\, and so on. As far as Nominalism goes\, William of Ockham was probably as hardcore as it gets\, both in his ontology and in his semantics.\nOckham’s semantic account became the baseline picture shared by a group of later authors. These logicians embraced Ockham’s broad outlook and approach\, without shying away from even major doctrinal disagreements. Along with Ockham’s general perspective\, they also inherited Ockham’s problems.\nHere\, I am especially interested in the problems that 14th-century nominalists had with handling empty terms\, i.e.\, those terms that do not have—and sometimes cannat have—a referent in the world. Such terms are problematic in medieval logic in general and for post-Ockham nominalist logicians in particular. Sorne of these logicians seemingly do away with ontological parsimony\, buying into all sorts of nonexistent but imaginable referents (imaginabilia)—even those that are intrinsically impossible because they are self-contradictory. The most renowned proponent of this type of view was Marsilius of Inghen. Marsilius’ semantics of empty terms became the standard term of comparison against John Buridan’s just as famous alternative doctrine.\nIn this talk\, I explain the problematic background of empty terms in Aristotelian logic and the additional struggles faced by nominalist semantics. Then\, I compare Buridan’s and Marsilius’ alternative accounts of necessarily empty terms. Is Marsilius committed to a whole lot of nonexistent entities? Does he do so beyond necessity\, pointlessly doing with more things what could be done with fewer? What would this commitrnent amount to? How can it be compatible with being a nominalist? URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-dr-graziana-ciola-radboud-university-nijmegen/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T143000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241105T201007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T230837Z UID:10002245-1733403600-1733409000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-38/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T153000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241107T123934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241124T132308Z UID:10002246-1733409000-1733412600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group DESCRIPTION: Location: Edgecliffe G03 URL:/philevents/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-169/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T200000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241125T132310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T133916Z UID:10002267-1733418000-1733428800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy Club – Stories We Tell DESCRIPTION: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  (see trailer here). \nThe movie will start SHARP at 17:15. \nRecommended reading and watching material\nArticles:\n\nBill Nichols – Performative documentaries (in Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture p.92-106).\nHannah Kim – “Life as a ‘Non-standard’ Narrative”\nGregory Currie – Interpreting the Unreliable\nNancy Henry and George Levine – George Eliot and the Art of Realism (the last paragraph from page 6 to bottom of p. 9).\nKate J. Waites – Sarah Polley’s Documemoir “Stories We Tell”: The Refracted Subject\n\n\nMovies: \n\nSing Sing (2023 Dir. Greg Kwedar)\nMarriage Italian style (1964 Dir. Vittorio De Sica) URL:/philevents/event/film-and-philosophy-club-stories-we-tell/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/philevents/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Stories-we-tell-xwKiWU.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241209T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241209T110000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241109T203909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241209T230812Z UID:10002249-1733736600-1733742000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Strode’s Consequentiae DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-strodes-consequentiae-13/ LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58Թ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241209T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241209T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241113T205329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241209T230812Z UID:10002255-1733745600-1733752800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Vagueness & Topology DESCRIPTION:Rumfitt\, Ian (2015). The Boundary Stones of Thought: An Essay in the Philosophy of Logic. Oxford\, England: Oxford University Press. \nCh. 8: The Challenge from Vagueness \nhttps://philpapers.org/rec/RUMTBS \n  URL:/philevents/event/unity-seminar-pre-read-proximity-spaces-2/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241210T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241210T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241110T205402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241210T230820Z UID:10002252-1733842800-1733850000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online DESCRIPTION:Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression \nAbstract: 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 – one sees this in feminist work on pornography – or worse\, to ignore pictures altogether when the topic at hand least typically pictorial or typically has a significant pictorial dimension – one sees this in Jason Stanley’s work on propaganda. \nAgainst this linguisticism\, I argue that central and influential forms of oppressive “speech” are in fact pictorial and that to understand how they do their oppressive work\, we must approach pictures as pictures rather than as forms of spoken or written language. In this paper\, I first examine one glaring case of linguisticism\, then say something about what I think is going on here\, and finally briefly examine examples of oppressive pictures and give the outlines of an explanation of how they do their oppressive work. \nPlease note that I will be discussing pictures that glorify and eroticize rape\, and pictures that mock\, shame\, and demean Black persons. I will also mention pictures of lynchings. I will also briefly show some of these pictures\, though not the lynching pictures. I will not leave any pictures up for long because they are triggering or otherwise injurious for many of us. That\, after all\, is part of the point of this paper. I will give warning before I show or mention these pictures. URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-28/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241211T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241211T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241111T205343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241211T230812Z UID:10002253-1733929200-1733936400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-36/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241212T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241212T143000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241112T205353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241212T230811Z UID:10002254-1734008400-1734013800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-39/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241212T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241212T200000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241202T132309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241212T140813Z UID:10002269-1734030000-1734033600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Early Diagnosis: Handling Knowing Public Webinar DESCRIPTION:This will be an online event (7pm-8pm) for members of the public. The team from the University of St Andrews will be sharing information and inviting discussion. \nTO REGISTER IN ADVANCE \nRecent 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 raise all sorts of challenging issues. Early diagnosis raises the possibility that a potential parent might have specific\, personalised\, information suggesting they’ll be unable to nurture their child until they become self-sufficient. Early diagnosis introduces the possibility of rejecting a job applicant because of their likelihood of developing a mental disorder in the future. State pensions disproportionately benefit the long-lived so perhaps the pension eligibility age should be personalised based on the individual’s life expectancy. \nHow might we handle this sort of increasingly accurate knowledge?  Our prior family experiences might help. It might be that wisdom in our communities comes from a religious tradition. There are perhaps philosophical perspectives that we would draw upon. Studies in psychology could be another resource. \nThis webinar is an opportunity to learn about new advances in early diagnosis and to share in discussions about where we might turn to handle this new knowledge about our own future health. \nThe event is part of a collaboration between the School of Medicine (the Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis)\, the department of Philosophy and the School of Divinity of the University of St Andrews. \nProgramme \nWhat is early diagnosis? Prof. Peter Donnelly\nWhy does it matter? Dr Morven Shearer\nHow might we handle knowing? Dr Eric Stoddart\nScenarios for discussion – led by Dr Ben Sachs-Cobbe URL:/philevents/event/early-diagnosis-handling-knowing-public-webinar/ LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241213T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241213T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241121T213828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241213T232329Z UID:10002264-1734082200-1734111000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:All Arché Research Day (Winter 2024) DESCRIPTION:This Friday\, the Arché term wraps up with another all-day all-Arché get-together\, featuring research presentations from Sabina Domínguez Parrado\, Lara Scheibli\, Stephen Read\, and Franz Berto\, and five-minute lightning talks from brave presenters including Jessica Brown\, Simon Prosser\, Christopher Masterman\, and more. \nWe’ll be in G03 from 9:30am. \n9:45: Stephen Read (Insolubles in Fourteenth-Century Logic\, or: What Have I Been Doing For The Last Seven Years) \n10:45: Coffee Break \n11:15: Lightning Talks: Simon Prosser (Mental Hypertime)\, Jessica Brown (Defending Epistemology)\, Sophie Nagler (Two logicians walk into a bar… A talk of misunderstandings)\, … \n11:45: Sabina Domínguez Parrado (The Semantic Motivation for Logical Pluralism) \n1:00: Lunch Break \n2:00: Franz Berto (From the Gospel According to David Lewis: Counterfactuals\, §3.2 — and Beyond) \n3:00: Coffee Break \n3:15: Lightning Talks: Christopher Masterman (Explaining Composition)\, Greg Restall (What Can We Mean?)\, … \n3:45: Lara Scheibli (Why Professors Should Not Sleep With Their Students – The Epistemology of Consent and Professor-Student Sex) \nAll of the presentations are in-person. The Teams link is provided for Arché Members who are not able to attend in person. URL:/philevents/event/all-arche-research-day-2/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Workshops END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241216T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241216T110000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241116T212341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T233814Z UID:10002258-1734341400-1734346800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Strode’s Consequentiae DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-strodes-consequentiae-14/ LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58Թ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241216T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241216T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241109T203909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T233815Z UID:10002250-1734350400-1734357600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: No Session DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/unity-seminar-pre-read-vagueness-topology/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241217T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241217T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241117T212340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241217T233811Z UID:10002260-1734447600-1734454800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online DESCRIPTION:Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression \nAbstract: 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 – one sees this in feminist work on pornography – or worse\, to ignore pictures altogether when the topic at hand least typically pictorial or typically has a significant pictorial dimension – one sees this in Jason Stanley’s work on propaganda. \nAgainst this linguisticism\, I argue that central and influential forms of oppressive “speech” are in fact pictorial and that to understand how they do their oppressive work\, we must approach pictures as pictures rather than as forms of spoken or written language. In this paper\, I first examine one glaring case of linguisticism\, then say something about what I think is going on here\, and finally briefly examine examples of oppressive pictures and give the outlines of an explanation of how they do their oppressive work. \nPlease note that I will be discussing pictures that glorify and eroticize rape\, and pictures that mock\, shame\, and demean Black persons. I will also mention pictures of lynchings. I will also briefly show some of these pictures\, though not the lynching pictures. I will not leave any pictures up for long because they are triggering or otherwise injurious for many of us. That\, after all\, is part of the point of this paper. I will give warning before I show or mention these pictures. URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-anne-eaton-uic-online-2/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241218T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241218T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241118T212342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241218T233810Z UID:10002261-1734534000-1734541200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-37/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241219T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241219T143000 DTSTAMP:20260613T010244 CREATED:20241119T212343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241219T233811Z UID:10002262-1734613200-1734618600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-41/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR