10 events found.
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Metaphysics Seminar Aaron Cotnoir (University of St Andrews)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomTitle: Partial identity and mereotopology Abstract: How should we think about the ways in which identity and parthood interact? One important line of thought comes...
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Language & Mind Seminar: Lixiao Lin (St Andrews)
Aesthetic assertion, aesthetic knowledge, and acquaintance inference Simple aesthetic sentences normally give rise to an acquaintance inference (AI), inferences that the speaker has first-hand knowledge...
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Epistemology Seminar: Jessica Brown “Group Evidence”
Abstract: We routinely ascribe belief and knowledge to groups, saying such things as that the government knew that the new strain of covid was especially transmissible,...
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Metaphysics Seminar Matthew Green (University of St Andrews)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomTitle: Relevance in the Logic of Imagination Abstract: Reality-oriented mental simulation is a kind of imagination. The working assumption is that, when trying to determine...
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Language & Mind Seminar: David Papineau (KCL)
The Causal Argument Against Representationalism The central argument against perceptual representationalism in my recent The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience was that representational states aren’t causally efficacious in the way...
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Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Emilia Wilson Dangerous Speech, Free Speech and Cancel Culture
Abstract: Toxic speech inflicts individual and group harm, damaging the social fabric upon which we all depend. To understand and combat the harms of toxic...
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Epistemology Seminar: Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) “Asking the right moral questions”
Abstract: What is it to engage in moral inquiry? The received wisdom is that it is to answer moral questions – that is, questions about...