7 events found.
Week of Events
The Epistemology of Inquiry
The event is hybrid and open to philosophy faculty and students outside 58吃瓜. Remote participants can access the teams link by requesting it from Patrick Winther-Larsen (pjwl@st-andrews.ac.uk)聽or Jessica Brown (jab30@st-andrews.ac.uk). Speakers: Endre Begby (Simon Fraser University) Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern/58吃瓜) Joshua Habgood-Coote (Leeds) Chris Kelp (Glasgow) Julia Staffel (Colorado) Elise Woodard (KCL, London) Programme:…
Monday, May 20, 2024
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
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May 21, 2024 -Language and Mind seminar
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May 21, 2024 -Language and Mind seminar: Suzuka Komatsu (University of 58吃瓜)
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May 21, 2024 -FPST Seminar – Lorna Finlayson (Essex)
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May 21, 2024 -2024 Knox Lecture – Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
Language and Mind seminar: Suzuka Komatsu (University of 58吃瓜)
Title: Depression and the Open Future Abstract: We intuitively think that the past is fixed or closed whereas the future is open. In a phenomenological description of depression, however, depressed subjects often report that the future is closed. Our na茂ve view of the open future thus seems to be impaired. What makes the depressed subjects…
FPST Seminar – Lorna Finlayson (Essex)
Title: Are kids oppressed? Child liberation beyond equal rights Abstract: Thinking about childhood often has a paradoxical quality. Children and young people are at once idealised and demonised. Childhood is romanticised in memory and imagination at the same time as it is the receptacle for our deepest traumas. The idea of children as an oppressed…
2024 Knox Lecture – Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
Title:聽“Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem” Abstract:聽Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of “categorical inequality.” In this framework, entire social groups enjoy superior power, social esteem, and wealth over other groups: aristocrats over commoners, men over women, blacks over whites in the U.S., Brahmins over Dalits in…
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
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May 22, 2024 -2024 Knox Seminar – Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
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May 22, 2024 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Matteo Nizzardo (University of 58吃瓜 and University of Stirling)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Matteo Nizzardo (University of 58吃瓜 and University of Stirling)
Title: Reference Without Identity Abstract: Singular reference to non-individuals is often thought to be impossible. At present, however, this claim rests solely on intuitions. In this paper, I present four arguments in favour of the impossibility of singular reference to non-individuals.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
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May 23, 2024 -Plenary Seminar
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May 23, 2024 -Plenary Seminar: Kit Fine (NYU)
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May 23, 2024 -2024 Ethics Cup Finals
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May 23, 2024 -Epistemology Seminar: CANCELLED
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May 23, 2024 -Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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May 23, 2024 -Unity Pre-Reading: Prototypes
Plenary Seminar: Kit Fine (NYU)
Title: Numerical and Mereological Indeterminacy. Abstract:This talk has two aims, one negative and the other positive.聽 The negative aim is to argue against the possibility of numerical or mereological indeterminacy by showing how the arguments given by Sider and Lewis can be modified so as to be resistant to the objections that might reasonably be…
Epistemology Seminar: CANCELLED
Regular meeting is cancelled. Instead, the stream will host a workshop: The Epistemology of Inquiry
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Unity Pre-Reading: Prototypes
Belastegui, Javier (2022). ‘A Qualitative Approach to Conceptual Spaces: Prototypes as Qualitative Atoms.’ Erkenntnis (Online):1-36. https://philpapers.org/rec/BELAQA-2
Friday, May 24, 2024
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Saturday, May 25, 2024
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Sunday, May 26, 2024
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