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:20240527T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240527T110000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20231109T140738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T140738Z UID:10001795-1716800400-1716807600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-49/ CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240528T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240528T140000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240428T041245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T055308Z UID:10002048-1716897600-1716904800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-63/ CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240528T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240528T140000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240524T055316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T061228Z UID:10002085-1716897600-1716904800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar: Louise Richardson (University of York) DESCRIPTION:Title: Regret \nAbstract: There are many ways to feel bad about things. This paper is about which of those ways of feeling bad count as regret\, and why. I will suggest that a very great deal of our bad feelings are regrets\, in opposition to the narrower view of some philosophers and psychologists who restrict the scope of the regrettable to our past mistakes. As well as defending this expansive conception of what we may regret (regret’s object) I will present a hypothesis about the structure of regret which allows us to understand it as a unitary phenomenon\, despite the varied ways in which it can manifest in our emotional lives. On this hypothesis\, regret is (in a certain\, unorthodox\, sense) a basic human emotion. URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-louise-richardson-university-of-york/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240528T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240528T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240428T041245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T061229Z UID:10002049-1716908400-1716915600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar – NO SESSION DESCRIPTION:There will be no session this week as it conflicts with an amazing workshop on climate ethics. Please join us there: http://stacees.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2024/05/Climate-Week-Conference-Schedule-%E2%80%93-May-2024-%E2%80%93-DU49273.pdf \nThis event is part of the Inaugural 58Թ Climate Week: https://stacees.ac.uk/university-of-st-andrews-climate-week/ URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-13/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240529 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240531 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240528T122321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T122321Z UID:10002092-1716940800-1717113599@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Workshop Climate Justice: Transdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Conversations DESCRIPTION:How can the disparity between global climate impact and uneven responsibilities be squared\nwith the ideal of climate justice? How do epistemic infrastructures (such as: IPCC\, and global\nagenda and goal setting mechanisms) interact with communities on the global and local\nlevels? How are climate policies and priorities inflected by questions of distance (across space\nand time)? And how can we inspire action and responsibility-taking toward flourishing collective\n(human-nature and planetary) futures? \nYou can find the whole schedule here: http://stacees.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2024/05/Climate-Justice-Final-Schedule.pdf URL:/philevents/event/workshop-climate-justice-transdisciplinary-and-cross-cultural-conversations/ LOCATION:Younger Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240529T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240529T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240429T042433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T062312Z UID:10002050-1716994800-1717002000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Hannes Leitgeb (MCMP) DESCRIPTION:Title: When Rules Define Logical Operators: Rules as Second-Order Definitions \nAbstract: Logical inferentialists hold that the meaning of logical operators is given by their rules of inference. Arthur Prior cast doubt on this by introducing rules for his so-called tonk operator that seemed to allow for the derivation of any sentence whatsoever from any sentence whatsoever. The obvious inferentialist reply was to require constraints on the defining rules\, such as conservativeness (Belnap) or harmony (Dummett). In my talk\, I will propose a different criterion for when rules define logical operators that (i) is philosophically principled in taking the idea of rules as definitions perfectly seriously\, (ii) explains how the semantic meaning of the operators can be determined from their rules\, (iii) is local in a similar sense as harmony is\, (iv) validates the intuitionistic natural deduction rules and the intuitionistic/classical sequent calculus rules as defining the classical logical operators while ruling out Prior’s rules for tonk\, (v) makes clear why already the intuitionistic natural deduction rules define the classical meaning of logical operators so long as metavariables are interpreted as expressing arbitrary classical propositions\, (vi) validates the classical natural deduction rules as analytic\, and (vii) does not guarantee conservativeness in Belnap’s sense but in a closely related one that still entails consistency. The basic idea will be: rules define a classical logical operator just in case they translate into an explicit definition in pure classical second-order logic. URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-hannes-leitgeb-mcmp/ CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240529T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240529T183000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240517T205331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T122321Z UID:10002077-1717002000-1717007400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington) DESCRIPTION:Title: Beyond Institutional Denial: A Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations \nAbstract: Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations\, in part because there is a governance gap when it comes to promoting intergenerational concern. This gap facilitates a tyranny of the contemporary that puts the young and other future generations at risk. Climate change is a prime example. To confront intergenerational tyranny\, humanity needs more than merely a Summit for the Future. It needs a global constitutional convention focused on future generations. URL:/philevents/event/public-lecture-stephen-gardiner-university-of-washington/ LOCATION:School II (St. Salvator’s) CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/philevents/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Poster-Gardiner-4rNryE.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240530 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240601 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240430T043846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T062311Z UID:10002052-1717027200-1717199999@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysical Explanation Workshop DESCRIPTION:The University of 58Թ Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic\, Language\, Metaphysics and Epistemology will be hosting a workshop on Metaphysical Explanation.\n \nDescription: The purpose of the workshop is to bring together and promote research in the nature of metaphysical explanation\, exploring what it is and how it works. In addition\, the workshop seeks to explore the applications of metaphysical explanation to issues in metaphysics and related issues in analytic philosophy.\n \nSpeakers: Naomi Thompson (University of Bristol)\, Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto)\, Boris Kment (Princeton University)\, and Ross Cameron (University of Virginia).\n \nDATE AND VENUE: 30 May 2024\, Online on Teams.\n \nREGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/JoSwMCx1edkzPW7N9\n \nPROVISIONAL SCHEDULE (Note: All times are in British Summer Time):\nEvery time slot includes: the main talk (45 mins)\, a commentary and reply (15 mins) and Q&A (15 mins).\n\n \n\n11:55 – 12:00 Preliminary Remarks \n12:00 – 13:15 Naomi Thompson: “Social Metaphysical Explanation” \n13:15 – 13:30 Break \n13:30 – 14:45 Boris Kment: “Ground and Paradox” \n14:45 – 15:00 Break \n15:00 – 16:15 Ross Cameron: “Explanation and Plenitude in Non-Well-Founded Set Theories” \n16:15 – 16:30 Break \n16:30 – 17:45 Jessica Wilson: “Metaphysical Skepticism\, Relativized Metaphysical Modality\, and Moderate Modal Naturalism” \n\n\n \nTITLES AND ABSTRACTS\n\n \nTitle: Social Metaphysical Explanation (Naomi Thompson)\nAbstract: This paper argues that grounding and metaphysical explanation as they are ordinarily conceived are ill-suited to modelling the social world. Social facts are neither necessitated nor generated by their full grounds\, and there are good reasons to think of social metaphysical explanations as non-factive. Where grounding and metaphysical explanation are generally taken to form strict partial orders\, social metaphysical explanations are plausibly holistic. Social metaphysical explanation occurs in a context\, and it requires that in that context\, a social fact be represented as being determined on the basis of further facts\, and that concepts corresponding to social kinds featuring in the social fact to be explained are salient in that context\n\n \n\n\nTitle: Ground and Paradox (Boris Kment)\nAbstract: At the beginning of the 20th century\, Betrand Russell discovered a cluster of paradoxes that showed that certain initially very appealing principles of plenitude and individuation for sets\, properties\, and propositions are classically inconsistent. The search for a plausible\, unified\, and independently motivated solution has met with only limited success. I argue that recent ideas in the theory of grounding yield a new and promising approach. A ground-theoretic analysis of the Russellian paradoxes shows that they rest on assumptions that should be rejected because they violate a plausible non-circularity constraint on grounding. In some of the paradoxes\, the problematic assumption is a principle of plenitude. These paradoxes should be resolved by restrictions on our ontology. In the remaining paradoxes\, the assumption to be abandoned is an instance of the Law of Excluded Middle. The failure of Excluded Middle reflects the fact that reality is incomplete\, in the sense that some questions cannot be answered. We can settle such questions only by ruling out every possible answer.\n\n \n\n\nTitle: Explanation and Plenitude in Non-Well-Founded Set Theories (Ross Cameron)\nAbstract: Non-well-founded set theories allow set-theoretic exotica that standard ZFC will not allow\, such as a set that has itself as its sole member. We can distinguish plenitudinous non-well-founded set theories\, such as Boffa set theory\, that allow infinitely many such sets\, from restrictive theories\, such as Finsler-Aczel or AFA\, that allow exactly one. Plenitudinous non-well-founded set theories face a puzzle: nothing seems to explain the identity or distinctness of various of the sets they countenance. In this paper I aim to sharpen this puzzle\, make clear who it does and does not apply to and\, ultimately\, to argue in favor of a plenitudinous theory like Boffa.\n\n\n \n\nTitle: Metaphysical Skepticism\, Relativized Metaphysical Modality\, and Moderate Modal Naturalism (Jessica Wilson)\nAbstract: One route to skepticism about metaphysics (drawing on Rosen 2006\, Chalmers 2009\, Clarke-Doane 2019) proceeds by observing the following tension. On the one hand\, metaphysical claims are supposed to be metaphysically necessary; for example\, if Platonic universals are the metaphysical basis for resemblance between objects\, then this is supposed to be necessarily so. But on the other hand\, the operative modal epistemologies seem to offer support for the possibility of incompatible metaphysical claims; for example\, it seems conceivable both that Platonic universals might be the basis for resemblance between objects\, and also conceivable that tropes might be such a basis. Here I consider two strategies of response. The first—resistance—maintains that a better modal epistemology\, based in abduction (IBE) as opposed to conceiving and the like\, might justify one metaphysical claim over others (per Biggs and Wilson 2018\, 2020). The second strategy — accommodation — appeals to Relativized Metaphysical Modality\, or RMM (Murray and Wilson 2012; Hellie\, Murray\, and Wilson 2020)\, according to which what is possible or necessary may depend on facts about how the world actually is. RMM makes room for just one of a set of competing metaphysical claims to be true and hence metaphysically necessary\, while at the same time explaining intuitions that competing metaphysical claims are possible\, as reflecting (mere) speculative consideration of what would be possible or necessary against the backdrop assumption that a different world is actual. This strategy can be seen as expanding the application of Kripke’s notion of necessary a posteriori truths beyond the standard natural kind expressions to general metaphysical claims. URL:/philevents/event/metaphysical-explanation-workshop/ CATEGORIES:Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/philevents/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/41DEDBAF-C95D-44BE-955C-806AAE2613A4-U7baxU.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T120000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240430T043859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T062311Z UID:10002053-1717063200-1717070400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/plenary-seminar-9/ CATEGORIES:Plenary session END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T143000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240430T043859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T062312Z UID:10002054-1717074000-1717079400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: CANCELLED DESCRIPTION:Cancelled due to conflicting event \nSymposium on Jessia Brown’s Groups as Epistemic and Moral Agents (OUP) \nCogito Research Centre\, University of Glasgow\, May 27-28th.\nAll ECT members are welcome to attend\, but will need to cover expenses (i.e.\, food and travel) themselves. URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-cancelled-3/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T153000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240430T160811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T165355Z UID:10002056-1717079400-1717083000@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-149/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240430T043859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T062312Z UID:10002055-1717081200-1717088400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Unity: No Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/unity-no-seminar-3/ CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T173000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240517T205332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T122321Z UID:10002078-1717084800-1717090200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Tahseen Jafry (Glasgow Caledonian University) DESCRIPTION:Title: About Climate Justice: What Does it Mean and What Lies Ahead? \nAbstract: In July 2023\, Europe reached scorching milestones with relentless heatwaves and Scotland had its hottest June ever. Several regions grappled with unprecedented rainfall\, triggering ecological and socioeconomic upheaval. However\, impacts aren’t equally distributed\, those who contribute minimally to carbon emissions\, find themselves on the frontline of these erratic weather extremes.  \nDespite being on our doorstep\, the reality of climate disparities and injustices remains largely hidden. Scotland must prepare to connect with and apply a climate justice framework. This talk will explore how to embrace the changes we are witnessing in our climate and delve into a positive dialogue on what we needs to be made to combat climate inequality\, ensuring well-being and economic prosperity for all.  \n  \n The second lecture will be followed by a wine reception (location to be announced) – all are very welcome to attend! URL:/philevents/event/public-lecture-tahseen-jafry-glasgow-caledonian-university/ LOCATION:School II (St. Salvator’s) CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/philevents/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Poster-Jafry-BRPOA5.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240531T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240531T190000 DTSTAMP:20260614T144749 CREATED:20240528T122321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T122321Z UID:10002093-1717173000-1717182000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:CEPPA Film Club: Children of Men DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the first session of CEPPA Film Club\, on Friday 31 May (also the last day of Climate Week)\, when we will gather from 4.30 onwards to watch and discuss Alfonso Cuarón’s classic dystopian film Children of Men (see trailer here). Miguel de la Cal Moreno is convening and will start us off with a short introduction over drinks and snacks from Luvians\, before the viewing begins. Afterwards the floor is open for discussion! \nSuggested prewatch/prereads (with spoiler alert!):\n\n\nchapter 1 of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism\n\n\nThe short film ‘The possibility of Hope’\, which was a companion short directed by Cuarón featuring interviews with ‘thinkers’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m1TNXIMTkw)\n\n\nŽižek on Children of men (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m1TNXIMTkw)\n\n\nE. Ann Kaplan\, Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction\, chapter 3: ‘Pretrauma Political Thrillers: Children of Men – with Reference to Soylent Green and The Handmaid’s Tale‘\n\n\nSamuel Scheffler\, ‘Afterlife’ lectures I and II\n\n\nP.D. James\, The Children of Men (the original novel\, arguably not as good as the movie though! URL:/philevents/event/ceppa-film-club-children-of-men/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104 CATEGORIES:CEPPA Film Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/philevents/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/children-of-men-5S66fU.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR