Metaphysics Seminar Frederik Andersen (University of St Andrews)
Title: Logical Akrasia Abstract: The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it introduces the concept logical akrasia (by analogy to epistemic akrasia). Second, it discusses...
Title: Logical Akrasia Abstract: The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it introduces the concept logical akrasia (by analogy to epistemic akrasia). Second, it discusses...
Breckenridge & Magidor: 'Arbitrary Reference'
Colin Troesken will lead a discussion of Anne Eaton's paper ‘A Lady on the Street but a Freak in the Bed’: On the Distinction Between Erotic...
Abstract: In this talk I examine, and rebut, Goldberg’s (2020) arguments in favour of a conversational norm that would defeasibly entitle linguistic agents to presume...
Abstract: In this paper, I provide an account of the epistemic significance of the phenomenon of “being known” and the relationship it has to reparations...
Title: Intensional Subject-Matter in Subsystems of Analytic Implication Abstract: Although one tends to think of truth or falsity as the predominant semantic feature with which...
Pain, Painfulness, and Evaluation In this talk, I survey the increasingly rich, contemporary debate about the nature of pain and its unpleasantness. Along the way,...
Abstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of extractivist epistemology as a way to think through the effect of...