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:20241125T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241125T110000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241026T192343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241125T215311Z UID:10002228-1732527000-1732532400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Strode’s Consequentiae DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/medieval-logic-seminar-strodes-consequentiae-11/ LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58Թ\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241125T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241125T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241026T192343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241125T215311Z UID:10002229-1732536000-1732543200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Invited Talk (In-Person) – Graham Priest ‘The paradox at the boundary of everything’ DESCRIPTION:Title: The Paradox at the Boundary of Everything \nAbstract: TBC URL:/philevents/event/unity-seminar-invited-talk-in-person-graham-priest-the-paradox-at-the-boundary-of-everything/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241126T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241126T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241027T194504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241119T212312Z UID:10002232-1732633200-1732640400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online DESCRIPTION:Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression \nAbstract: 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 – one sees this in feminist work on pornography – or worse\, to ignore pictures altogether when the topic at hand least typically pictorial or typically has a significant pictorial dimension – one sees this in Jason Stanley’s work on propaganda. \nAgainst this linguisticism\, I argue that central and influential forms of oppressive “speech” are in fact pictorial and that to understand how they do their oppressive work\, we must approach pictures as pictures rather than as forms of spoken or written language. In this paper\, I first examine one glaring case of linguisticism\, then say something about what I think is going on here\, and finally briefly examine examples of oppressive pictures and give the outlines of an explanation of how they do their oppressive work. \nPlease note that I will be discussing pictures that glorify and eroticize rape\, and pictures that mock\, shame\, and demean Black persons. I will also mention pictures of lynchings. I will also briefly show some of these pictures\, though not the lynching pictures. I will not leave any pictures up for long because they are triggering or otherwise injurious for many of us. That\, after all\, is part of the point of this paper. I will give warning before I show or mention these pictures. URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-26/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241126T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241126T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241120T213811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T220813Z UID:10002263-1732633200-1732640400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Sebastian Stuart Betanzos (58Թ) – In-Person DESCRIPTION:Title: The Sex/Gender Distinction\, Revisited \nAbstract: 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 UBP). The body-schema is the means through which we apprehend having a felt-sense of the body (i.e. it is the psychological abstraction of the ego). The UBP is an observation that any given human body displays both male and female sex characteristics\, even those bodies that would usually be considered as being clearly legible as male or female. Given this psychoanalytic embodiment theory\, I pose the following question: How do particular sex characteristics express themselves in the body-schema? I will argue that there is an assumption hidden in the question\, namely that there is a distinction between sex and gender such that it makes sense to speak of one as if separate from the other. This talk will explore the metaphysics of the sex/gender distinction and will start by distinguishing three different kinds of sex/gender distinctions\, these being: the distinction of classification\, the distinction of features\, and the distinction of function. In order to provide a model that can account for all three of the distinctions individually and in unison\, I will build on the psychoanalytic embodiment theory and integrate it in conversation with recent proposals in analytic social ontology. This model will then be used to clarify the referents in the initial question (‘how do particular sex characteristics express themselves in the body schema?’) and provide the tools to formulate an answer. URL:/philevents/event/fpst-seminar-sebastian-stuart-betanzos-st-andrews-in-person/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241127T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241127T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241028T195442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241124T215312Z UID:10002233-1732719600-1732726800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-35/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241127T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241127T180000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241125T215311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241127T220811Z UID:10002268-1732723200-1732730400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Christopher J. Masterman (58Թ) DESCRIPTION:Title: Saying Something with Nothing\nAbstract: 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’t think there are any objects! How\, then\, are they to express themselves? The dominant approach is modelled on natural language feature-placing sentences. Just as I can commit to “It is raining” without thinking that any one particular thing is raining\, nihilists develop sophisticated feature-placing languages to talk about how the world is a certain way without committing to there being any particular thing which is that way. I raise some issues for this approach and argue that the expressive adequacy challenge for nihilism is much harder to solve than people have recognised. I then suggest a general diagnosis of what goes wrong for the nihilist. In brief\, I argue that there are two different underlying conceptions of nihilism which are mistakenly run together and only one of these leads to problems of expressive adequacy. To end\, I sketch one way of developing the less-discussed conception of nihilism in response to the expressive adequacy worry. URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-christopher-j-masterman-st-andrews/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T120000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241029T195514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241101T195519Z UID:10002236-1732788000-1732795200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar: DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/plenary-seminar-26/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Plenary session END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T143000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241029T195514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241123T215312Z UID:10002237-1732798800-1732804200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-37/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T143000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241124T215312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241128T220813Z UID:10002265-1732798800-1732804200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism DESCRIPTION:Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism (joint work  with N. Pedersen) \n\n\nThe 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 paper\, we first briefly outline the current state of the debate with regards to non-probabilistic notions of risk and then present and discuss different forms that pluralism about risk could take\, drawing on pluralist ideas in ethics\, epistemology\, and the philosophies of truth and logic. In the last section\, we investigate how each type of risk pluralism will assess a given thought experiment which will help to highlight their differences and identify predictions for further experimental work on risk pluralism. URL:/philevents/event/epistemology-seminar-philip-ebert-university-of-stirling-varieties-of-risk-pluralism/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T153000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241029T124052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241124T132308Z UID:10002234-1732804200-1732807800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group DESCRIPTION: Location: Edgecliffe G03 URL:/philevents/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-167/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T153000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241125T132309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241128T132309Z UID:10002266-1732804200-1732807800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group DESCRIPTION:This week we will discuss Cora Diamond’s classic paper ‘The Difficulty of Reality’. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 URL:/philevents/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-172/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T214908 CREATED:20241029T124052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241128T132309Z UID:10002235-1732809600-1732815000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katrin Flikschuh (LSE) DESCRIPTION:Title: The Idea of Ancestry in African Philosophy \nAbstract: 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. ‘Thinned-out’ in that I am not interested in this or that substantive version of the belief among different African peoples; nor am I interested in the particular cultural practises that attend or attest to the belief. I am interested in the general form of the belief\, and in the more general conception of the natural world in general which one would have to endorse for belief in ancestral existence to count as rational. In one sense\, the aims of this paper are quite modest: I merely aim to get clearer\, myself\, on what strikes me as an intuitively attractive belief. In another sense\, the paper is quite ambitious: the belief would seem to require Western readers to suspend routine metaphysical and scientific assumptions about the natural order. In putting pressure on these routine assumptions\, I shall touch on discussions around free will and consciousness as phenomena that share some of the features of ancestral existence. Considered comparatively\, belief in ancestral existence may be no less rationally defensible than belief in free will or (non-reductive) consciousness. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 URL:/philevents/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-katrin-flikschuh-lse/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104 CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR