• Metaphysics and Logic Seminar:

    Edgecliffe G03

    Pre-read session: Dorr, C. (2016), To Be F Is To Be G. Philosophical Perspectives, 30: 39-134. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12079

  • FPST Seminar: Filipa Melo Lopes (Edinburgh) – ONLINE

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Misogynistic Dehumanization Abstract: The idea that women qua women can be dehumanized has been dismissed by feminist philosophers, like Kate Manne, and by philosophers of dehumanization, like David Livingstone Smith. Against these skeptics, I argue that we can and should use dehumanization to explain an important strand of misogyny. When they are dehumanized, women…

  • Unity Seminar: Invited Talk (In Person) – Claudio Calosi ‘Location & Delegation’

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Location & Delegation Abstract: I present a new (formal) theory of presence according to which, roughly, to be present at a place is for it to have a delegate located at that place. One crucial feature of the theory is that something can be present at a place without thereby being located there. I…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

    This week we are discussing Pamela Hieronymi’s ‘Of Metaethics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism’. Here is the abstract: In his 1982 article, T. M. Scanlon noted that, despite the widespread attention to Rawls’ A Theory of Justice, the appeal of contractualism as a moral theory had been under-appreciated. It seems to me that, nearly…