Epistemology Seminar: Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsWeek of Events
Monday, November 25, 2024
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November 25, 2024 -Medieval Logic Seminar: Strode’s Consequentiae
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November 25, 2024 -Unity Seminar: Invited Talk (In-Person) – Graham Priest ‘The paradox at the boundary of everything’
Unity Seminar: Invited Talk (In-Person) – Graham Priest ‘The paradox at the boundary of everything’
Title: The Paradox at the Boundary of Everything Abstract: TBC
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
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November 26, 2024 -FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online
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November 26, 2024 -FPST Seminar: Sebastian Stuart Betanzos (58吃瓜) – In-Person
FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online
Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language 鈥� one sees this in feminist work on pornography 鈥� or…
FPST Seminar: Sebastian Stuart Betanzos (58吃瓜) – In-Person
Title: The Sex/Gender Distinction, Revisited Abstract: This talk will build on an earlier chapter in my thesis where I sketched out two conceptual resources from psychoanalysis, these being the body-schema and the universal bisexual potential of the human body (the聽UBP). The body-schema is the means through which we apprehend having a felt-sense of the body…
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
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November 27, 2024 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar:
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November 27, 2024 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Christopher J. Masterman (58吃瓜)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Christopher J. Masterman (58吃瓜)
Title: Saying Something with Nothing Abstract: Ontological nihilism is the view that fundamentally there are no objects. Whilst it is an increasingly popular view, nihilists face a so-called expressive adequacy challenge. Standard natural and formal languages carve up the world into at least objects and properties/relations satisfied by those objects. But the nihilist doesn鈥檛 think…
Thursday, November 28, 2024
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November 28, 2024 -Plenary Seminar:
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November 28, 2024 -Epistemology Seminar:
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November 28, 2024 -Epistemology Seminar: Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism
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November 28, 2024 -Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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November 28, 2024 -Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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November 28, 2024 -CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) 鈥� Katrin Flikschuh (LSE)
Epistemology Seminar: Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism
Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism (joint work 聽with N. Pedersen) The dominant approach in the literature on risk is to adopt a monist stance by taking the probabilistic notion of risk to be the only proper notion. However, there is a growing philosophical literature on non-probabilistic notions of risk. In this…
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
This week we will discuss Cora Diamond’s classic paper ‘The Difficulty of Reality’. Location: Edgecliffe G03
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) 鈥� Katrin Flikschuh (LSE)
Title:聽The Idea of Ancestry in African Philosophy Abstract: This paper concerns itself with the rationality of belief in ancestral existence. Although belief in ancestral existence remains widespread globally, I shall focus on a-thinned out version of African forms of this belief. 鈥楾hinned-out鈥� in that I am not interested in this or that substantive version of…
Friday, November 29, 2024
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Saturday, November 30, 2024
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Sunday, December 1, 2024
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