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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: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:20260601T030553
CREATED:20250902T103654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070526Z
UID:10019506-1766052000-1766059200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251217T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
CREATED:20250908T083243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251212T140031Z
UID:10019492-1765983600-1765990800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251216T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
CREATED:20250902T103351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070356Z
UID:10019478-1765897200-1765904400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251216T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251216T140000
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
CREATED:20250902T103225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070306Z
UID:10019464-1765886400-1765893600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251215T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251215T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
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:20260601T030553
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:20260601T030553
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251211T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251211T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T120000
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
CREATED:20250427T083559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T152053Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
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:20260601T030553
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:20260601T030553
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:20260601T030553
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:20260601T030553
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:20260601T030553
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:20260601T030553
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:20260601T030553
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:20260601T030553
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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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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar:
DESCRIPTION:Zoe Johnson-King (Harvard) TBA
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-10-2-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250619
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250622
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
CREATED:20241111T095015Z
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SUMMARY:Social Metametaphysics Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Social Metametaphysics Workshop \nEvent Description \nThe aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars to discuss the nature and methodology of social metaphysics. Interest in social metaphysics in recent decades has exploded and questions about the status and ambitions of social metaphysics are now taking centre stage. This workshop aims to consolidate this current methodological turn by hosting a two-day event where participants can discuss questions like the following. How do the traditional questions about the aims and methods of metaphysics apply to debates in social metaphysics? Are traditional distinctions between metaphysical realism\, deflationism\, and pragmatism useful for making sense of the status of properties\, entities\, or kinds that are socially constructed? How do the projects of social metaphysics relate to inquiries into the nature of social reality that have been traditionally conducted within social science and social theory (e.g. feminist theory\, sociology\, economics\, etc.)? How should social metaphysicians understand the epistemology of social metaphysics\, especially given the widespread view that ordinary thinking about the nature of social reality has been systematically distorted by ideology? What role should moral and political values play in social metaphysics? In what ways might embracing normative constraints on social metaphysical theorising impact the status or epistemology of the resulting theories? \nWorkshop Programme \nDay 1 \n10.00 – 10.30 Coffee and Welcome \n10.30 – 12.00 Elanor Taylor (Johns Hopkins) ‘Explanatory Metametaphysics’ \n12.00 – 13.30 Lunch \n13.30 – 15.00 Naomi Thompson (Bristol) ‘Social Construction as Social Explanation’ \n15.00 – 15.30 Coffee \n15.30 – 17.00 Esa Díaz-León (Barcelona) ‘Social Constructionism Revisited’ \n18.30 Speaker Dinner \nDay 2 \n10.00 – 10.30 Coffee \n10.30 – 12.00 Asya Passinsky (Central European University) ‘Pluralism and Amelioration’ \n12.00 – 13.30 Lunch \n13.30 – 15.00 Matthew J. Cull (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Feminist Deflationism: Metametaphysics\, Subject Matter\, and Method’ \n15.00 – 15.30 Coffee \n15.30 – 17.00 Kevin Richardson (Duke) ‘Enemies to Lovers: the Metaphysician and the Pragmatist’ \n This event is affiliated with the Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Research Group \nOrganiser: Jade Fletcher (jef1@st-andrews.ac.uk)
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/social-metametaphysics-workshop/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104\, University of St Andrews\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250620
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
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SUMMARY:Metaphysical Indeterminacy Conference
DESCRIPTION:Event Description\nMight reality itself be indeterminate? And if so\, how can we coherently theorise about it? This conference seeks to bring together researchers interested in this emerging topic and be an occasion to widen and deepen the debate around it. To reflect the interdisciplinary interest in this topic\, the conference will feature contributions from traditional metaphysics\, social metaphysics\, and science-informed metaphysics.  \nConference program \nThe conference booklet is available here. \nDay 1\n9.45-10 Welcome (and coffee) \n10.10-10.30 Introductory remarks  \n10.30-11.30 Maureen Donnelly: Distinguishing between Vague and Precise Objects \n11.30-11.45 quick break \n11.45-12.45 Aaron Cotnoir: Close Enough to Touch: How to Approximate Boundaries for Ordinary Objects \n12.45-14.15 lunch break \n14.15-15.15 King Fung Kelvin Chan: Metaphysical Indeterminacy\, Social Construction\, and Reasonable Pluralism  \n15.15-15.30 quick break \n15.30-16.30 Kevin Richardson: Fear of Social Indeterminacy \nDay 2\n9.15-9.30 coffee/tea \n9.30-10.30 Alessandro Torza: Metaphysical Indeterminacy and Chance \n10.30-10.45 Quick break \n10.45-11.45 Kamil Furman: Relational Metaphysical Indeterminacy: A New Account for Lowe’s Scenario Against Evans’ Proof \n11.45-12 Quick break \n12-13 George Darby: ‘Quantum indeterminacy’ and Metaphysical Methodology \n13-14.30 lunch break \n14.30-15.30 Will Moorfoot: Rich Combinatorics \n15.30-15.45 Quick break \n15.45-16.45 Robert Williams: Inconceivable Indeterminacy \n  \nSponsors: Arché Research Centre\, Analysis\,  Aristotelian Society\, ISOS\, Mind Association\, Scots Philosophical Association \nThis event is affiliated with the Metaphysics and Logic Research Group. \nOrganiser: Giulia Schirripa (gs235@st-andrews.ac.uk)
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-logic-conference-metaphysical-indeterminacy/
LOCATION:School V\, United College\, St Salvator's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250614
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
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SUMMARY:ECT Normativity Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Speakers include: Sophia Dandelet (Cambridge)\, Chris Kelp (Glasgow)\, Richard Pettigrew (Bristol)\, Debbie Roberts (Edinburgh). \n \nVenue: The Philosophy Department\, Room 104\, Edgecliffe\, The Scores\, St Andrews. (With G01 for catering) \n \nTimetable for talks (G01 for catering): \n9:30   – 10:00 tea and coffee \n10:00 – 11:30 Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) \n11:45 – 13:15 Debbie Roberts (Edinburgh) \n13:15 – 14:15 Lunch \n14:15 – 15:45 Chris Kelp (Glasgow) \n15:45 – 16:00 tea and coffee \n16:00 – 17:30 Sophia Dandelet (Cambridge) \nOrganiser: Prof Jessica Brown jab30@st-andrews.ac.uk \nThis free hybrid event is primarily aimed at local St Andrews philosophers who don’t need to register. Any non-local wishing to attend should contact the organiser to check if they can attend/or to get the online teams link. There would be no fees/registration but they would need to make their own arrangements including for meals.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-june-workshop/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104\, University of St Andrews\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250527T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250529T160000
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
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SUMMARY:Crispin Wright Workshop
DESCRIPTION:To register for in person attendance at this workshop\, please click on the following link: \nSelect tickets – Crispin Wright Workshop – St Andrews University – St Mary’s College: T201 – Lecture Room 1 \nWorkshop Programme: \n \nTuesday 27 May — Vagueness \n\n9:15 – 9:30               Coffee and biscuits\n9:30 – 10:30             Robbie Williams (Leeds)\n                                 Verdict Exclusion\n10:45 – 11:45           Bahram Assadian (Leeds)\n                                 Indeterminacy of Reference and De Re Beliefs\n12:00 – 13:00           Diana Raffman (Toronto)\n                                 Sorites and the Power of Co-Reference\n13:00 – 14:00           Lunch\n\n14:00 – 15:00           Patrick Greenough (St Andrews)\n                                 The Paradoxes of Higher-Order Vagueness\n15:15 – 16:15            Roy Cook (Minnesota) – online\n                                 Tolerance and Indeterminacy in Intuitionistic Logic\n16:30 – 17:30            Crispin Wright (Stirling)\n                                 The Forced-March Sorites\, the Transition Problem\, and Williamson against Luminosity\n\n \nWednesday 28 May — ‘Frege’s Conception of Numbers as Objects’ Revisited \n\n9:15 – 9:30                 Coffee and biscuits\n9:30 – 10:30               Michael Potter (Cambridge)\n                                   Incompleteness and Recarving\n10:45 – 11:45             Bruno Jacinto (Lisbon)\n                                   Ordinals and Logicism\n12:00 – 13:00             Robert May (UC Davis) and Rachel Boddy (Pavia)\n                                   Logic vs. Logicism\n13:00 – 14:00             Lunch\n14:00 – 15:00             Agustin Rayo (MIT) – online\n                                   Transcendence and Emptiness\n15:15 – 16:15             William Stirton\n                                   A Neo-Crispinian Attempt to Solve the Julius Caesar Problem \n16:30 – 17:30             Richard K. Heck (Brown) – online\n                                   Frege’s Theorem and the Epistemology of Ordinary Arithmetical Knowledge\n\n \nThursday 29 May — Epistemology \n\n9:15 – 9:30                  Coffee and biscuits\n9:30 – 11:30                Frege’s Conception of Numbers as Objects @40 – Round Table\n                                    Michael Beaney (Aberdeen)\, Marcus Rossberg (UConn)\n11:45 – 12:45              Sven Rosenkranz (Barcelona)\n                                    Cornering the Sceptic (even without Unearned Warrant for Cornerstones?)\n12:45 – 13:45              Lunch\n13:45 – 14:45              Claire Field (Zürich)\n                                    Being Wrong about Logic\n15:00 – 16:00              Paul Boghossian (NYU)\n                                    Minimalism\, Normative Concepts and Normative Realism\n\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/crispin-wright-workshop/
LOCATION:St Mary’s College: T201 – Lecture Room 1
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
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SUMMARY:Hyperintensionality Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop on May 19th will coincide with Shawn Standefer’s (NTU) visit to St Andrews. \n\n10am–11:15am Shawn Standefer: On the Hyperintensionality of Relevant Logics and Some of their Rivals.\n11:30am–12:45pm Andrew Tedder: Subalgebras are Good Models of Topic.\n2:15pm–3:30pm Franscisca Silva (online): Logicality and Invariance of Subject Matter.\n3:45pm–5:00pm Tore Øgaard: subDL is Relevant.\n\nEvent organiser: Greg Restall
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/relevance-and-hyperintensionality-workshop/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104\, University of St Andrews\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250511
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
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SUMMARY:ECT Knowledge and Society workshop
DESCRIPTION:ECT are holding a 1 day workshop on the 9th May. \n \nSpeakers include: Peter Graham (U California Riverside)\, Amiya Hashkes (St Andrews)\, Jesper Kallestrup (Aberdeen)\, Jack Lyons (Glasgow) and Lara Scheibli (St Andrews). \n \nVenue: The Philosophy Department\, Room G03\, Edgecliffe\, The Scores\, St Andrews. (With G01 for catering) \n \nEvent Organiser: Jessica Brown \n \nTimetable (G01 for Catering): \n9:30   – 10:00 tea and coffee \n10:00 – 11:00 Jesper Kallestrup (Aberdeen) \n11:15 – 12:15 Amiya Hashkes (St Andrews) \n12:15 – 13:30 lunch \n13:30 – 14:30 Lara Schiebli (St Andrews) \n14:45 – 15:45 Jack Lyons (Glasgow) \n15:45 – 16:00 tea and coffee \n16:00 – 17:00 Peter Graham (UC Riverside) \nOrganiser: Prof Jessica Brown jab30@st-andrews.ac.uk \nThis free hybrid event is primarily aimed at local St Andrews philosophers who don’t need to register. Any non-local wishing to attend should contact the organiser to check if they can attend/or to get the online teams link. There would be no fees/registration but they would need to make their own arrangements including for meals.  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-1-day-workshop-knowledge-and-society/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241218T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241218T170000
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar:
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-21/2024-12-18/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241217T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241115T140215Z
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SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) - Online
DESCRIPTION:Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression \nAbstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures\, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language – one sees this in feminist work on pornography – or worse\, to ignore pictures altogether when the topic at hand least typically pictorial or typically has a significant pictorial dimension – one sees this in Jason Stanley’s work on propaganda. \nAgainst this linguisticism\, I argue that central and influential forms of oppressive “speech” are in fact pictorial and that to understand how they do their oppressive work\, we must approach pictures as pictures rather than as forms of spoken or written language. In this paper\, I first examine one glaring case of linguisticism\, then say something about what I think is going on here\, and finally briefly examine examples of oppressive pictures and give the outlines of an explanation of how they do their oppressive work. \nPlease note that I will be discussing pictures that glorify and eroticize rape\, and pictures that mock\, shame\, and demean Black persons. I will also mention pictures of lynchings. I will also briefly show some of these pictures\, though not the lynching pictures. I will not leave any pictures up for long because they are triggering or otherwise injurious for many of us. That\, after all\, is part of the point of this paper. I will give warning before I show or mention these pictures.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-13/2024-12-17/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241216T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241216T140000
DTSTAMP:20260601T030553
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SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: No Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-14/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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