Metaphysics Seminar Thomas Ferguson (City University of New York)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜Week of Events
Monday, November 15, 2021
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November 15, 2021 -Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave, Insolubles
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November 15, 2021 -Metaphysics Seminar Thomas Ferguson (City University of New York)
Metaphysics Seminar Thomas Ferguson (City University of New York)
Title: Intensional Subject-Matter in Subsystems of Analytic Implication Abstract: Although one tends to think of truth or falsity as the predominant semantic feature with which logic is concerned, a number of logics exist that give the feature of topic or subject-matter equal weight. Just as we expect compositional truth conditions to extend to the entirety…
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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November 16, 2021 -Language & Mind Seminar: David Bain (Glasgow)
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November 16, 2021 -Conceptual Engineering Seminar – James Hampton (University of London)
Language & Mind Seminar: David Bain (Glasgow)
Pain, Painfulness, and Evaluation In this talk, I survey the increasingly rich, contemporary debate about the nature of pain and its unpleasantness.聽 Along the way, I highlight some of the advantages of my evaluativist view, and, against the messenger-shooting objection, I argue that evaluativism can accommodate the non-instrumental badness of unpleasant pain.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
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November 17, 2021 -Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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November 17, 2021 -Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Moral Philosophy Reading Group Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
Thursday, November 18, 2021
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November 18, 2021 -Super Special Seminar
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November 18, 2021 -Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Linda Mart铆n Alcoff (CUNY) “Extractivist epistemologies”
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November 18, 2021 -CEPPA Talk 鈥� Linda Mart铆n Alcoff (City University of New York)
Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Linda Mart铆n Alcoff (CUNY) “Extractivist epistemologies”
Abstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of聽extractivist epistemology聽as a way to think through the effect of colonialism on knowing practices. Extractivist epistemologies work analogously to extractivist capitalism: seeking an epistemic resource of some sort—such as a piece of pharmacological knowledge held by an indigenous community or…
CEPPA Talk 鈥� Linda Mart铆n Alcoff (City University of New York)
Event co-Hosted with ECT and FPST. Title: Extractivist epistemologies Abstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of extractivist epistemology as a way to think through the effect of colonialism on knowing practices. Extractivist epistemologies work analogously to extractivist capitalism: seeking an epistemic resource of some sort—such as…
Friday, November 19, 2021
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Saturday, November 20, 2021
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Sunday, November 21, 2021
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