Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Reading group on Williamson’s “Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy”
We will be discussing Chapters 3 and 4.
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Language and Mind seminar: Eklund (2024) Chapter 3
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Gillian Russell, reading group on the Metaphysics of Logic
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsWe will be reading through a draft of Chapters 1 and 2 of Gillian Russell’s The Metaphysics of Logic.
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Language and Mind seminar: Eklund (2024) Chapter 2
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Reading group on Williamson’s “Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy”
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsWe will be discussing Chapters 2 and 3.
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Reading group on Williamson’s “Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy”
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsWe will be discussing Chapters 1 and 2.
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Epistemology Seminar: Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsPhilip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism (joint work 聽with N. Pedersen) The dominant approach in the literature on risk is to adopt a monist stance by taking the probabilistic notion of risk to be the only proper notion. However, there is a growing philosophical literature on non-probabilistic notions of risk. In this…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Greg Restall (58吃瓜)
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsTitle:聽What do we聽mean? Semantics, Practices and Pluralism 聽 Abstract:聽In this informal talk, I will revisit some longstanding issues in philosophical logic in the light of some contemporary developments.聽 聽 The longstanding issues? (1) Michael Dummett鈥檚 challenge in聽The Logical Basis of Metaphysics聽to the effect that to get anywhere in fundamental issues of metaphysics we would do…
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Language and Mind seminar: Derek Ball (University of 58吃瓜)
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsTitle: 鈥淚mmanent Interpretation鈥� Bryan Pickel and Derek Ball Abstract: Famous arguments purport to show that all, or a substantial fragment, of language is indeterminate in meaning.聽 Quine and Davidson motivated indeterminacy arguments by attending to the possibility of different translations of a foreign language and to the possibility of differing uses of homophonic expressions among…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Shawn Simpson (University of Pittsburgh)
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsTitle: ‘Logic and Inference in the Sender-Receiver Model’ Abstract: Logic, inference, language 鈥� somehow these are all connected. But how? One of David Lewis鈥檚 goals in his book聽Convention聽(1969)聽was to answer this question. There, he presented what is now known as the sender-receiver model of communication, and he revealed how conventionally meaningful communication might come about.…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar x FPST Seminar: Marta Sznajder (University of Vienna)
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsJanina Hosiasson鈥檚 logic of rational degrees of belief: subjective probability before and after Ramsey Abstract: In 1931, Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum proposed a proto-decision-theoretic answer to the value of evidence problem, originally posed by C. D. Broad and eventually solved by I. J. Good in the context of Savage鈥檚 decision theory. As an influence on her paper…
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Language and Mind seminar: Christoph Hoerl
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsMemory and the feeling of pastness Recent accounts of episodic memory have revived some ideas familiar from the 鈥榚mpiricist theory of memory鈥�, which go back at least as far as Hume. New versions of the empiricist theory cite two separate bodies of recent research in psychology in support of thinking of episodic memory along empiricist…