Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽Helen De Cruz (St Louis): “Ameliorative genealogy and hunter-gatherer philosophies”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA!). Talk: Kieran Setiya (MIT)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜Week of Events
Monday, October 12, 2020
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October 12, 2020 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Roy Sorenson
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October 12, 2020 -Cover to Cover Reading Group (Kamm’s *Almost Over*)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Roy Sorenson
Title: Mini-Meno: How to Get More Out of Your Transmission Abstract:聽My positive thesis is that competent deduction can add justification not already present in the premise 鈥� contrary to a tradition inaugurated by Plato鈥檚 dialogue Meno. My negative thesis is there is a novel counter-example to Counter-closure. According to this conservative principle, if you now…
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
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October 13, 2020 -Language and Mind Seminar | Emilia Wilson
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October 13, 2020 -Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽Helen De Cruz (St Louis): “Ameliorative genealogy and hunter-gatherer philosophies”
Language and Mind Seminar | Emilia Wilson
Abstract: In this presentation I explore the harm of positive assault portrayals, which refer to depictions of sexual assault in which the victim is shown to initially refuse some sexual contact but subsequently change their mind or enjoy the assault. I propose that, contrary to some popular feminist analyses, the significance of positive assault portrayals…
Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽Helen De Cruz (St Louis): “Ameliorative genealogy and hunter-gatherer philosophies”
Abstract. 鈥� According to Mary Midgley (1919鈥�2018), philosophy is like plumbing: “Each system supplies vital needs for those who live above it. Each is hard to repair when it does go wrong, because neither of them was ever consciously planned as a whole鈥�. In her view, philosophy responds to basic needs that are fundamental to…
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
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October 14, 2020 -Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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October 14, 2020 -Feminist Philosophy & Social Theory Seminar
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October 14, 2020 -Professor Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History, University of Edinburgh
Professor Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History, University of Edinburgh
Professor Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History, University of Edinburgh, will present this year鈥檚 Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality. For the Teams Live Event link, when available, please contact Dr Kate Ferris on kf50@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
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October 15, 2020 -Super Special Seminar tba
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October 15, 2020 -CEPPA Talk
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October 15, 2020 -Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA!). Talk: Kieran Setiya (MIT)
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October 15, 2020 -CEPPA Talk – Kieran Setiya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
CEPPA Talk – Kieran Setiya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title: ‘What is Morality?’ Abstract:聽In 鈥淢odern Moral Philosophy,鈥� Anscombe argued that the moral vocabulary does not correspond to any concept of Aristotelian ethics, that it derives from a confused response to the ethics of divine of command, and that it is literally meaningless. This essay contends that Anscombe was wrong. Morality corresponds to Aristotle鈥檚 general…
Friday, October 16, 2020
Saturday, October 17, 2020
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Sunday, October 18, 2020
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