Breaking Down the Barriers: Applied Conceptual Engineering (ACE)
A virtual Conference - by ZoomDESCRIPTION Conceptual engineering focuses on how best to assess and improve our conceptual apparatuses. In less than half a decade, it has become a...
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Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Emmalon Davis (UMich) “Challenging the Pursuit of Novelty”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomAbstract: Novelty—understood as the value of saying something new—appears to be a good-making feature of a philosophical contribution. Beyond this, however, novelty functions as a marker...
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomTITLE: Fundamentality Without Favouritism ABSTRACT: According to a widely endorsed conception of fundamentality, the fundamental is characterized in terms of a certain privileged relation or...
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Ásta (SFSU): ” What Are Sex and Gender and What Do We Want Them to Be?”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United Kingdomhttps://youtu.be/DB_KBwVLwLg ABSTRACT. — We are living in times where there is considerable debate over what sex and gender are and who gets to be of what...
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Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Rima Basu (CMC) “Normative Expectations”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomAbstract: In supplementing the familiar ways that our interpersonal relationships are morally fraught, recent work in epistemology on doxastic wronging has highlighted how these relationships...
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Andrea Oliani (University of St. Andrews)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomTITLE: Against Conservative Ontology ABSTRACT: In his recent book Objects: Nothing Out of the Ordinary (2015), Dan Z. Korman argues in favour of conservatism in metaphysics, that is,...
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Hasok Chang (Cambridge): “Re-engineering Natural Kinds”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomABSTRACT. — I propose to re-conceive the debate on natural kinds from the perspective of conceptual engineering. I take ‘natural’ kinds in a broadly naturalist way,...
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Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Renee Bolinger (Princeton) “Are We Entitled to Be Believed?”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomAbstract: Discussions in a variety of contexts (including at least epistemic injustice, moral encroachment, epistemic obligations of friendship) sometimes assume that speakers have a right...
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Kathrin Koslicki (Université de Neuchâtel)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomTITLE: Artifacts and the Limits of Human Creative Intentions ABSTRACT: According to Amie Thomasson’s author-intention-based account of artifacts, an artifact of kind K is essentially...
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Genoveva Martí (Barcelona): “How Flexible (or Tolerant) Is Too Flexible (or Tolerant)?”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United KingdomJoint work w/ Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) ABSTRACT. — We will discuss two different phenomena of language usage that we have characterized in past...