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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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DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T130000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250715T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250715T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250714T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250714T140000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
CREATED:20250521T211018Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250709T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
CREATED:20250701T112024Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250708T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250708T140000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
CREATED:20250702T124929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250702T124929Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250703T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250703T120000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
CREATED:20240530T092754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T073909Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250630T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250630T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250630T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250630T110000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
CREATED:20240530T083614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T080039Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250626T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250626T143000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
CREATED:20250422T082717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250422T083600Z
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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:20260601T084321
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250620
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250614
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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:20260601T084321
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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:20260601T084321
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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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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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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:20260601T084321
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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:20260601T084321
CREATED:20240912T141746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T144751Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241216T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241216T110000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
CREATED:20240930T082654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240930T082655Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Strode's Consequentiae
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-5-2/2024-12-16/
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:20241213T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241213T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241212T221120Z
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SUMMARY:All Arché Research Day (Winter 2024)
DESCRIPTION:This Friday\, the Arché term wraps up with another all-day all-Arché get-together\, featuring research presentations from Sabina Domínguez Parrado\, Lara Scheibli\, Stephen Read\, and Franz Berto\, and five-minute lightning talks from brave presenters including Jessica Brown\, Simon Prosser\, Christopher Masterman\, and more. \nWe’ll be in G03 from 9:30am. \n9:45: Stephen Read (Insolubles in Fourteenth-Century Logic\, or: What Have I Been Doing For The Last Seven Years) \n10:45: Coffee Break \n11:15: Lightning Talks: Simon Prosser (Mental Hypertime)\, Jessica Brown (Defending Epistemology)\, Sophie Nagler (Two logicians walk into a bar… A talk of misunderstandings)\, … \n11:45: Sabina Domínguez Parrado (The Semantic Motivation for Logical Pluralism) \n1:00: Lunch Break \n2:00: Franz Berto (From the Gospel According to David Lewis: Counterfactuals\, §3.2 — and Beyond) \n3:00: Coffee Break \n3:15: Lightning Talks: Christopher Masterman (Explaining Composition)\, Greg Restall (What Can We Mean?)\, … \n3:45: Lara Scheibli (Why Professors Should Not Sleep With Their Students – The Epistemology of Consent and Professor-Student Sex) \nAll of the presentations are in-person. The Teams link is provided for Arché Members who are not able to attend in person.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/all-arche-research-day-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T120000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
CREATED:20241009T132357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241029T111542Z
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SUMMARY:Arché Staff/Student Organisational Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Every semester\, we hold an all-of-Arché Staff/Student organisational meeting for everyone to attend. Tea/Coffee will be available. Agenda TBC
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-seminar-5-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241015T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241015T140000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
CREATED:20241009T130210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T130244Z
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SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar: Brice Bantegnie
DESCRIPTION:Title: It’s personal and it’s fine \nAbstract: Believing is something that one does\, or so one might say. Seeing as well. Detecting the edges of objects is not. Believing is a personal state. Seeing as well. Detecting is a sub-personal event or process. The personal/sub-personal distinction is intuitive. In recent papers\, some have argued that it is problematic. I argue that it is not. Two criticisms are that it is not principled (cf. Mason Westfall) and that it potentially stifles the work of cognitive scientists by misdescribing their practices (cf. Robert Rupert.) The personal/sub-personal distinction\, as applied to states\, is a special case of a distinction between the state something is in and the states its parts are in. Further commitments are not necessary and only come down the line. As a consequence\, one can both take it that there is such a distinction in cognitive science and that it puts no external constraint on the activity of cognitive scientists
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-34-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240711T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240711T170000
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SUMMARY:FPST Reading Group - Midnight Sun
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to join us on a cover-to-cover reading of Meyer’s 2020 Midnight Sun. The meeting will be online. We will discuss chapters 5-10. Still\, even if you don’t manage to catch up on the reading\, you’re still more than welcome to show up! If you want to sign up get in touch with the organisers: Naomi Sutton Kachani (ns234@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Sebastián Stuart Betanzos (sasb1@st-andrews.ac.uk). \nFull invite: You are cordially invited to join us on a cover-to-cover reading of Meyer’s 2020 Midnight Sun. This is the much-anticipated reimagining of Twilight (2005)\, by the same author. In this book\, Meyer retells the early story of the meeting between Bella Swan and Edward Cullen through a shift from the former’s limited human gaze to the latter’s supernatural psychic gaze. This switch in narration radically widens the perspectival scope of the story by placing us within the thoughts of a mind with unmediated access to all Other minds around him\, except that of Swan. What implications does this shift have for how we interpret the moral\, aesthetic\, and cultural value of the Twilight saga as a whole?
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-reading-group-midnight-sun/
LOCATION:Online via Teams
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory,Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240704T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240704T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T133156Z
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SUMMARY:Unity Pre-Reading: Quasi-Analysis II
DESCRIPTION:Mormann\, Thomas (2009). New Work for Carnap’s Quasi-Analysis. Journal of Philosophical Logic 38 (3):249-282.\nhttps://philpapers.org/rec/MORNWF-2 \nALT:\nDecock\, Lieven & Douven\, Igor (2011). Similarity After Goodman. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 2 (1):61-75.\nhttps://philpapers.org/rec/DECSAG
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-pre-reading-quasi-analysis-2/
LOCATION:Arché Seminar Room\, 17-19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY169AL
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240703T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240703T170000
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Greg Restall (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: What do we mean? Semantics\, Practices and Pluralism\n \nAbstract: In this informal talk\, I will revisit some longstanding issues in philosophical logic in the light of some contemporary developments. \n \nThe longstanding issues? (1) Michael Dummett’s challenge in The Logical Basis of Metaphysics to the effect that to get anywhere in fundamental issues of metaphysics we would do well to attend to the fundamental commitments of our theory of meaning—and that those concerns lead to the conclusion that we can find common ground in intuitionistic logic\, not classical logic. (2) The issue of pluralism (or monism) about logical consequence. Contemporary work in logic is filled with a range of different (and seemingly opposed) accounts of what follows from what. Many different kinds of logical pluralism have arisen to attempt to make sense of the diversity of logical analyses\, and just as many defences of logical monism have been offered.\n \nThe contemporary developments? The rise of dependent type theory in computer science and the consequent rise of proof assistants in the formalisation of mathematics. Different proof assistants (Agda\, Idris\, Lean\, Isabelle\, Coq) make different choices in the formal representation of mathematical reasoning\, but the predominant choice of these proof assistants is to represent proofs constructively\, in what amounts to intuitionistic logic and not classical logic. Proof assistants are steadily gaining ground in the mathematical community—mathematicians use these tools as conversation partners in the development of mathematical proofs\, and many of these conversation partners have intuitionistic scruples. \n \nI will reexamine Dummett’s appeal to revisit fundamental commitments in our theory of meaning\, and the challenge of logical pluralism\, given the example of the use of proof assistants in mathematical reasoning. We will see that paying attention to different aspects of our reasoning practices can clarify what is at stake in debates over the use of this or that logic\, or about the propriety of some semantic principle. In the end\, I hope to show that—as Dummett argued—it is worthwhile to spend some time attending to the concepts we use in our theorising\, just as the astronomer must take care of her telescopes if she wants to see clearly and see far\, and understand the power and limits of her tools. However\, I will also show that taking Dummett’s advice does not mean that we must accept his restrictive conclusion about the impropriety of classical reasoning. Classical reasoning can be vindicated\, but at some cost.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-20/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240702T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240702T170000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED FPST Seminar - Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Respect\, Religion\, and Feminism: Political Liberalism as Feminist Liberalism?\nAbstract: This chapter considers whether political liberalism\, specifically\, can be used for feminist ends. There is significant disagreement among feminists and liberals about the compatibility between their two doctrines. Political liberalism is vulnerable to particular criticism from feminists\, who argue that its restricted form of equality is insufficient. In contrast\, Lori Watson and Christie Hartley argue that political liberalism can and must be feminist. This chapter raises three areas of disagreement with Watson and Hartley’s incisive account of feminist political liberalism. First\, the chapter argues that an appeal to a comprehensive doctrine can be compatible with respecting others\, if that appeal is to the value of equality. Second\, the chapter takes issue with Watson and Hartley’s defence of religious exemptions to equality law. Third\, the chapter argues that political liberalism can be compatible with feminism\, but that it is not itself adequately feminist. The chapter concludes that political liberalism is not enough for feminists.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-12-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240702T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240702T140000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240628T080215Z
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SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar: Derek Ball (University of St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: “Immanent Interpretation”\nBryan Pickel and Derek Ball\n\nAbstract: Famous arguments purport to show that all\, or a substantial fragment\, of language is indeterminate in meaning.  Quine and Davidson motivated indeterminacy arguments by attending to the possibility of different translations of a foreign language and to the possibility of differing uses of homophonic expressions among speakers of the same language; more contemporary versions focus on the interpretation of context-sensitive expressions such as quantifier domain restrictions (Heck\, Buchanan).  We show that these arguments fail because they ignore evidence that is available to interpreters – evidence that arises from the interpreters themselves as language users.  But our aim is not merely to rebut indeterminacy arguments.  We construct a research strategy for interpreters to meet the concerns of the proponents of indeterminacy arguments.  The strategy is available to interpreters in a wide range of cases\, but (time permitting) we will also discuss cases (such as the interpretation of AI\, or of non-human animals) in which it might fail.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-40/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240628T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240628T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T084321
CREATED:20240318T124733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240620T074754Z
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SUMMARY:All Arché Research Day
DESCRIPTION:The All Arché Research Day is a whole-of-Arché get-together. It’s an opportunity to foster interaction between research streams\, and to celebrate achievements from the year 2023-2024. \nSession 1: 10am-11am (Chair: Jessica Brown) \nTalk 1 Katharina Bernhard: Epistemic Projection and Inductive Risk \nCoffee Break: 11am-11:30am \nSession 2: 11:30am-1pm (Chair: Francesco Berto) \nLightning talks: 11:30am-12noon\n(Jessica Brown\, Greg Restall\, Cecily Whiteley) \nTalk 2: 12noon-1:00pm\nViviane Fairbank: Is Logic Objective? \nLunch Break: 1:00pm-2:00pm (Catered) \nSession 3: 2:00pm-3:00pm (Chair: Aaron Cotnoir) \nTalk 3: Hoaxu Wang: On the Qualification of Being—A Quiddity in the Context of Russellian Monism \nCoffee Break: 3:00pm-3:30pm \nSession 4: 3:30pm-5:00pm (Chair: Jade Fletcher) \nLightning talks: 3:30pm-4:00pm\n(Aaron Cotnoir\, Francesco Berto\, …) \nTalk 4: 4:00pm-5:00pm\nEmma Holmes: The Philosophy of Diets \nAfter Drinks at Brewdog
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/all-arche-research-day/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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