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SUMMARY:ECT Seminar Goldberg 'Moral Certainty'
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-seminar-19-5/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261112T100000
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DTSTAMP:20260831T095313Z
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SUMMARY:Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Ad-hoc seminar bookings
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/special-seminar/2026-11-12/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Super Special Seminar series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T150000
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DTSTAMP:20261106T142823Z
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Masanobu Toyooka - 'Weak Logic of Warranted Assertability'
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In his influential work Truth and Objectivity\, Crispin Wright argued against truth deflationism by appealing to the concept of warranted assertability. Although originally aimed at deflationism\, his argument also poses a potential challenge to positions that treat warranted assertability as the central concept of semantics. Restall (2001) observed that Wright’s challenge can be circumvented by modeling warranted assertability as an operator satisfying two specific conditions over Kripke semantics for intuitionistic logic. However\, Restall did not formulate a concrete logic incorporating such an operator either semantically or syntactically. The aim of this talk is to explore the weakest expansion of intuitionistic logic with a warranted assertability operator that satisfies Restall’s conditions. We develop a Hilbert system for this logic\, consider its extension\, and discuss whether the operator can—or should—be regarded as intuitionistic in light of Gabbay’s (1981) criteria.\n※This work is based on discussions with Greg Restall.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-logic-seminar-23/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261110T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261110T170000
DTSTAMP:20260918T105419Z
CREATED:20260918T105419Z
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SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Naomi Sutton Kachani (St Andrews) - In Person
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-18-8/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261110T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261110T150000
DTSTAMP:20260914T092442Z
CREATED:20260914T092442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T092442Z
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SUMMARY:Representations of Science reading group
DESCRIPTION:Reading Group sessions will take place on: \n15 Sept \n13 Oct \n27 Oct \n10 Nov \n24 Nov \n8 Dec
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/representations-of-science-reading-group/2026-11-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Representations of Science reading group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261109T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261109T170000
DTSTAMP:20260910T143516Z
CREATED:20260910T143516Z
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SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar: Rory: Alicia Steinmetz 'Why the Imaginary Needs the Imagination'
DESCRIPTION: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/732252
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar-5-13/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261109T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261109T150000
DTSTAMP:20261103T164738Z
CREATED:20260909T091844Z
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SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Invited Speaker (in person) Salvatore Florio (University of Oslo) "Lifting the Veil of Type Distinctions: For and Against"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I explore some of the technical and philosophical questions that arise when we attempt to “lift the veil” of syntactic type distinctions characteristic of higher-order logic\, reinterpreting these distinctions within an untyped framework. After discussing some basic formal results\, I assess the main arguments for and against lifting the veil. I defend the view that lifting the veil has theoretical benefits and that the arguments against it are not compelling. I conclude by reflecting on the implications of this view for higher-order metaphysics.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-27-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261109T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261109T110000
DTSTAMP:20261012T110314Z
CREATED:20260831T091131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261012T110314Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Marsilius of Inghen\, De Relativis
DESCRIPTION:An online seminar
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-9/2026-11-09/
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
ORGANIZER;CN="Stephen Read":MAILTO:arche@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261105T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261105T153000
DTSTAMP:20260831T095429Z
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SUMMARY:ECT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-seminar-19/2026-11-05/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260923T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260923T130000
DTSTAMP:20260921T090113Z
CREATED:20260831T094328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T090113Z
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SUMMARY:Philosophy of Language Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/philosophy-of-language-seminar/2026-09-23/
LOCATION:Arché Seminar Room\, 17-19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY169AL
CATEGORIES:Philosophy of Language Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260912
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SUMMARY:Book symposium on McGrath's 'What should we believe?'
DESCRIPTION:Book Symposium on McGrath’s What should we believe? \nFurther details TBC
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/what-should-we-believe/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104\, University of St Andrews\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Unity Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-26/2026-07-20/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260716T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260716T160000
DTSTAMP:20260316T112825Z
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SUMMARY:Language & Mind (Summer seminar)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-mind-summer-seminar/2026-07-16/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104\, University of St Andrews\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T170000
DTSTAMP:20260713T045407Z
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Hannes Leitgeb: "On the Difference Semantics for Conditionals"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In my talk I will present a new semantics for conditionals according to which “if A then B“ is true in case (i) the corresponding Stalnaker-Lewis conditional is true\, and (ii) the antecedent A makes a difference to the consequent B. The novely of the semantics consists in the analysis of (ii)\, which is made precise as: the distance between the closest B-worlds and the closest non-B-worlds is smaller than the distance between the closest A&B-worlds and the closest A&non-B-worlds. I will explain how the required ordering of distances between worlds can be captured in non-numerical terms\, what the logic is like that is sound and complete with respect to the semantics\, what a probabilistic version of the semantics looks like\, and why the system is to be preferred over other recent semantics and logics of conditionals that analyse (ii) above differently. \n(This is joint work with Hans Rott.)
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-logic-seminar-hannes-leitgeb/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260714T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260714T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T102536Z
CREATED:20260406T102536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T102536Z
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SUMMARY:FPST - End of semester social!
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-17-12/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260706T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260706T170000
DTSTAMP:20260703T155258Z
CREATED:20260419T152719Z
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SUMMARY:Alice Murphy and Rory Kent: Schwartz (2021) Political imagination and its limits
DESCRIPTION:https://www.jstor.org/stable/48692994
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/alice-murphy-and-rory-kent/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T160000
DTSTAMP:20260602T095220Z
CREATED:20260602T095114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260602T095220Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Philosophy Symposium
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, feminist philosophy has become increasingly mainstream\, present and even sought after in many philosophy departments. But this is a recent development\, and still an unevenly distributed one. There are still many philosophers\, and even many departments\, who view feminist philosophy with suspicion\, considering it to be “not really philosophy”. This discussion will explore the period during which feminist philosophers worked to establish feminist philosophy in philosophy departments\, with varying degrees of success \nThe discussion has two starting points: (1) Jennifer Saul’s review of Louise Antony’s Only Natural and (2) Taking Root\, a work in progress edited by Matthew Cull\, Katharine Jenkins\, and Jennifer Saul\, which consists of articles by and interviews with the feminist philosophers who worked to establish the field. Jessica Brown\, Matthew Cull\, Jade Fletcher\, and Jennifer Saul will discuss themes and questions which emerge from this work\, before opening up the discussion to the audience.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/feminist-philosophy-symposium/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Workshops
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260625T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260625T143000
DTSTAMP:20260605T094045Z
CREATED:20260414T160216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T094045Z
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SUMMARY:ECT Seminar: Jack Lyons (Glasgow)- Knowing from prosthetic perception
DESCRIPTION:Knowing from Prosthetic Perception \nJack Lyons \nUniversity of Glasgow \n  \nProsthetic perception is perception that is enabled or facilitated by a mechanism designed to generate a type or quality of perception that wouldn’t otherwise be attainable. I mean for the category to include the use of  telescopes\, hearing aids\, sensory substitution devices\, and also fuel and other gauges\, perhaps even psychedelic drugs and virtual or augmented reality. I presume that prosthetic perception can give us knowledge and justified belief—indeed\, this is part of what distinguishes them from “sensory engineering” more generally. Here I want to explore questions of how this knowledge is like or unlike the knowledge associated with ordinary perception. In particular\, I’m interested in two questions about the directness of prosthetic perception: (a) does it provide new knowledge/justification by allowing us to perceive (literally see/hear/etc.) things (objects/properties/events/etc.) that we couldn’t otherwise? And (b) is prosthetic perception inferential in a way that ordinary perception is not? I will also be asking whether and how these two questions are related\, as the answer to the second might well be constrained by the answer to the first. My discussion will be framed in terms of Dretske’s seminal (1969) discussion of nonepistemic\, primary epistemic\, and secondary epistemic seeing\, but also in terms of inferentialism and presumptivism from the recent testimony debate.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-seminar-18/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260615T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260615T110000
DTSTAMP:20260518T102747Z
CREATED:20260518T102608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T102747Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Marsilius of Inghen: Appellation
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-8-2-2-2/2026-06-15/
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:20260526T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260526T130000
DTSTAMP:20260325T142433Z
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:20260506T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260506T170000
DTSTAMP:20260508T103716Z
CREATED:20251126T084344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260508T103716Z
UID:10019532-1778058000-1778086800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
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:20260811T142249Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260430T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260430T173000
DTSTAMP:20260508T103448Z
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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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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:20251212T140031Z
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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:20250915T070356Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20250915T070306Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251215T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070212Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251215T150000
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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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