BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Philosophy events - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Philosophy events X-ORIGINAL-URL:/philevents X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Philosophy events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240422T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240422T110000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20231109T140612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T140612Z UID:10001789-1713776400-1713783600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-44/ CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240423T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240423T140000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240327T005207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T015454Z UID:10001991-1713873600-1713880800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-58/ CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240423T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240423T140000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240412T020047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T035552Z UID:10002020-1713873600-1713880800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar: Stefano Pugnaghi (University of 58Թ) DESCRIPTION:Title: Alethic Pluralism and the Meaning of “True” \nAbstract: Alethic pluralism is the view that there are many ways for truth-bearers to be true since different properties realise truth in different domains. Thus\, especially in its strong version\, pluralism amounts to the claim that the notion of truth we ordinarily employ is actually directly linked with a plurality of realizer properties. At the same time\, this conceptual unity is normally taken to be mirrored at the linguistic level by the existence of a single truth predicate “True”\, which must then also be characterised in plural terms. However\, although much has been said about the relation between the concept of truth and its realizers\, comparatively little attention has been devoted to the meaning of our ordinary predicate “True” and to model the plurality allegedly appearing in it.  In fact\, if the concept of truth is realized by different properties in different domain\, we should expect that different properties will also be relevant for different truth ascriptions (i.e. for different uses of the term “True”). In this paper I will offer a detailed discussion of various ways of modelling the alleged plurality in the meaning of “True”. First\, I will consider and discard some constant plural semantic accounts\, showing that “True” is importantly variable in meaning. Thene\, I will discuss and also criticise some options for a context-sensitive semantic analysis of this predicate\, showing that “True” is actually insensitive to contexts\, standardly conceived. Finally\, I will conclude this paper by arguing the “True”\, within a strong pluralist picture\, is actually polysemous. \n  URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-stefano-pugnaghi-university-of-st-andrews/ LOCATION:Online Meeting via Teams CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240423T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240423T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240327T005207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T015515Z UID:10001992-1713884400-1713891600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-9/ CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240423T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240423T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240409T015539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T035552Z UID:10002014-1713884400-1713891600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar – Cael Keegan (Carelton University) [online only] DESCRIPTION:Title: How to do things with ‘trans’ \nAbstract: What is the conceptual formation trans\, and what can it do? While transgender studies is oriented against providing definitive answers\, the field does possess a history and an emergent set of critical tools\, both similar to and yet divergent from the more institutionally embraced field of queer studies. Drawing on Susan Stryker’s characterization of transgender studies as queer theory’s “evil twin\,” this talk explores the critical relation enacted between the two fields: Rather than envisioning them as opposites\, it explores their relation as a fruitful paradox in which each discourse problematizes and yet enlivens the other’s claims. It then demonstrates trans analytics through a reading of John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-cael-keegan-carelton-university-online-only/ LOCATION:Online via Teams CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240424T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240424T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240327T005207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T005207Z UID:10001993-1713970800-1713978000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-20/ CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240424T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240424T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240328T004824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T035441Z UID:10001998-1713970800-1713978000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Aybüke Özgün (University of Amsterdam) DESCRIPTION:Title: Beliefs based on conflicting and uncertain evidence: connecting Dempster-Shafer theory and the topology of evidence \nAbstract:\nOne problem to solve in the context of information fusion\, decision-making\, and other artificial intelligence challenges is to compute justified beliefs based on evidence. In real-life examples\, this evidence may be inconsistent\, incomplete\, or uncertain\, making the problem of evidence fusion highly non-trivial. In this talk\, I will present a new model for measuring degrees of beliefs based on possibly inconsistent\, incomplete\, and uncertain evidence\, by combining tools from Dempster-Shafer Theory and Topological Models of Evidence. Our belief model is more general than the aforementioned approaches in two important ways: (1) it can reproduce them when appropriate constraints are imposed\, and\, more notably\, (2) it is flexible enough to compute beliefs according to various standards that represent agents’ evidential demands. The latter novelty allows to compute an agent’s (possibly) distinct degrees of belief\, based on the same evidence\, in situations when\, e.g\, the agent prioritizes avoiding false negatives and when it prioritizes avoiding false positives. Finally\, I will discuss further research directions and philosophical loose ends\, time permitting\, introduce a logic for comparing strengths of evidence and belief. \nThis talk is joint work between the speaker (Aybüke Özgün)\, Daira Pinto Prieto and Ronald de Haan\, and is based on the underlying topological formalism developed in collaboration with Alexandru Baltag\, Nick Bezhanishvili\, and Sonja Smets. \nThe speaker notes that “The talk will not assume any background in Dempster-Shafer theory or topological models for evidence.” And that “[she] will focus on the motivation and overall structure of the proposed framework rather than the technical details.” URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-aybuke-ozgun-university-of-amsterdam/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T120000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240327T005207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T035444Z UID:10001994-1714039200-1714046400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/plenary-seminar-4/ CATEGORIES:Plenary session END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T143000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240326T003925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T035444Z UID:10001977-1714050000-1714055400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam & 58Թ) DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam & 58Թ) \nA Foucauldian critique of the epistemic injustice research program \nCatarina Dutilh Novaes (joint work with Merel Talbi and Solmu Anttila)\n\nSince the publication of Fricker’s groundbreaking Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007)\, vibrant debates on the complex relations between knowledge\, ethics and power have ensued\, arguably giving rise to a specific research program (in Lakatos’ sense). In contrast with apolitical social epistemology\, the epistemic injustice research program problematizes the roles of power and social identities in epistemic processes. Two of its core assumptions are: there is a reasonably neat separation between epistemic phenomena and ethical-political phenomena (even if they often intersect); while frequent\, occurrences of epistemic injustice are deviations from the norm that can be redressed—epistemic injustice is a bug\, not a feature.\n\nIn this talk\, I offer a critique of the epistemic injustice research program thus conceived\, drawing on broadly Foucauldian ideas on the relations between power and knowledge. I focus on the second assumption above\, specifically by revisiting Curry’s critique of Fricker’s and Medina’s respective analyses of To Kill a Mocking Bird\, and by presenting a similar critique of Lackey’s recent work on criminal testimonial injustice. In both cases\, the analyses of testimonial injustice as credibility deficit (Fricker and Medina) or as credibility excess (Lackey on confessions) miss the role and functions of these practices in perpetuating oppressive power structures (in these specific cases\, white supremacy). Thus seen\, epistemic injustice is a feature\, not a bug\, requiring much more than epistemic strategies to be redressed. URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-catarina-dutilh-novaes-vu-amsterdam-st-andrews/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T153000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240126T220115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240414T142418Z UID:10001842-1714055400-1714059000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk URL:/philevents/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-130/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T153000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240415T142326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T151314Z UID:10002024-1714055400-1714059000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group DESCRIPTION:  \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk URL:/philevents/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-143/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T153000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240423T152427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T153822Z UID:10002043-1714055400-1714059000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group DESCRIPTION:This week we will meet to discuss Joel Joseph‘s work-in-progress paper ‘The Problem of Secondary Permissibility’ (email jj73@st-andrews.ac.uk for a copy of the paper) \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk URL:/philevents/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-147/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240326T003926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T035444Z UID:10001978-1714057200-1714064400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Unity Pre-Reading: Gärdenfors Ch. 3 DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/unity-pre-reading-gardenfors-ch-3/ LOCATION:Arché Seminar Room\, 17-19 College Street\, 58Թ\, KY169AL CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T173000 DTSTAMP:20260614T143200 CREATED:20240126T220115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T153822Z UID:10001843-1714060800-1714066200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Helen Frowe (Stockholm) DESCRIPTION:Title: The Permissibility of Collective Defence Agreements \nAbstract: Collective defence agreements (CDAs)\, of the sort that exist between\, for example\, NATO members\, EU members\, and African Union members\, are a prime example of a prominent deterrence mechanism. They promise a degree of assistance that will make it almost impossible for an adversary to win an aggressive war against any member. On the face of it\, then\, such agreements seem obviously morally permissible and\, indeed\, morally desirable. However\, I suspect that the moral picture is in fact much more mixed. For example\, acting on a CDA is unlikely to minimise harm compared available alternatives. If\, as I believe\, states are usually subject to a duty to minimise harm when aiding\, then acting on CDAs is likely to be permissible only if doing so is exempt from this duty. This talk explores some of the moral issues raised by CDAs and deterrent mechanisms more broadly. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 URL:/philevents/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-helen-frowe-stockholm/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk ORGANIZER;CN="Joel Joseph":MAILTO:jj73@st-andrews.ac.uk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR