Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Helen Beebee (University of Manchester)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn): “Measuring Norms”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Emmalon Davis (UMich) “Challenging the Pursuit of Novelty”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜Week of Events
Breaking Down the Barriers: Applied Conceptual Engineering (ACE)
Breaking Down the Barriers: Applied Conceptual Engineering (ACE)
DESCRIPTION Conceptual engineering focuses on how best to assess and improve our conceptual apparatuses. In less than half a decade, it has become a central topic of contemporary analytic philosophy. Current work in conceptual engineering goes in two main directions. Case study research, on the one hand, which focuses on specific concepts and then…
Monday, May 10, 2021
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May 10, 2021 -Medieval Logic Seminar: Dumbleton, Summa Logicae
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May 10, 2021 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Helen Beebee (University of Manchester)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Helen Beebee (University of Manchester)
Title: The Genesis of Lewis鈥檚 Counterfactual Analysis of Causation Abstract: Lewis presented a prototype counterfactual analysis of causation back in 1958 鈥� aged just 16 or 17 鈥� in the very first undergraduate philosophy essay he ever wrote. I place this paper in its historical context, relating it to the state of the debate at…
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
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May 11, 2021 -Language and Mind Seminar
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May 11, 2021 -Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn): “Measuring Norms”
Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn): “Measuring Norms”
ABSTRACT. 鈥斅燭BA ZOOM INFO Meeting ID:聽892 5895 0975 Password:聽ACEW21 Invite link:聽here
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
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May 12, 2021 -Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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May 12, 2021 -CEPPA Talk 鈥� Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Lok Chan (Duke University)
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May 12, 2021 -Philosophy & Social Theory Arch茅 Seminar
CEPPA Talk 鈥� Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Lok Chan (Duke University)
Title: ‘Should Responsibility Affect Who Gets a Kidney?’ Abstract: About 98,000 people in the US are waiting for a kidney transplant, but only around 20,000 kidneys become available each year. As a result, doctors sometimes have to decide who gets a kidney. Many people (though few medical providers) hold that, when two patients need the…
Thursday, May 13, 2021
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May 13, 2021 -Super Special Seminar tba
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May 13, 2021 -Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Emmalon Davis (UMich) “Challenging the Pursuit of Novelty”
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May 13, 2021 -CEPPA Talk 鈥� Emmalon Davis (Michigan)
Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Emmalon Davis (UMich) “Challenging the Pursuit of Novelty”
Abstract:聽Novelty鈥攗nderstood as the value of saying something new鈥攁ppears to be a good-making feature of a philosophical contribution. Beyond this, however, novelty functions as a marker of philosophical success: contributions that say something new are considered successful, while contributions that do not say something new are considered unsuccessful. When novelty serves as a marker and metric…
CEPPA Talk 鈥� Emmalon Davis (Michigan)
Title: ‘Challenging the Pursuit of Novelty’ Abstract: Novelty鈥攗nderstood as the value of saying something new鈥攁ppears to be a good-making feature of a philosophical contribution. Beyond this, however, novelty functions as a marker of philosophical success: contributions that say something new are considered successful, while contributions that do not say something new are considered unsuccessful. When…
Friday, May 14, 2021
Saturday, May 15, 2021
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Sunday, May 16, 2021
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