Metaphysics Seminar Lorraine Keller (Saint Joseph’s University)
Title: The Access Problem for Act-type Theories of Propositions Abstract: Recent work on propositions has seen the rise of act-type theories, according to which propositions...
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A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United Kingdom
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Language & Mind Seminar: Nick Allen (St Andrews)
Pluralist Meta-ethical Constructivism and Feminist Social Construction: Meta-ethical Constructivism holds that ethics is grounded upon shared values between agents in a society. In this sense...
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Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Jade Fletcher
Jade Fletcher will be giving a presentation titled 'Social Structures, Ideology and Bad Sex' at 4-6pm Wednesday. If you would like to attend please email...
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Epistemology Seminar: Timothy Williamson (Oxford) “Knowledge by sight and knowledge by proof”
Abstract: Knowledge by sight is a standard paradigm of a posteriori knowledge. Knowledge by mathematical proof is a standard paradigm of a priori knowledge. However,...
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Metaphysics Seminar Francesca Poggiolesi (Univeristy of Paris)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomTitle: Explanatory (or Grounding) Proofs: Philosophical Framework, Core Ideas, Results Abstract: When it comes to the question of what proofs serve for, since the antiquity two possible answers...
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Language & Mind Seminar: Jessica Keiser (Leeds)
Linguistic Conventions and Language Change: I argue that data about language change casts doubt on the following two theses of the Lewisian metasemantic picture: that...
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Metaphysics Seminar Francisca Silva (University of St Andrews)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomTitle: Sets as fusions of materially-equivalent rigid embodiments Abstract: Albeit having some initial plausibility, most philosophers today would reject the thesis that members of sets...
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