Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜Week of Events
Monday, May 17, 2021
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May 17, 2021 -Medieval Logic Seminar: Dumbleton, Summa Logicae
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May 17, 2021 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)
TITLE: Fundamentality Without Favouritism ABSTRACT: According to a widely endorsed conception of fundamentality, the fundamental is characterized in terms of a certain privileged relation or set of relations. On this conception, something is fundamental just in case it is unexplained relative to a unique privileged relation or a privileged set of relations. Let us say…
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
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May 18, 2021 -Language and Mind Seminar
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May 18, 2021 -Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽脕sta (SFSU): “What Are Sex and Gender and What Do We Want Them to Be?”
Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽脕sta (SFSU): “What Are Sex and Gender and What Do We Want Them to Be?”
ABSTRACT. 鈥斅燱e are living in times where there is considerable debate over what sex and gender are and who gets to be of what sex and what gender. These are questions that impact people’s lives greatly, some more than others. They are metaphysical questions but they also concern what principles we should be guided by…
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Thursday, May 20, 2021
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May 20, 2021 -Super Special Seminar tba
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May 20, 2021 -Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Rima Basu (CMC) “Normative Expectations”
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May 20, 2021 -CEPPA Talk 鈥� Rima Basu (Claremont McKenna College)
Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Rima Basu (CMC) “Normative Expectations”
Abstract: In supplementing the familiar ways that our interpersonal relationships are morally fraught, recent work in epistemology on doxastic wronging has highlighted how these relationships can be epistemically fraught as well. However, in focusing predominantly on beliefs鈥� mental states that arguably constitute a small fraction of our mental lives鈥攖hese theories have their own theoretical blindspots.…
CEPPA Talk 鈥� Rima Basu (Claremont McKenna College)
Title: ‘Normative Expectations’ Abstract: In supplementing the familiar ways that our interpersonal relationships are morally fraught, recent work in epistemology on doxastic wronging has highlighted how these relationships can be epistemically fraught as well. However, in focusing predominantly on beliefs鈥� mental states that arguably constitute a small fraction of our mental lives鈥攖hese theories have their…
Friday, May 21, 2021
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May 21, 2021 -Medieval Logic Seminar tba
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May 21, 2021 -2021 Knox Lecture – Tim Scanlon (Harvard University)
2021 Knox Lecture – Tim Scanlon (Harvard University)
2021 Knox Lecture (online via Teams) Knox Lecturer: Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Title: Further Reflections on Tolerance and its Difficulty Abstract: The paper revisits the account of tolerance discussed in the author鈥檚 paper, 鈥淭he Difficulty of Tolerance,鈥� with the aim of clarifying (1) the reasons people have to care about the character of their society…
Saturday, May 22, 2021
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Sunday, May 23, 2021
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