Metaphysics and Logic Seminar:
Wee relaxed organisational meeting with tea and biscuits.
Wee relaxed organisational meeting with tea and biscuits.
Wee gathering to hang, catch up, and start the new academic year. All welcome! Drinks and snacks provided.
Abstract: Even if philosophers cant agree on whether to locate the source of vagueness in the world, in our language, or in our knowledge, we can agree that at least some ordinary mereological claims are vague. For some candidate vague object, like Edinburgh or Mt Everest, we may regard some of its parts as being…
Title:Respect, Religion, and Feminism: Political Liberalism as Feminist Liberalism? Abstract:This chapter considers whether political liberalism, specifically, can be used for feminist ends. There is significant disagreement among feminists and liberals about the compatibility between their two doctrines. Political liberalism is vulnerable to particular criticism from feminists, who argue that its restricted form of equality is…
Speaker: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis) Should have Knownand Epistemically Appropriate Belief Sometimes people dont know things they should have known. For instance, cardiologists should know about recent major developments that bear on their practice; if they dont know, they should have. Can what a person should have known matter to what theyre…
Title: Some Thoughts on Victimhood and Feminism Abstract: In her book Conflict Is Not Abuse (2016), Sarah Schulman argues that, in many domains of public and private life, false accusations of harm allow (groups of) people to conflate conflict, which is quotidian, and abuse, which is more problematic but infrequent. The general tendency to mis-identify…
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