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58吃瓜, KY16 9L United Kingdom
58吃瓜, KY16 9L United Kingdom
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A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth): “How should we think about linguistic function?”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract. 鈥� Talk of function often plays a central role in work on conceptual engineering. An appeal to functions can provide much needed standards for evaluating and constructing concepts, according to how well they fulfill their functions, and whether those functions are desirable. However, there has also been a great deal of skepticism about the…
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Language and Mind Seminar | Savvas Ioannou
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Sean Walsh (University of California, Los Angeles)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Modeling contingently existing propositions (and other intensions). Abstract: The traditional Montagovian framework for the analysis of intensional language uses constant domain models. However, in other areas of philosophy which employ modal logic, it is much more common to use variable domain models which permit various forms of contingent existence. Part of the difficulty in…
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Medieval Logic Seminar: John Dumbleton on Insolubles
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Epistemology Seminar. Talk: Philip Ebert (Stirling) and Martin Smith (Edinburgh): “Varieties of Risk”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract: The notion of risk plays a central role in economics, finance, health, psychology, law and elsewhere, and is prevalent in managing challenges and resources in day-to-day life. In recent work, Duncan Pritchard (2015, 2016) has argued against the orthodox probabilistic conception of risk on which the risk of a hypothetical scenario is determined by…
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Super Special Seminar tba
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar | David Ludwig (Wageningen): “The politics of conceptual engineering from a global perspective: Lessons from Latin America and West Africa”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract. 鈥� This talk addresses methodological and political challenges of conceptual engineering in cross-cultural perspective. Based on four case studies of interdisciplinary (empirical and philosophical) research projects in Latin America and West Africa, the talk demonstrates the heterogeneity of epistemological and ontological perspectives of stakeholders and the often hidden politics of their inclusion/exclusion in the…
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Language and Mind Seminar | Amr Salih
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Travis Manuel
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: “Good News for the Subregion Theory of Parthood” Abstract: The Subregion Theory of Parthood is probably the most intuitive theory of parthood. It says that whatever is exactly located at a subregion of your exact location is part of you, and nothing else is. Mutatis mutandisfor all material objects. I defend this view from…
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Medieval Logic Seminar: John Dumbleton on Insolubles
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Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA!). Talk: Mark Schroeder (USC)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom