Week of Events
Monday, May 25, 2026
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Thursday, May 28, 2026
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May 28, 2026 -ECT Seminar
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May 28, 2026 -ECT Seminar: Adam Carter (Glasgow). Good moves. A Risk-Theoretic Account of Telic Know-How
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May 28, 2026 -ECT Seminar
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May 28, 2026 -Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Christopher Masterman: “Are abstraction principles all that explanatory?””
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May 28, 2026 -CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Richard Arneson (UC San Diego)
ECT Seminar: Adam Carter (Glasgow). Good moves. A Risk-Theoretic Account of Telic Know-How
Title: Good Moves: A Risk-Theoretic Account of Telic Know-How Abstract: I defend a new account of telic know-how, what I call the Good Moves (GM) account. To know how to complete a telic task T is to possess a stable, trainable disposition to select and sequence good moves across T’s state space, where a move…
Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Christopher Masterman: “Are abstraction principles all that explanatory?””
An increasingly popular view is that abstracta are thin—their existence alone makes little or no demand on the world. The most sophisticated defence of this view to date is the version of abstractionism found in Linnebo’s recent book Thin Objects (2018). On this view, good abstraction principles should be understood as involving claims about asymmetric…
CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Richard Arneson (UC San Diego)
Title: Democratic Instrumentalism and the Threat of Authoritarianism Abstract: The instrumentalism of the title says roughly that the form of governance that would be feasibly best in any circumstances is any one whose establishment and operation would bring about consequences morally no worse than those of any other that might instead be put in place. I…
Friday, May 29, 2026
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Saturday, May 30, 2026
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Sunday, May 31, 2026
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