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WIP Session: Henrique Formigoni Morais. Title: Is mereology logic? Abstract: Some philosophers have suggested that mereology is, in some sense, part of logic broadly understood. The aim of this talk is to briefly examine this idea, both in meaning and tenability. I distinguish a number of 鈥渕ereologicist鈥� hypotheses and how they might be related. I…
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Link: Badura, How Imagination can justify |
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12 teams from high schools across Britain converge on St. Andrews for a 1-day competition to determine who takes home the cup! |
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The Inferentialism Reading group is running over the first three seminars of this semester of M&L. On April 29th, Greg Restall will be leading a discussion Hans-Johann Glock’s “Why Rules Ought to Matter“. These sessions will be run as ‘pre-read’ discussions, and participants will be expected to have read the paper ahead of the seminar.…
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Reading: Ida Miczke will lead us in discussion of Douglas Portmore鈥檚 (2007) paper, 鈥楥onsequentializing Moral Theories鈥�. Location: Edgecliffe 104 |
5 events,Co-organised by Brown, Goldberg and Saul. Speakers: Cepollaro, Marsili, Peet, Popa-Wyatt, Zakkou. Further details from the arche website.
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April 30th, 聽Arche Philosophical Research Centre, 58吃瓜 University. Venue School II. Organiser: Jessica Brown There is a widespread consensus that the online spread of disinformation, misinformation, and hatred have had dramatic and pernicious effects on politics worldwide.聽 It has arguably contributed in particular to the rise of authoritarian movements and governments, and to the…
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We are proud to present the Twelfth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). On this occasion we have a special guest from the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Simon Lee, who will be discussing聽Twister聽(1996) with us. Simon Lee is, among other things, a storm chaser, so he’ll be… |
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Prof. Jennifer Saul, the new Arch茅/CEPPA Professorial Fellow, will give a talk entitled 鈥淲hen Norm Violations Come out of the Shadows.鈥� Venue: Edgfecliffe 104 There will be lunch provided afterwards.
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We are delighted to invite you to a special joint CEPPA/Arch茅 Seminar to introduce the new Professorial Fellow Jennifer Saul, who will give a talk about her recent research, entitled ‘When Norm Violations Come Out of the Shadows’. |
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5 events,The conference will investigate the notions of care聽and indifference聽in Ancient Philosophy, broadly construed, from Plato to post-Hellenistic Philosophical traditions. Papers will address a wide range of topics, and especially how the notions of care and indifference shaped ethical, theological, cosmological, and political thought in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Programme 5 May 14.00-14.15 Introductions 14.15-14.45 Flora… |
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A one-day workshop on the philosophy of imagination, addressing such questions as: What is the epistemic role of imagination? How does it work in our engagement with fiction and in thought experiments? How does it help with planning ahead? How does it relate to inner speech and to other attitudes, such as belief and desire?… |
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Invited Speaker: Tahko (in-person) “Natural Kind Fundamentalism” ABSTRACT: This paper defends Natural Kind Fundamentalism (NKF), the view that the ontological category of natural kind is fundamental. I develop a primitivist account of categorial fundamentality based on the Complete Categorial Basis (CCB) criterion, which requires that fundamental categories form a complete and minimal system irreducible to… |
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Graham Priest鈥檚 simple three-valued logic LP has many curious properties. It has the same valid formulas as classical logic, but differs from classical logic when it comes to valid聽sequents. The valid sequents do not uniquely characterise the logic: it is possible to have more than one different LP-鈥渘egation鈥�, each of which satisfies all the LP-requirements,…
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Reading:Next Wednesday, 13 May, the MPRG will meet for a special session with this year鈥檚 Knox Lecturer, Professor聽Tommie Shelby (Harvard). We will discuss Shelby鈥檚 paper, 鈥楬ow Racial Stereotypes Wrong: A Political Ethics of Belief鈥�. Location: Edgecliffe 104 |
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Title: Solidarity, Politics, and Intellectual Life Abstract:聽This lecture will examine what role intellectuals from oppressed groups should play in the struggle for their group’s liberation. It draws on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois and Richard Wright鈥攃anonical figures in the Black Radical tradition鈥攖o ask whether such intellectuals should subordinate their interest in art… |
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Location: tbc BEAR IN MIND THE TIME IS ONLY INDICATIVE. A DEFINITIVE TIME WILL BE CONFIRMED CLOSER TO THE DATE |
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WIP Session: Greenough et al “Essentially Networked Entities: The Case Study of Concepts”
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The doctrine of divine simplicity serves two roles in Christian theology鈥攊t upholds the creator-creation distinction by saying that only the divine ontology is absolutely simple whereas every other created being is a composite, and it supports divine aseity by identifying the divine attributes with God. Traditional and contemporary versions of divine simplicity have filled these…
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Reading: Kymlicka’s and Donaldson鈥檚 (2016) paper, 鈥楲ocating Animals in Political Philosophy鈥�. Jenny Mace will lead us through the paper.聽 Location: Edgecliffe 104 |
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A new proposal on weighing epistemic and practical reasons for belief
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We are proud to present the thirteenth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss T谩r (see trailer here) with our Ida Miczke. Here is a selection of readings (and one hearing) to do before the session: To read:… |
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Title: Good Moves: A Risk-Theoretic Account of Telic Know-How Abstract: I defend a new account of telic know-how, what I call the Good Moves (GM) account. To know how to complete a telic task T is to possess a stable, trainable disposition to select and sequence good moves across T’s state space, where a move…
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An increasingly popular view is that abstracta are thin鈥攖heir existence alone makes little or no demand on the world. The most sophisticated defence of this view to date is the version of abstractionism found in Linnebo’s recent book Thin Objects (2018). On this view, good abstraction principles should be understood as involving claims about asymmetric…
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Title:聽Democratic Instrumentalism and the Threat of Authoritarianism Abstract: The instrumentalism of the title says roughly that the form of governance that would be feasibly best in any circumstances is any one whose establishment and operation would bring about consequences morally no worse than those of any other that might instead be put in place.聽 I… |
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