Abstract: Parts of Quine's philosophy of logic has been revitalized in the recent debate about anti-exceptionalism. According to both the Quinean naturalist and the anti-exceptionalist,...
Title: Where relevance meets many-valued logic: six interesting systems and their semantics. Abstract: In my doctoral dissertation, six new 4-valued logics of interest within the...
Semantic Implications of Evolutionary Theory for Psychology Evolutionary explanations imply ontological commitment to characters. “Character” is a technical term in biology for the units that...
Abstract: Conceptual engineering is the process of assessing and improving our conceptual repertoire. Some authors have claimed that introducing or revising concepts through conceptual engineering...
Title: Disability, Ableism & Assisted Dying Please note that the presentation will include potentially distressing examples of medical ableism and ableist language. AbstractMy aim in this...
Abstract: Many epistemological principles are formulated temporally: a conclusion can be learned from a premise only if the premise is known before the conclusion, a belief is...
Title: The cost of being an Anti-Haecceitist Abstract: Haecceitism is the thesis that there are qualitatively indiscernible and yet distinct possibilities. I argue that Haecceitism...
Judgment First According to Peter Geach, ‘a proposition may occur in discourse now asserted, now unasserted’. Geach calls this ‘the Frege point’. It conflicts with...
Abstract: One major motivation for conceptual engineering is that some ways in which we think and talk about reality are defective. Mona Simion, however, argues...
This week's seminar will be a talk by Francisca Silva titled "Questions and Gender Questioning". It will be a hybrid seminar and you can attend...