7 events found.
Week of Events
Monday, October 5, 2020
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October 5, 2020 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Claudio Calosi Title: How to Build Things from Atoms
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October 5, 2020 -Cover to Cover Reading Group (Kamm’s *Almost Over*)
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October 5, 2020 -Cover to Cover Reading Group (Kamm’s *Almost Over*)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Claudio Calosi Title: How to Build Things from Atoms
Abstract: Mereological atomism is the thesis that everything is ultimately composed of atomic parts. Typically, this thesis is characterized by an axiom stating, more simply, that everything has atomic parts. The present paper argues that the success of the standard characterization crucially depends both on how the notion of composition is related to the notion…
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
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October 6, 2020 -Language and Mind Seminar
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October 6, 2020 -Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Paul 脡gr茅 (Paris) & Cathal O’Madagain (Ben Gu茅rir): “Concept utility”
Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Paul 脡gr茅 (Paris) & Cathal O’Madagain (Ben Gu茅rir): “Concept utility”
Abstract. 鈥� Practices of concept-revision among scientists suggest that concepts can be improved. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union revised the concept PLANET so that it excluded Pluto, and insisting that the result was an improvement. But what could it mean for one concept or conceptual scheme to be better than another? Here we draw…
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Thursday, October 8, 2020
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October 8, 2020 -Super Special Seminar tba
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October 8, 2020 -CEPPA Talk – Martin Smith (Edinburgh)
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October 8, 2020 -Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA!). Talk: Martin Smith (Edinburgh)
CEPPA Talk – Martin Smith (Edinburgh)
Title: ‘Lexical Priority, Decision Theory and De Minimis Risk’ Abstract: Say that one moral requirement takes lexical priority聽over another just in case violations of the former can never be outweighed or counterbalanced by violations of the latter.聽While lexical priority is arguably a feature of many ethical systems, attempts to model it within the framework of…
Friday, October 9, 2020
Saturday, October 10, 2020
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Sunday, October 11, 2020
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