• Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Andrea Oliani (University of St. Andrews)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58勛圖, United Kingdom

    TITLE: Against Conservative Ontology ABSTRACT:In his recent bookObjects: Nothing Out of the Ordinary(2015), Dan Z. Korman argues in favour of conservatism in metaphysics, that is, very roughly, that what weordinarilytake there to be is true. Especially, we are right about how many objects there are and what these objects are supposed to be. Korman takes…

  • Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Rima Basu (CMC) “Normative Expectations”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58勛圖, United Kingdom

    Abstract: In supplementing the familiar ways that our interpersonal relationships are morally fraught, recent work in epistemology on doxastic wronging has highlighted how these relationships can be epistemically fraught as well. However, in focusing predominantly on beliefs mental states that arguably constitute a small fraction of our mental livesthese theories have their own theoretical blindspots.…

  • Conceptual Engineering Seminar |sta (SFSU): “What Are Sex and Gender and What Do We Want Them to Be?”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58勛圖, United Kingdom

    ABSTRACT. We are living in times where there is considerable debate over what sex and gender are and who gets to be of what sex and what gender. These are questions that impact people’s lives greatly, some more than others. They are metaphysical questions but they also concern what principles we should be guided by…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58勛圖, United Kingdom

    TITLE: Fundamentality Without Favouritism ABSTRACT: According to a widely endorsed conception of fundamentality, the fundamental is characterized in terms of a certain privileged relation or set of relations. On this conception, something is fundamental just in case it is unexplained relative to a unique privileged relation or a privileged set of relations. Let us say…