Language and Mind Seminar: Talk by Deborah Marber: “The Counterfactual Imagination: what we learn from engaging with fiction”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹ÏConceptual Engineering Seminar | Allison Koslow (MIT). “Going on in the same way”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹ÏEpistemology Seminar: Catarina Dutilh Novaes: “The Social Epistemology of Mathematical Proofs”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹ÏMedieval Logic Seminar: John Dumbleton, Summa Logicae
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹ÏWeek of Events
Monday, June 22, 2020
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June 22, 2020 -Metaphysics & Logic Seminar Daniel Nolan Title: Morals of the Story: Impossible Fiction
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June 22, 2020 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar
Metaphysics & Logic Seminar Daniel Nolan Title: Morals of the Story: Impossible Fiction
Abstract We can tell tales not just of what does not happen, but of what cannot happen. I think this phenomenon can tell us two kinds of philosophically interesting things. It tells us interesting things about fiction and how to understand it. It also tells us interesting things beyond fiction: about how representation works, about…
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
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June 23, 2020 -Language and Mind Seminar: Talk by Deborah Marber: “The Counterfactual Imagination: what we learn from engaging with fiction”
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June 23, 2020 -Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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June 23, 2020 -Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Allison Koslow (MIT). “Going on in the same way”
Language and Mind Seminar: Talk by Deborah Marber: “The Counterfactual Imagination: what we learn from engaging with fiction”
Deborah Marber will give a talk on “The Counterfactual Imagination: what we learn from engaging with fiction”. If you want to join our Zoom session, please send me an e-mail (si24@)
Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Allison Koslow (MIT). “Going on in the same way”
Abstract. — Do conceptual revisions change the subject? Do revolutionary analyses of familiar kinds? A standard picture of meaning — that an expression’s truth conditions are essential to it — suggests so. I present an alternative. The novel usages philosophers propose have analogues in ordinary discourse that figure in a family of puzzles about diachronic…
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Friday, June 26, 2020
Saturday, June 27, 2020
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Sunday, June 28, 2020
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