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  • Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Emmalon Davis (UMich) “Challenging the Pursuit of Novelty”

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

    Abstract:聽Novelty鈥攗nderstood as the value of saying something new鈥攁ppears to be a good-making feature of a philosophical contribution. Beyond this, however, novelty functions as a marker of philosophical success: contributions that say something new are considered successful, while contributions that do not say something new are considered unsuccessful. When novelty serves as a marker and metric…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Helen Beebee (University of Manchester)

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

    Title: The Genesis of Lewis鈥檚 Counterfactual Analysis of Causation Abstract: Lewis presented a prototype counterfactual analysis of causation back in 1958 鈥� aged just 16 or 17 鈥� in the very first undergraduate philosophy essay he ever wrote. I place this paper in its historical context, relating it to the state of the debate at…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Lara Jost “Knowledge: Emotions, Perception and Rational Agents”

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

    Abstract: In contemporary analytic epistemology, emotions are usually not considered to be a good justification for an agent鈥檚 belief, in the same way perception, memory, reasoning or testimony are, due to emotions facing issues when it comes to being reliable and sensitive to defeaters. In this talk, I argue that this problem can be overcome…

  • Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽Mona Simion (Glasgow): “Engineering Evidence”

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

    ABSTRACT. 鈥斅燛vidence matters in philosophy: the concept of evidence is central to both epistemology and the philosophy of science. Outside philosophy, the concept of evidence is highly employed as well: lawyers, judges, historians and scientists, investigative journalists and reporters, as well as ordinary folk in the course of everyday life talk and think about evidence…