Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Jonathan Schaffer, “On What There Is, Was, or Could Be; Or: Modal Realism without Stares”
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14th Arch茅 Graduate Conference
14th Arch茅 Graduate Conference
The Arch茅 Philosophical Research Centre at the University of 58吃瓜 is pleased to announce the 14th Arch茅 Graduate Conference. The conference will be held on 20 & 21 October 2025 and is open to all graduate students. The conference will consist of two invited keynote speakers and eight graduate student speakers. If you wish…
Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Publication of Francis Hutcheson鈥檚 An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Publication of Francis Hutcheson鈥檚 An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Thursday 23 October 1.30-2.30 Elizabeth Radcliffe (William and Mary): "Moral Epistemology in Hutcheson鈥檚 Inquiry" 2.30-3.30 Michael Walschots (Milan): "Hutcheson on Desire: A Reappraisal" 3.30-4.00 Tea and coffee 4.00-5.00 Enrico Galvagni (Edinburgh): "Hutcheson鈥檚 Sentimentalist Voluntarism" 5.00-6.00 Signy Gutnick Allen (Zurich): 'Hutcheson and Smith on Justice and Compassion' 6.00-6.30 A toast to the Liberty Fund edition of…
Monday, October 20, 2025
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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October 22, 2025 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar
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October 22, 2025 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Jonathan Schaffer, “On What There Is, Was, or Could Be; Or: Modal Realism without Stares”
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Jonathan Schaffer, “On What There Is, Was, or Could Be; Or: Modal Realism without Stares”
Abstract: Plato and Pegasus do not exist, but otherwise they have so much going for them. They are nameable, in range of quantifiers, and able to stand in some relations. These familiar points lead to a range of puzzles (including what Quine famously called 鈥淧lato鈥檚 beard鈥�), as to how we can name, quantifier over, and…
Thursday, October 23, 2025
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October 23, 2025 -Plenary Seminar: Pree Jareonsettasin (Cambridge), ‘Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue’
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October 23, 2025 -Plenary / Special Seminar
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October 23, 2025 -ECT Seminar
Plenary Seminar: Pree Jareonsettasin (Cambridge), ‘Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue’
TITLE: ‘Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue: reconciling divine determinism with creaturely freedom by distinguishing sorts of contingency’. ABSTRACT: Is man free in a world created by God and over which God exercises providence? The fourteenth-century logician-mathematician-theologian Thomas Bradwardine has, for seven centuries, been accused of having sacrificed human freedom on the altar of divine…
Friday, October 24, 2025
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Saturday, October 25, 2025
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Sunday, October 26, 2025
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