Week of Events
Monday, October 14, 2024
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October 14, 2024 -Medieval Logic Seminar: Strode’s Consequentiae
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October 14, 2024 -Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Mereotopology 1
Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Mereotopology 1
Casati, Roberto & Varzi, Achille C. (1999).聽Parts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation. MIT Press. Ch. 4: Connection Structures https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/2441/chapter/64762/Connection-Structures
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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October 15, 2024 -Language and Mind seminar:
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October 15, 2024 -Language and Mind seminar: Brice Bantegnie
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October 15, 2024 -FPST Seminar:
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October 15, 2024 -FPST Seminar: Naomi Kachani (58吃瓜) – In-person
Language and Mind seminar: Brice Bantegnie
Title:聽It’s personal and it’s fine Abstract:聽Believing is something that one does, or so one might say. Seeing as well. Detecting the edges of objects is not. Believing is a personal state. Seeing as well. Detecting is a sub-personal event or process. The personal/sub-personal distinction is intuitive. In recent papers, some聽have argued that it is problematic.…
FPST Seminar: Naomi Kachani (58吃瓜) – In-person
Title: Feminism and Multiculturalism: Measuring Gendered Cultural Harms Abstract: Deeply ingrained in the multiculturalism versus feminism debate is the idea that certain minority practices are more deserving of attention and criticism for their misogynistic undertones than other (liberal) practices. In this talk, I鈥檒l consider one of the potential reasons for this asymmetrical focus on minorities.…
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
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October 16, 2024 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar:
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October 16, 2024 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Sophie Nagler (58吃瓜)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Sophie Nagler (58吃瓜)
Title: Inference behaviour semantics for all* connectives in two-dimensional sequent calculi Abstract: In this talk, I present inference behaviour semantics (IBS) for connectives in two-dimensional sequent calculi. IBS is a novel approach to proof-theoretic semantics (PTS) that emphasises Wittgenstein’s conception of ‘meaning as use’, alongside Gentzen’s idea of operational rules as connective definitions. The core…
Thursday, October 17, 2024
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October 17, 2024 -Plenary Seminar:
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October 17, 2024 -Plenary Seminar:
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October 17, 2024 -Epistemology Seminar:
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October 17, 2024 -Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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October 17, 2024 -CEPPA Talk (online) 鈥� Valerie Tiberius (Minnesota)
CEPPA Talk (online) 鈥� Valerie Tiberius (Minnesota)
Title: Happy Immoralists and Satisfied Loners: A Pragmatic Perspective on Disagreement about Well-being Abstract: Can a morally bad person live well? Can a person without friends achieve well-being? There is long-standing disagreement about the correct answers to these questions. I offer a diagnosis of the debate between those who answer 鈥渘o鈥� (objectivists about well-being) and…
Friday, October 18, 2024
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Saturday, October 19, 2024
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Sunday, October 20, 2024
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