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SUMMARY:Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Christopher Masterman: "Are abstraction principles all that explanatory?""
DESCRIPTION:An increasingly popular view is that abstracta are thin—their existence alone makes little or no demand on the world. The most sophisticated defence of this view to date is the version of abstractionism found in Linnebo’s recent book Thin Objects (2018). On this view\, good abstraction principles should be understood as involving claims about asymmetric metaphysical dependencies between abstracta (e.g.\, directions\, letter types\, sets) and more familiar objects (e.g.\, lines\, letter tokens\, pluralities). In many ways\, such a view is a highly promising development of more traditional versions of abstractionism. However\, in this paper\, I argue that it\, and any view sufficiently like it\, should ultimately be rejected\, since it cannot adequately respond to a neglected explanatory challenge—what I call the characterisation challenge. This is the demand that any theory of abstracta should accommodate explanations for why abstracta are the way they are. In short\, I argue that the nature of abstracta problematically outstrips the explanatory resources available to this kind of ‘metaphysically serious’ abstractionism.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-logic-seminar-8/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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SUMMARY:ECT Seminar: Adam Carter (Glasgow). Good moves. A Risk-Theoretic Account of Telic Know-How
DESCRIPTION:Title: Good Moves: A Risk-Theoretic Account of Telic Know-How \nAbstract: I defend a new account of telic know-how\, what I call the Good Moves (GM) account. To know how to complete a telic task T is to possess a stable\, trainable disposition to select and sequence good moves across T’s state space\, where a move is good just in case it robustly reduces the risk of task-failure across a neighbourhood of nearby contexts. The GM account reconstructs the intellectualism / anti-intellectualism dispute as a dispute over two distinct functional roles within a single disposition: an underwriting role (occupied by propositional and quasi-propositional representations) and a manifestation role (occupied by motor and perceptual systems). Their relative weight shifts systematically with three structural parameters of the task environment (namely\, the volatility\, alignment\, and precision of a task) which together yield a taxonomy of practical domains from routine/friendly to hostile. The view builds an anti-luck condition into the unit of action itself in such a way as to dispose of Gettier-style worries at the source; it accommodates gradability and context-sensitivity without multiplying kinds of know-how and\, further\, grounds two empirically familiar grades of practical credit\, one Watsonian (attributability) and one Aristotelian (accountability).
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-seminar-14/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260526T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260526T170000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20260406T102313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T102314Z
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SUMMARY:FPST Seminar - Avery Hawkins (In person)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-17-8/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260526T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260526T130000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20260219T100730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T142433Z
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SUMMARY:Philosophy of Language Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-mind-seminar/2026-05-26/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Language
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20260403T154720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260403T154721Z
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SUMMARY:WIKI: No Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar-4-8/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T150000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20260403T085249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260522T113029Z
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SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: No Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-26-8/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260525T110000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20260518T162903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T162933Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: no meeting on 25 May
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-8-2-2-2-2/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260506T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260506T170000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20251126T084344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260508T103716Z
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SUMMARY:Imagination Day
DESCRIPTION:A one-day workshop on the philosophy of imagination\, addressing such questions as: What is the epistemic role of imagination? How does it work in our engagement with fiction and in thought experiments? How does it help with planning ahead? How does it relate to inner speech and to other attitudes\, such as belief and desire? \nSponsored by the Arché projects: \nAesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science (DFG Research Grant) \nWhat If… ? Knowing by Imagining (WIKI) (Leverhulme Trust Grant) \nWednesday\, 6 May 2026 @ 9am to 5pm\, Edgecliffe\, The Scores\, Room G03 \nSCHEDULE (Note: All times are in GMT): \n9:00 – [Welcome and coffee] \n9:30-10:20 – Nick Wiltsher (St Andrews) ‘Fiction Without I-Belief’ \n10:30-11:20 – Petronella Randell (St Andrews) ‘Imagining the Worst: on the Permissibility of Catastrophising’ \n11:30-12:20 – Justin d’Ambrosio (St Andrews) ‘Inner Speech: An Attentional View’ \n[Lunch break] \n14:00-14:50 – Mike Stuart (York) ‘Epistemological Consequences of Defining Imagination as a Skill’ \n15:00-15:50 – Alice Murphy (St Andrews) and William D’Alessandro (William & Mary) ‘Imagination\, Methodology and Ontology’ \n16:00-16:50 – Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna) ‘Imagination\, Fantasy\, and Desire’ \n 
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/imagination-day/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260501T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260501T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
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SUMMARY:Arché/CEPPA Special Seminar: Jennifer Saul “When Norm Violations Come Out of the Shadows”
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jennifer Saul\, the new Arché/CEPPA Professorial Fellow\, will give a talk entitled “When Norm Violations Come out of the Shadows.” \nVenue: Edgfecliffe 104 \nThere will be lunch provided afterwards.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/arche-ceppa-special-seminar-jennifer-saul-when-norm-violations-come-out-of-the-shadows/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104\, University of St Andrews\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Plenary session,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260430T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260430T173000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
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SUMMARY:ECT Spring Workshop - Online communication and political epistemology
DESCRIPTION:April 30th\,  Arche Philosophical Research Centre\, St Andrews University. Venue School II. \nOrganiser: Jessica Brown \nThere is a widespread consensus that the online spread of disinformation\, misinformation\, and hatred have had dramatic and pernicious effects on politics worldwide.  It has arguably contributed in particular to the rise of authoritarian movements and governments\, and to the false beliefs and hatreds that sustain them.  This workshop aims to bring together experts in political philosophy of language and political epistemology to understand the mechanisms at work in our online information and communication ecosystems. \nTalk Timetable: \n09.30-10.45. Zakkou. Defeat as Defense. A Novel Account of Figleaves \n11-1215. Peet. Some Problems in the Ethics of Interpretation \n1215-1315 Lunch (Served in UCO 36\, Spanish seminar room) \n1315-1430. Marsili. The costs and benefits of hiding: anonymous testimony in online spaces. \n1440-1555. Popa-Wyatt. Platform speech should be libertas not gratis \n1555-1615 tea break (Served in UCO 36\, Spanish seminar room) \n1615-1730 Cepollaro. Studying Toxic Speech and Counterspeech On Social Media – Let’s Brainstorm! \n1800 Speaker Dinner \nOpen to philosophy faculty and graduate students outside St Andrews/Stirling by request. Please contact the organiser Jessica Brown in St Andrews. \nAbstracts \nCeppollaro. “Studying Toxic Speech and Counterspeech On Social Media – Let’s Brainstorm!” \nAbstract: In this workshop\, I will present a pilot study (2021) conducted in collaboration with computer scientists\, in which we collected\, annotated\, and analyzed a corpus of Twitter pairs of toxic speech and counterspeech\, focusing on different axes of discrimination such as sexism\, racism\, and homophobia. I will outline the annotation guidelines we used and invite participants to discuss how these might be improved for future studies. This will be interactive: together\, we will reflect on how to refine our annotation practices and\, more broadly\, how to shape our research questions in light of the philosophical issues addressed in the workshop. \nMarsili. The costs and benefits of hiding: anonymous testimony in online spaces\nAnonymous testimony is often taken to be epistemically weaker than ordinary testimony\, givent that it (i) obscures the speaker’s track record and (ii) lowers reputational costs for dishonesty. Pseudonymity appears to fall in between. To test whether this “IPA hierarchy” (identified > pseudonymous > anonymous) is reflected in folk intuitions about source credibility\, we conducted a preregistered experiment (N = 1\,241). Participants preferred more identifiable sources across contexts\, supporting the hypothesised hyerarchy. The findings provide empirical data points for theorising about testimony\, trust\, and persuasion in online environrments\, and have implications for current debates over the regulation of anonymity in digital spaces. \nPeet.  Some Problems in the Ethics of Interpretation \nAbstract: We have an expectation that others at least attempt to interpret us correctly\, and we naturally feel indignation and resentment when we feel that they are making no attempt to do so. This is illustrated particularly clearly by considering the form of performative misinterpretation many of us are familiar with from cross political discourse on online platforms such as twitter.  Consideration of such cases lends itself to the thought that we somehow wrong others when we make no attempt to interpret them correctly. But why would this be? The answer we give will depend on how we conceive of interpretation. I start by considering some answers we might give from within the ‘interrogative’ view of interpretation – the view of interpretation that naturally falls out of the ‘Lockean’ model of communication. These answers derive from work on epistemic injustice\, doxastic wrongdoing\, and respect. These answers all seem to get something right – but none of them are wholly satisfactory. I then consider the question from within an alternative ‘sense-making’ view of interpretation and suggest that by failing to engage in responsible interpretation we both disrespect and alienate the speaker. \nPopa-Wyatt. Platform speech should be libertas not gratis \nThe question I want to focus on is: who is the legally responsible actor for online hate speech? Is a hateful utterance the responsibility of the individual user who made it? Or does the platform have the responsibilities of a publisher? What system of regulation should govern social media? \nThe primary responsibility is that of the users. However\, wrongful harms of individuals wouldn’t be as impactful offline as they are online\, given the amplifying effect of social media algorithms. This makes social media companies morally complicit to the harmful content of their users. Therefore\, they should have a moral duty to minimize their complicity. Currently\, social media companies discharge their duty to avoid complicity through self-regulation. Platforms set up content rules concerning incitement as part of content moderation. However\, human content moderation is costly and automated moderation is far from being reliable. \nUsers also tend to use code words or turns of phrase\, creating a safe lexicon that will avoid getting their posts removed\, or down-ranked by content moderation systems. Platforms have also implemented approved risk assessments to reduce illegal content and to reduce lawful but harmful content. However\, self-audit remains company specific. They are also required to conduct “upload filtering”\, whereby all user content is scanned for its (company-assessed) legality before it hits the internet. This enables platforms to engage in a form of “prior restraint” of illicit speech. \nToday social media companies have legal duties to remove harmful content from their platforms. Enforcement by companies and regulators is patchy – leading to concerns that filtering all online speech is too burdensome to be practical. Various countries have laws holding the individual responsible. However\, enforcement at scale is challenging\, particularly if a criminal offence has to be prosecuted. \nZakkou Defeat as Defense. A Novel Account of Figleaves\nSuppose someone makes a racist or sexist remark but prefaces it with “I’m not a racist/sexist\, but…” or later dismisses it as “locker room talk.” These rhetorical maneuvers are now commonly known as figleaves: rhetorical devices that obscure otherwise apparent norm violations. Figleaves can be dangerous. It is therefore important to find effective strategies to counter them. In this paper\, we propose a new account of figleaves that lays the groundwork for such strategies. On our account\, figleaves defeat evidence for norm violations\, while this defeating effect would be canceled if the audience were to properly process the evidence already available to them.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-spring-workshop/
LOCATION:School II\, United College\, St Salvators Quad\, St Andrews\, KY169AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Metaphysical Building
DESCRIPTION:The University of Tennessee Southern’s School of Arts and Humanities and the University of St. Andrews’ Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic\, Language\, Metaphysics\, and Epistemology will be hosting a two-day online workshop on the Metaphysics of Building. \nThe aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars working on the metaphysics of building\, broadly construed\, to explore how building relations such as grounding\, composition\, constitution\, and realization connect the more fundamental to the less fundamental. Talk of “building”—of one thing being based in\, generated by\, or constructed out of another—runs throughout contemporary metaphysics. This workshop focuses on the family of building relations\, examining issues such as their nature\, their possible unity or disunity\, and their implications for how we conceive of what is fundamental and what is not. \nDATES AND VENUE: 16 and 17 January 2026\, online via Microsoft Teams \nSPEAKERS: Paul Audi (University of Rochester)\, Karen Bennett (Rutgers University)\, Sheiva Kleinschmidt (University of Southern California)\, Peter van Inwagen (University of Notre Dame & Duke University)\, and Nathan Wildman (Tilburg University) \nREGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/hWmBG7h2JhVauTQ57 \nSCHEDULE (Note: All times are in GMT): \nEvery slot includes: The main talk (40 minutes)\, and Q&A (25 minutes). \nDay 1: Friday\, January 16 \n14:55–15:00 — Opening Remarks\n15:00–15:40 — Shieva Kleinschmidt\n15:40–16:05 — Audience Q&A\n16:05–16:20 — Break\n16:20–17:00 — Paul Audi\n17:00–17:25 — Audience Q&A \nDay 2: Saturday\, January 17 \n14:00–14:40 — Nathan Wildman\n14:40–15:05 — Audience Q&A\n15:05–15:20 — Break\n15:20–16:00 — Peter van Inwagen\n16:00–16:25 — Audience Q&A\n16:25–16:40 — Break\n16:40–17:20 — Karen Bennett\n17:20–17:45 — Audience Q&A\n17:45 — Closing Remarks \nThis workshop is supported by Aaron J. Cotnoir’s EPSRC Funded Project Instruments of Unity: the Many Ways of Being One. \nTITLES & ABSTRACTS: In Progress \nPaul Audi: Indeterministic Grounding Via Indeterministic Causation \nIt’s easy to think that grounding must be deterministic. Grounding relations derive from essences\, essences yield necessities\, and where there’s necessity\, there’s no indeterminism. But this is too quick. I will show how you could be led to grounding indeterminism by indeterminism about causation. The crucial links are the idea of causation as power-manifestation\, and an understanding of power-manifestation as a special case of grounding. I will present an argument that clarifies the route from indeterministic causation to indeterministic grounding\, and discuss some views that lend support to the premises. These include a novel account of dispositions\, which in turn gives us occasion to discuss the ideas of reduction and elimination—both of which I regard as alternatives to\, rather than cases of\, grounding or building. \nNathan Wildman: Necessary fundamentals? \nThis talk focuses on two distinct but inter-related questions at the intersection of modality and fundamentality: (1) Do the entities that are metaphysically fundamental necessarily or contingently exist?\, and (2) Is the property of being fundamental a necessary or contingent property? Here\, I argue for contingentist answers to both questions. Specifically\, after articulating and distinguishing the two questions\, I raise a general argument against the idea that fundamental entities are necessary existents\, derived from a traditional objection to the Principle of Sufficient Reason. I then present three cases designed to show that being fundamental is\, for some entities\, a contingent property. This leads to a brief aside where I discuss and ultimately dismiss a potential objection to this contingentism. Finally\, I conclude by discussing the general plausibility of the thorough-going contingentism on offer. \nShieva Kleinschmidt: Weak Supplementation of Pluralities and Constitution \nWeak Supplementation is commonly used to rule out two kinds of cases. (i) What I call “inadequate crowd” cases\, where some part is not enough to make up the whole object but there’s no disjoint supplementing part\, and (ii) constitution cases\, where one thing does seem to constitute the whole of something distinct\, and there’s no disjoint supplementing object. The impossibility of inadequate crowd cases is motivated by the intuition that\, if you have just some of something\, there must be some more of it beyond what you’ve already got. I’ve argued that this intuition also supports Weak Supplementation of Pluralities\, which says that if some xs are parts of y but y is not a fusion of the xs\, then there’s some z that is part of y and disjoint from the xs.  Interestingly\, one can accept WSP while rejecting WS. This allows for ruling out inadequate crowd cases\, while allowing for distinct 1-1 constitution. And it allows us to do this without taking proper parthood to be asymmetric parthood. \nPeter van Inwagen: Buildings \nThese are the building relations: composition\, constitution\, grounding\, and realization. Composition and constitution are mereological relations\, and pose no problems beyond those—if there are any—posed by parthood. (Proponents of constitution have generally supposed that constitution is not a mereological relation\, but there is a plausible definition of constitution in terms of parthood.) Grounding is of two sorts\, phenomenal grounding and ontological grounding. Phenomenal grounding is the grounding of phenomena in phenomena\, and ontological grounding is the grounding of objects of one sort in objects of another sort. If the mental is grounded in the physical\, that is a case of phenomenal grounding. If a unit set is grounded in its member\, that is a case of ontological grounding. Phenomenal grounding is very much like supervenience—if it is not simply identical with supervenience. It will be argued that whether ontological grounding in fact occurs depends on the answers to certain fundamental meta-ontological questions. And\, finally\, there is realization. Like phenomenal grounding\, realization may simply be supervenience\, but it is difficult to say what realization is\, owing to the use by its proponents of technical terms that\, to my mind\, have not got satisfactory definitions. I will explain why it seems to me that some of these terms—‘higher-level property’ and ‘property instance’\, for example—have not been adequately defined. \nKaren Bennett: Finding Dry Ground \nI articulate two mistakes in standard ways of thinking about the apparent need for grounding\, and restructure the discussion in a way that both reclassifies the teams and reveals new possible positions for those who prefer desert landscapes. While I will mostly be talking about grounding rather than building relations generally\, I will also clarify\, in big-picture ways\, how this project relates to what I was doing in Making Things Up. (Hint: pages 58-9.)
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/workshop-on-metaphysical-building/
LOCATION:A virtual workshop by Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:Conference,Workshops
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251218T143000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
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SUMMARY:ECT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-seminar/2025-12-18/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251218T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251218T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20250902T103654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070526Z
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SUMMARY:Plenary / Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-special-seminar/2025-12-18/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Sabina Dominguez Parrado\, "What are logical pluralists pluralist about?"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk clarifies and reassesses the scope of logical pluralism. I first argue that philosophers of logic often overlook an important distinction between the word ‘valid’\, the concept validity\, and the property validity. As a result\, it is often unclear what the subject matter of logical theories is\, and what exactly logical pluralists are pluralist about. With this distinction in mind\, I argue that the pluralist proposal advanced by Beall and Restall is best understood as the conjunction of individually plausible but jointly incompatible claims about the concept validity and the word ‘valid’. I then show that other extant forms of pluralism located at the linguistic and conceptual levels initially appear to avoid this tension but ultimately incur important difficulties. I conclude by considering the prospects for a coherent and substantial form of pluralism at the linguistic and conceptual levels.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-12/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
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SUMMARY:FPST Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-16/2025-12-16/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251216T140000
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SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-48/2025-12-16/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251215T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251215T170000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20250902T102944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070212Z
UID:10019450-1765810800-1765818000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar/2025-12-15/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251215T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251215T150000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20251211T153416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251211T153417Z
UID:10019436-1765803600-1765810800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Christopher Masterman "How to Explain Composition"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: It is commonplace to think that composition is explained by relations—what I call the relational idea. Many argue that taking this seriously requires rejecting the idea that classical mereology—the most well-known formal theory of parthood—tells us anything important about the nature of composites. In this paper\, I have two aims. First\, I want to explore the extent to which we can take the relational idea seriously without abandoning classical mereology completely. Second\, I want to motivate an interest in a neglected question about composition\, which asks how relations figure in explanations of composition. I argue that by taking this question seriously\, we can better understand the extent to which the relational idea is in tension with classical mereology.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-25-14/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251215T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251215T110000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20251212T220331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251212T220332Z
UID:10019422-1765791000-1765796400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Buridan's treatise on suppositions\, chapter 6
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-7-2/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251211T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251211T170000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20251013T144630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251117T101507Z
UID:10019530-1765445400-1765472400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Scottish Feminist Philosophy Network - Paper Jam event
DESCRIPTION:This paper jam is an opportunity for post-graduates to share work that is in early stages with lots of time for discussion and connect with others in the Scottish Feminist Philosophy Network. Afterwards\, we’ll have a social at a local pub. Speakers TBC
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/femsem-pg-paper-jam/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104\, University of St Andrews\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20250427T083559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T152053Z
UID:10019405-1761213600-1761220800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar: Pree Jareonsettasin (Cambridge)\, 'Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue'
DESCRIPTION:TITLE: ‘Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue: reconciling divine determinism with creaturely freedom by distinguishing sorts of contingency’. \nABSTRACT: \nIs man free in a world created by God and over which God exercises providence? The fourteenth-century logician-mathematician-theologian Thomas Bradwardine has\, for seven centuries\, been accused of having sacrificed human freedom on the altar of divine providence. He argued that every event occurs\, by unstoppable divine will\, of necessity. Yet he is committed to non-divine moral agents contingently determining their actions. His divine determinism needs a complementarily credible account of contingent action.  \nThe main aim of this paper is to expound Bradwardine’s account of (the modal notion) contingency and trace its consequences for understanding freedom of action. I first set up the reconciliation problem and show three claims: that Bradwardine \n(1)  was\, like David Lewis\, a modal contextualist\, taking the meaning of everyday modal terms to depends on an implicit context (relevant causal facts\, including facts about causal preconditions). \n(2)  defines contingency as a causal concept. Calling an action contingent relates it to its causal circumstances: E is contingent iff given the obtaining of E’s causal preconditions\, E is evitable. \n(3)  distinguishes between two (simpliciter/unrestricted and secundum-quid/restricted) types of contingency. E is contingent simpliciter iff all of E’s causal preconditions obtain and E is evitable. E is contingent secundum-quid iff some of E’s causal preconditions obtain and E is evitable. \nI argue he solves the reconciliation problem through his insight that when our actions are considered to be up to us\, we don’t consider God as their causal agent (even though He is). Accordingly\, our everyday moral-responsibility-relevant use of modal terms is implicitly indexicalised to a domain of causal facts restricted to exclude the causal fact of God’s unstoppable causation of all events. Assume that a free action won’t inevitably occur given the obtainment of its non-divine causal preconditions. It follows\, by Bradwardine’s definition of restricted contingency\, that free action is contingent secundum-quid. \nA significant upshot is that the seven-century-old accusation that Bradwardine’s commitment to theological fatalism entails an error-theoretic account of creaturely freedom is unfounded. His deterministic worldview does not entail holding a proto-Hobbesian/Calvinist/Frankfurtian view of freedom. The future is (metaphysically\, not merely phenomenologically) open\, because our fellow creatures cannot compel us to freely act.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-seminar-pree-jareonsettasin/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group,Plenary session,Speaker visit
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20250205T195744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T143247Z
UID:10019384-1760950800-1761066000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:14th Arché Graduate Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Arché Philosophical Research Centre at the University of St Andrews is pleased to announce the 14th Arché Graduate Conference. The conference will be held on 20 & 21 October 2025 and is open to all graduate students. The conference will consist of two invited keynote speakers and eight graduate student speakers. \nIf you wish to attend this event\, please register via the following link \nhttps://buytickets.at/standrewsuniversity/1868748 \nIn person registration – 14th Arché Graduate Conference – UCO: School V \n\n \nAGC14 Provisional Programme \nMonday 20 October 2025 \n9:30 — 10:00 Welcome & Coffee \n10:00 — 10:15 Opening Remarks \n10:15 — 11:15 On Typed Reality Francis Gricius\, University of Oxford \n11:15 — 11:30 Coffee Break \n11:30 — 12:30 Expressive Lies (online) Luise Mirow\, Umeå University \n12:30 — 1:45 Lunch \n1:45 — 2:45 The One Fundamental Ground\, Andrea Lupo\, University of Lugano \n2:45 — 3:00 Coffee Break \n3:00 — 4:00 Dualism and the Hard Problem of the Many Aleksandra Kuciel\, Syracuse University \n4:00 — 4:15 Coffee Break \n4:15 — 5:15 Keynote Jonathan Schaffer\, Rutgers University \n6:30 Speaker Dinner \nTuesday 21 October 2025 \n9:30 — 10:00 Welcome & Coffee \n10:00 —11:00 Keynote Fiona Macpherson\, University of Glasgow \n11:00 —11:15 Coffee Break \n11:15 — 12:15 A Puzzle about Mind-Wandering Edvard Aviles Meza\, Cornell University \n12:15 — 1:30 Lunch \n1:30 — 2:30 Coerced Illocutions: ‘Don’t Put Words in my Mouth!’ Eirini Vryza\, University of Cambridge \n2:30 — 2:45 Coffee Break \n2:45 — 3:45 Acceptance or Suspension? A Puzzle for Hinge Epistemology\, Ben Long\, University of Warwick \n3:45 — 4:00 Coffee Break \n4:00 — 5:00 Minimalism without Creeping Bojin Zhu\, University of Vienna \n5:00 — 5:15 Closing Remarks
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/14th-arche-graduate-conference-call-for-papers/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T143000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20250930T081246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T082108Z
UID:10019213-1760014800-1760020200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar:
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Vermaire (St Andrews) ‘Practical Inquiry’
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-9-6/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250715T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250715T170000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20250701T111040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250713T214637Z
UID:10019267-1752591600-1752598800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Arianna Falbo (Online)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Zetetic Exclusion: Don’t You Worry Your Pretty Little Head About It \nAbstract: Inquiry is a core part of daily life. However\, inquiring environments—the spaces where we put forth questions\, seek out answers\, and look to others for advice\, guidance\, and support—can be sites of hostility\, distrust\, and outright injustice.This talk considers the dynamics of inquiry under conditions of oppression. Scholarship on epistemic injustice has drawn important attention to how prejudice can prevent one from being appropriately recognized as a credible source of knowledge. However\, discussions of epistemic injustice have tended to overlook inquiry and the influence of prejudice in shaping the conditions under which knowledge is acquired in the first place. We will examine cases of zetetic exclusion: situations where only select members of society have meaningful access to investigate and to learn about important subjects. This gate-keeping of knowledge and information\, I argue\, constitutes a distinctive form of zetetic injustice that is not easily captured by standard accounts of epistemic injustice. Reflecting on these cases helps to reveal important dimensions of epistemic injustice\, especially how one’s capacity to learn\, and to pursue knowledge and other epistemic good\, may be undermined due to prejudice and asymmetric relations of power.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-14-5/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250714T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250714T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20250521T211018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T073157Z
UID:10019370-1752494400-1752501600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Cancelled
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-24/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250709T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250709T170000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20250701T112024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250701T123333Z
UID:10019295-1752073200-1752080400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar:
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-22-13/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250708T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250708T140000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20250702T124929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250702T124929Z
UID:10019408-1751976000-1751983200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar: Pitt (2024) Chapter 2
DESCRIPTION:Seminar TBC
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-pitt-2024-chapter-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250703T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250703T120000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20240530T092754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T073909Z
UID:10019309-1751536800-1751544000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar:
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-seminar-6/2025-07-03/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250630T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250630T170000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20250630T075647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T075647Z
UID:10019281-1751295600-1751302800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Aybüke Özgün (ILLC\, University of Amsterdam) \nTitle: Rethinking Logics of Imagination \nDate: 30 June 2025 \nTime: 15:00 – 17:00 UK time \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104 and Teams \nYou can join online via Teams. \n 
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar-2-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250630T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250630T110000
DTSTAMP:20260531T233511
CREATED:20240530T083614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T080039Z
UID:10019239-1751275800-1751281200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: John Buridan\, 'Summulae de Suppositionibus' from his Summulae de Dialectica
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-6/2025-06-30/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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