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FPST Seminar – Mari Mikkola (Online)
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Language & Mind Seminar
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WIKI: No Seminar
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WIKI Seminar
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Unity Seminar: No Seminar
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Unity Seminar
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CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Richard Arneson (UC San Diego)
Edgecliffe G03Title: 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…
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Christopher Masterman: “Are abstraction principles all that explanatory?””
Edgecliffe G03An 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…
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ECT Seminar
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ECT Seminar: Adam Carter (Glasgow). Good moves. A Risk-Theoretic Account of Telic Know-How
Edgecliffe G03Title: 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…