Metaphysics Seminar Francisca Silva (University of 58吃瓜)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜Week of Events
Monday, December 6, 2021
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December 6, 2021 -Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave, Insolubles
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December 6, 2021 -Metaphysics Seminar Francisca Silva (University of 58吃瓜)
Metaphysics Seminar Francisca Silva (University of 58吃瓜)
Title: Sets as fusions of materially-equivalent rigid embodiments Abstract: Albeit having some initial plausibility, most philosophers today would reject the thesis that members of sets are parts of sets, instead following Lewis (1991, 1993) in taking sets and classes more generally to have only their subclasses as parts, with singletons being mereologically atomic. Against this…
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Thursday, December 9, 2021
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December 9, 2021 -Super Special Seminar
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December 9, 2021 -Epistemology Seminar: Jane Friedman (NYU) “The Aim of Inquiry?”
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December 9, 2021 -CEPPA Talk 鈥� Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
Epistemology Seminar: Jane Friedman (NYU) “The Aim of Inquiry?”
Abstract: It is said that inquiry has an aim, though it’s not entirely clear how we should think about this claim. What, in general, does it mean to say that the activity of inquiry has an aim? In this talk I go through a few options and think about them within the context of the…
CEPPA Talk 鈥� Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
Climate Change, COVID-19, Justice, and Quality of Life Abstract:聽Justice would appear to require that those who are the principal beneficiaries of a history of economic and political behavior that has resulted in harmful global climate change should bear a correspondingly large share of the burden in contending with these harms worldwide. At the same time,…
Friday, December 10, 2021
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Saturday, December 11, 2021
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Sunday, December 12, 2021
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