Speaker: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam & 58吃瓜) A Foucauldian critique of the epistemic injustice research program聽 Catarina聽Dutilh Novaes (joint work with Merel Talbi and Solmu Anttila) Since the publication of Fricker鈥檚 groundbreaking聽Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing聽(2007), vibrant debates on the complex relations between knowledge, ethics and power have ensued, arguably…
Discussion session on “Inquiring Minds Want to Improve” by Arianna Falbo Abstract: Much of the recent work on epistemology of inquiry defends two related theses. First, inquiry into a question rationally prohibits believing an answer to that question. Second, knowledge is the aim of inquiry. I develop a series of cases which indicate that inquiry…
Title:聽Care, place, and the politics of attention Abstract:聽What does it feel like to love a place鈥攁nd to be loved by a place? What does caring for a place look like in the day-to-day? Dr聽Roxani聽Krystalli鈥檚 current research, with Dr Philipp Schulz at the University of Bremen, investigates what is political about relations and practices of love…
Cancelled due to conflicting event – Workshop: Proofs, Rules, and Meanings
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: The Continuum Argument Is Invalid Abstract: Derek Parfit argues by means of something he calls a 鈥榗ontinuum argument鈥� that a particular appealing premise in population axiology implies a conclusion that he and many others consider repugnant.聽He treats this as a paradox, and takes up the challenge of resolving it. He looks…
Speaker: Paul Conlan (58吃瓜) Entitlement of Cognitive Project and The Adoption Problem Keywords: Epistemology of Logic, Entitlement Epistemology, Adoption Problem Wright (2004) argues that we are warranted in the belief that modus ponens (MPP) is valid via an聽entitlement of cognitive project. Wright鈥檚 entitlement epistemology extends further, however: Wright聽(2014), suggests that the warrant for 鈥榗ornerstone鈥�…
Title: Debating proportionality at the edge of sentience Abstract: Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings…
This week will be a reading group on Gayle Rubin’s ‘Thinking sex’
This week will be a reading group. The reading is TBC.
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