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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250619
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250622
DTSTAMP:20260602T004349
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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
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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:20260602T004349
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250511
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241218T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241218T170000
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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:20260602T004349
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241115T140215Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241216T140000
DTSTAMP:20260602T004349
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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:20260602T004349
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:20260602T004349
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T120000
DTSTAMP:20260602T004349
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241015T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241015T140000
DTSTAMP:20260602T004349
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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
DTSTAMP:20260602T004349
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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis) \nShould have Known and Epistemically Appropriate Belief\nSometimes people don’t know things they should have known. For instance\, cardiologists should know about recent major developments that bear on their practice; if they don’t know\, they should have. Can what a person should have known matter to what they’re epistemically appropriate to believe? Call the view that it can “should-have-known impurism.” If the cardiologist believes the usual treatment for a certain type of heart disease is best but should have known that an alternative treatment outperformed it in a recent large study\, it seems the cardiologist isn’t believing as she should. In this paper\, I dig into the reasoning behind or suggested by intuitions like this. Once we locate this reasoning\, we can probe its structure\, assess its quality\, and explore variations of it\, along with its relation to intuitions on the opposing “purist” side. In the end\, I argue that we can capture what the impurist gets right without accepting impurism. This is important because\, as I argue\, impurism faces serious problems.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-7-8/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240627T120000
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SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-seminar-3-3/2024-06-27/
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
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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\, and the session will be around 60 minutes. The plan is to discuss the book’s first five chapters\, as well as set up a plan and dates for our next sessions. If you want to sing 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-readign-group-midnight-sun/
LOCATION:Online via Teams
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory,Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Modality: With or Without Possible Worlds?
DESCRIPTION:The University of St Andrews Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic\, Language\, Metaphysics and Epistemology will be hosting a workshop on Modality\, With or Without Possible Worlds?\n\n \nDESCRIPTION: The purpose of the workshop is to bring together and promote research in the area of metaphysics of modality\, with a specific focus on two broad themes: (i) the challenges associated with exclusively employing possible worlds to clarify our modal discourse about metaphysical necessity and possibility\, among other metaphysical concepts; and (ii) alternative approaches that shed light on such discourse without relying on the concept of a possible world.\n \nDATE AND VENUE: 7 June 2024\, Online on Teams\n \nSPEAKERS: Vera Hoffman-Kolss (University of Bern)\, Barbara Vetter (Freie Universität Berlin)\, Jennifer Wang (Simon Fraser University)\, Mark Jago (University of Nottingham)\, Takashi Tagisawa (California State University)\, and John Divers (Trinity College Dublin).\n\n \n\nREGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/Cnh4zpbyFXPzhg7v8\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nPROVISIONAL SCHEDULE (Note: All times are in British Summer Time):\nEvery time slot includes: the main talk (40 mins)\, and Q&A (20 mins).\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n9:55 – 10:00 Preliminary Remarks \n10:00 – 11:00 Barbara Vetter (Freie Universität Berlin) \n11:00 – 11:15 Break \n11:15 – 12:15 Mark Jago (University of Nottingham) \n12:15 – 12:30 Break \n12:30 – 13:30 Jennifer Wang (Simon Fraser University) \n13:30 – 14:30 Break \n14:30 – 15:30 John Divers (Trinity College Dublin) \n15:30 – 15:45 Break \n15:45 – 16:45 Vera Hoffman-Kolss (University of Bern) \n16:45 – 17:00 Break \n\n17:00 – 18:00 Takashi Yagisawa (California State University) \n\n \n \nTITLES AND ABSTRACTS: \n \n\nTitle: Modal epistemology without worlds: the case of axiom T (Barbara Vetter)\n \nAbstract: Epistemologists of modality often assume that some knowledge of possibility is easy: knowledge by inference from actuality\, via axiom T of modal logic. What is true in this world must be true at some world\, after all; what could be easier? Inference by axiom T takes centre stage in similarity based modal epistemologies like that of Sonia Roca Royes\, but it is generally assumed to be a form of easy modal knowledge. In this talk\, I argue that the role of axiom T in a realistic modal epistemology has been overstated. The case of axiom T also serves as a case study for a general caveat not to project to much of our (modal) logic into a realistic (modal) epistemology.\n\n \n\n\nTitle: Knowing What it Is (Mark Jago) \nAbstract: Essentialists understand modal properties in terms of the essences of things. Given this view\, it is natural to think that our knowledge of modality ultimately derives from our knowledge of the essences of things. Is that view plausible? Do we genuinely have knowledge of the essences of things\, in a form substantial enough to ground our modal knowledge? The more we pack into the notion of essence to allow it to underpin modal properties\, the harder it is to claim genuine knowledge. I will argue that realists about essence of a certain kind can have the best of both worlds. They can co-opt a conventionalist explanation of our knowledge of essence\, but against the background of a fully realist notion of essence. \n\n\n\n \n\nTitle: The Explanatory Grounds of De Re Modal Truths (Jennifer Wang)\n\nAbstract: In Naming and Necessity\, Kripke makes a forceful case for the actualist against the so-called “problem of transworld identification”. If the goal is to be able to use possible worlds semantics\, then I think that his response is entirely correct. But if the goal is to provide an explanation of de re modal truths\, then the actualist should reject transworld identity. In this paper\, I argue that the actualist who wants to use possible worlds to explain facts such as “Oscar could have been a movie star” should adopt a purely qualitative conception of possible worlds. Perhaps more surprisingly\, they should combine this with a counterpart-theoretic treatment of de re modality. I will argue that this combination is consistent with actualist motivations\, and with Kripke’s views in particular.\n\n\n \n\nTitle: Modality\, With or Without Possible Worlds? A Quinean Perspective (John Divers)\nAbstract: We may proceed in the philosophy of modality with\, or without\, deploying the device of quantification over possible worlds. How we think of the advantages and disadvantages brought by the respective approaches will be determined for the most part on whether we are presupposing some form of modal realism. Here\, I will address the matter from a modal anti-realist and – more specifically – Quinean perspective\n\n\n \n\nTitle: Counterpossibles\, Causal Exclusion\, and Impossible Worlds (Vera Hoffman-Kolss)\nAbstract: In this paper\, I argue that counterpossible conditionals\, whose truth conditions are formulated in terms of impossible worlds\, can shed new light on the problem of causal exclusion. According to the interventionist version of this problem\, higher-level (e.g.\, mental) properties described by an interventionist causal model are causally pre-empted by the lower-level properties upon which they supervene\, because it is metaphysically impossible to intervene on the higher-level properties without changing at least some of the lower-level properties (which then do all the causal work). Recent debate has shown\, however\, that there are several reasons to allow for counterpossible interventions as well. But once counterpossible interventions are allowed in certain metaphysical contexts\, there is no good reason to ban them from causal exclusion contexts. I argue that this paves the way for a new approach to the causal exclusion problem. The autonomy of higher-level properties can be vindicated by showing that higher-level properties and lower-level properties enter into different counterpossible dependence relations. These counterpossible dependence relations can in turn be interpreted in terms of impossible worlds.\n \nTitle: Ontology of Some Philosophy (Takashi Yagisawa)\n\nAbstract: When philosophers discuss philosophical views\, theories\, or arguments\, their discussion is often not metaphysically innocent. Given certain substantial but widely accepted assumptions concerning relativization of truth\, the worlds framework\, and understanding ontological issues in terms of domains of discourse (see Three Insights below)\, it can be argued that the extent of ontological involvement of some philosophical discussion is considerable. In particular\, philosophical discussion concerning modal metaphysics frequently makes the discussants incur non-trivial ontological commitments.\n\nThree Insights:\n(1 )It is useful to relativize the notion of truth for many philosophical purposes; a sentence is true or false at a truth-relativizer.\n(2) The framework of worlds\, including both possible worlds and impossible worlds\, gives us truth-relativizers for the purposes of explicating the truth conditions of many important kinds of sentences\, in particular\, counterfactual conditional sentences.\n(3) Ontological matters should be understood as matters pertaining to the domain of discourse associated with quantification.\n\nSupposition-Based Argument: “You assert P. Suppose you are right and P is true. Then Q follows. But Q is false. So\, P is false and you are not right”.\n\nClaim: Three insights + Supposition-Based Argument ⇨ a potentially endless sequence of ever-expanding ontological commitments.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/workshop-on-modality-with-or-without-possible-worlds/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:FPST x CEPPA - Sophie Grace Chappell 'Trans figured' book launch.
DESCRIPTION:Sophie Grace Chappell will present her new book Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World – followed by bubbles to celebrate!
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-x-ceppa-sophie-grace-chappell-trans-figured-book-launch/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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SUMMARY:Metaphysical Explanation Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The University of St Andrews Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic\, Language\, Metaphysics and Epistemology will be hosting a workshop on Metaphysical Explanation.\n \nDescription: The purpose of the workshop is to bring together and promote research in the nature of metaphysical explanation\, exploring what it is and how it works. In addition\, the workshop seeks to explore the applications of metaphysical explanation to issues in metaphysics and related issues in analytic philosophy.\n \nSpeakers: Naomi Thompson (University of Bristol)\, Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto)\, Boris Kment (Princeton University)\, and Ross Cameron (University of Virginia).\n \nDATE AND VENUE: 30 May 2024\, Online on Teams.\n \nREGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/JoSwMCx1edkzPW7N9\n \nPROVISIONAL SCHEDULE (Note: All times are in British Summer Time):\nEvery time slot includes: the main talk (45 mins)\, a commentary and reply (15 mins) and Q&A (15 mins).\n\n \n\n11:55 – 12:00 Preliminary Remarks \n12:00 – 13:15 Naomi Thompson: “Social Metaphysical Explanation”; Commentator: Jade Fletcher \n13:15 – 13:30 Break \n13:30 – 14:45 Boris Kment: “Ground and Paradox”; Commentator: Giulia Schirripa \n14:45 – 15:00 Break \n15:00 – 16:15 Ross Cameron: “Explanation and Plenitude in Non-Well-Founded Set Theories”; Commentator: Sabina Dominguez Parrado \n16:15 – 16:30 Break \n16:30 – 17:45 Jessica Wilson: “Metaphysical Skepticism\, Relativized Metaphysical Modality\, and Moderate Modal Naturalism”; Commentator: Luca Alberto Rappuoli \n\n\n \nTITLES AND ABSTRACTS\n\n \nTitle: Social Metaphysical Explanation (Naomi Thompson)\nAbstract: This paper argues that grounding and metaphysical explanation as they are ordinarily conceived are ill-suited to modelling the social world. Social facts are neither necessitated nor generated by their full grounds\, and there are good reasons to think of social metaphysical explanations as non-factive. Where grounding and metaphysical explanation are generally taken to form strict partial orders\, social metaphysical explanations are plausibly holistic. Social metaphysical explanation occurs in a context\, and it requires that in that context\, a social fact be represented as being determined on the basis of further facts\, and that concepts corresponding to social kinds featuring in the social fact to be explained are salient in that context\n\n \n\n\nTitle: Ground and Paradox (Boris Kment)\nAbstract: At the beginning of the 20th century\, Betrand Russell discovered a cluster of paradoxes that showed that certain initially very appealing principles of plenitude and individuation for sets\, properties\, and propositions are classically inconsistent. The search for a plausible\, unified\, and independently motivated solution has met with only limited success. I argue that recent ideas in the theory of grounding yield a new and promising approach. A ground-theoretic analysis of the Russellian paradoxes shows that they rest on assumptions that should be rejected because they violate a plausible non-circularity constraint on grounding. In some of the paradoxes\, the problematic assumption is a principle of plenitude. These paradoxes should be resolved by restrictions on our ontology. In the remaining paradoxes\, the assumption to be abandoned is an instance of the Law of Excluded Middle. The failure of Excluded Middle reflects the fact that reality is incomplete\, in the sense that some questions cannot be answered. We can settle such questions only by ruling out every possible answer.\n\n \n\n\nTitle: Explanation and Plenitude in Non-Well-Founded Set Theories (Ross Cameron)\nAbstract: Non-well-founded set theories allow set-theoretic exotica that standard ZFC will not allow\, such as a set that has itself as its sole member. We can distinguish plenitudinous non-well-founded set theories\, such as Boffa set theory\, that allow infinitely many such sets\, from restrictive theories\, such as Finsler-Aczel or AFA\, that allow exactly one. Plenitudinous non-well-founded set theories face a puzzle: nothing seems to explain the identity or distinctness of various of the sets they countenance. In this paper I aim to sharpen this puzzle\, make clear who it does and does not apply to and\, ultimately\, to argue in favor of a plenitudinous theory like Boffa.\n\n\n \n\nTitle: Metaphysical Skepticism\, Relativized Metaphysical Modality\, and Moderate Modal Naturalism (Jessica Wilson)\nAbstract: One route to skepticism about metaphysics (drawing on Rosen 2006\, Chalmers 2009\, Clarke-Doane 2019) proceeds by observing the following tension. On the one hand\, metaphysical claims are supposed to be metaphysically necessary; for example\, if Platonic universals are the metaphysical basis for resemblance between objects\, then this is supposed to be necessarily so. But on the other hand\, the operative modal epistemologies seem to offer support for the possibility of incompatible metaphysical claims; for example\, it seems conceivable both that Platonic universals might be the basis for resemblance between objects\, and also conceivable that tropes might be such a basis. Here I consider two strategies of response. The first—resistance—maintains that a better modal epistemology\, based in abduction (IBE) as opposed to conceiving and the like\, might justify one metaphysical claim over others (per Biggs and Wilson 2018\, 2020). The second strategy — accommodation — appeals to Relativized Metaphysical Modality\, or RMM (Murray and Wilson 2012; Hellie\, Murray\, and Wilson 2020)\, according to which what is possible or necessary may depend on facts about how the world actually is. RMM makes room for just one of a set of competing metaphysical claims to be true and hence metaphysically necessary\, while at the same time explaining intuitions that competing metaphysical claims are possible\, as reflecting (mere) speculative consideration of what would be possible or necessary against the backdrop assumption that a different world is actual. This strategy can be seen as expanding the application of Kripke’s notion of necessary a posteriori truths beyond the standard natural kind expressions to general metaphysical claims.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysical-explanation/
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SUMMARY:The Epistemology of Inquiry
DESCRIPTION:The event is hybrid and open to philosophy faculty and students outside St Andrews. Remote participants can access the teams link by requesting it from Patrick Winther-Larsen (pjwl@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Jessica Brown (jab30@st-andrews.ac.uk). \nSpeakers: \nEndre Begby (Simon Fraser University)\nSanford Goldberg (Northwestern/St Andrews)\nJoshua Habgood-Coote (Leeds)\nChris Kelp (Glasgow)\nJulia Staffel (Colorado)\nElise Woodard (KCL\, London) \nProgramme: \nMay 20th:  \n11:30AM — 1PM: Sanford Goldberg; \n1PM — 2PM: Lunch; \n2PM — 3:30PM: Joshua Habgood-Coote; \n3:30PM — 4PM: afternoon coffee/tea plus biscuits; \n4PM — 5:30PM: Elise Woodard; \nDinner: 6:30 at Forgans \nMay 21st:  \n9:30AM — 11AM: Chris Kelp; \n11AM — 11:30AM: morning tea/coffee; \n11:30AM — 1PM: Julia Staffel; \n1PM — 2PM: lunch; \n2PM — 3:30PM: Endre Begby. \nAbstracts\nEndre Begby. Doxastic and zetetic norms: mutually dependent and equally fundamental \nThe recent resurgence of interest in the epistemology of inquiry has produced a discussion that is generally structured around the following types of questions: (i) granted that in addition to norms governing how we should form our beliefs in light of our evidence (“doxastic norms”) there also exist norms governing what we should do to provide ourselves with evidence in the first place (“zetetic norms”). But are these latter norms properly construed as epistemic norms\, as opposed to belonging to some broader category of prudential norms? (ii) If doxastic norms and zetetic norms are both epistemic norms\, which is more fundamental? Can we derive one set of norms from the other? Or (iii) should we be open to the possibility that they might be mutually irreducible and independent\, so that they might well generate incompatible obligations in context? \nIn this talk\, I offer some reasons to think that this dialectic is misguided. It is true that we sometimes criticize epistemic agents for the inferences they draw from the evidence currently at their disposal. Likewise\, it is true that we sometimes criticize them for their failure to gather more evidence\, where such evidence is there to be had. What doesn’t follow is that we are always (or even typically) invoking distinct norms in articulating these criticisms. \nTo support this claim\, I will present examples suggesting that in a large (and representative) range of cases — spanning science\, policy decisions\, and everyday life –\, what we should believe on our current evidence is importantly indeterminate: in order to settle which hypothesis our current evidence supports we require more evidence\, evidence which we could only gain by engaging in further inquiry. But on the other hand\, we could never know what sort of inquiry we thereby ought to engage in unless we also had a reasonably clear sense of what epistemic possibilities our current evidence leaves open and what it forecloses. I conclude that from the point of view of epistemic normativity\, the doxastic and zetetic perspectives are complementary\, mutually dependent\, and equally fundamental. \nSanford Goldberg. The norms of inquiry and the demands of conversation \nIn this paper I want to revisit Stalnaker’s (1978; 2002) Common Ground (CG) model as a way of thinking about inquiry.  While the CG is standardly used to model information updates in the course of (conversations about) inquiry\, my aim is to show how we can use the CG to model how the norms of inquiry bear on epistemic assessment.  I pursue this aim by developing several ideas regarding the CG.  Among these ideas I highlight the following: (1) there are types of conversation (Green 2017) which are such that participants are properly expected to presuppose certain things throughout the conversation (I call these the conversation’s “normative presuppositions”); (2) some inquiries are such that there is a corresponding conversation-type associated with them (throughout the period of inquiring); (3) for some social (or institutional) roles\, subjects who occupy these roles are properly expected to participate in certain conversations (including some associated with inquiries); (4) assertions made in the context of inquiry answer to an epistemic standard; and (5) assertions that contradict\, or are in tension with\, the conversation’s normative presuppositions are presumptively criticizable.  In this way\, I hope to show that there are types of inquiry for which the CG model enables us to capture our answerability to the norms of inquiry themselves and to the widely-accepted results thereby attained. \nJoshua Habgood-Coote. Bad Questions.  \nThis paper is about questions which are bad as questions\, in the sense that pursuing them will impede progress in inquiry. It seeks to do three things. First\, to gather examples of question critique: criticisms of views based not on their claims or arguments\, but the questions they ask. Second to give an account of the function of questions which sheds light on the varieties of bad question. And thirdly\, to provide us with a sound normative basis on which to undertake question critique.  \nChris Kelp. Inquiry and Epistemic Psychology \nThis paper proposes an account of epistemic psychological attitudes (such as belief\, credences\, suspension\, etc.) according to which they are types of moves in inquiry that have their own constitutive aims. I zoom in on belief and show how the account I developed in Inquiry\, Knowledge\, and Understanding can deal with a range of objections that have been raised in recent literature. The remainder of the paper takes a closer look at an alternative view of the relation between inquiry and epistemic psychology\, developed in recent work by Jane Friedman and provides reason to think that my account compares favourably with Friedman’s. \nJulia Staffel. Are there transitional beliefs? – I think so? \nA question that has gathered much interest in epistemology recently is whether it can ever be rational to keep inquiring into a question once one has adopted a belief that answers it. Friedman (2019) has prominently argued for a negative answer to this question. \nI am interested in a related\, but slightly different question here\, which has not gathered any attention\, but will help us better understand the nature of belief and its relation to inquiry and deliberation: Is it ever rationally permissible to believe something prior to concluding one’s deliberation? My question differs from the more commonly discussed one\, insofar as it asks about the rationality of believing that p before settling on p as the answer to some question Q\, while the commonly discussed one asks about the rationality of continuing to inquire into Q after coming to believe that p is the answer to Q. \nI will argue that it is possible for rational agents to hold beliefs of a certain kind\, which I call transitional beliefs\, prior to settling on an answer to a question. Further\, I will show that many common claims about what beliefs are don’t identify important features of belief itself\, but of attitudes that are held as conclusions of deliberations more generally. \nElise Woodard. How to Change Your Mind \nIf realists are more likely to become anti-realists than vice versa\, is that evidence that anti-realism is true? I argue that the answer is yes. When more people move from view A to B than B to A\, this is defeasible evidence that B is more likely correct than A. This idea\, which I refer to as “Migration as Evidence\,” suggests that widespread changes in belief could be meaningful indicators of truth. This approach has two main benefits. First\, it provides an additional tool for forming opinions on complex and controversial issues in areas like philosophy\, politics\, and religion\, where even experts disagree. Second\, it encourages a culture where changing one’s mind is more openly shared and less socially penalized\, fostering an environment where the pursuit of truth is prioritized over consistency. If correct\, “Migration as Evidence” highlights a valuable yet overlooked source of information when inquiring about complex and contentious issues. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/the-epistemology-of-inquiry/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104\, United College\, St Salvator's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY169AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Proofs\, Rules\, and Meanings
DESCRIPTION:The workshop ‘Proofs\, Rules\, and Meanings’ is set to take place at the University of St Andrews (School V\, United College\, and livestreamed via Microsoft Teams) on 11 and 12 April 2024. It explores the relationship between proofs\, rules\, and meanings through the lens of proof-theoretic semantics. \n \nThis workshop features: \n\nthe contemporary logical and philosophical dimensions of proof-theoretic semantics;\nits historical roots and precursors; and\nits fruitful applications in philosophy\, linguistics\, computer science\, mathematics\, and beyond.\n\n\nRegistration \nThis is a hybrid workshop\, and there are no registration fees. Registration is now closed; if you would like to attend the workshop online\, please email proofs@st-andrews.ac.uk. \n\n\nAbstracts \nFor titles and abstracts\, see here. The schedule is below. \n\n\n\nSchedule  \n\n\nThursday\, 11th April 2024  \n09:30-10:00 – registration\, refreshments\, and welcome \n10:00-10:40 – “λμ: Relating Constructive\, Classical and Substructural Logics\,” Greg Restall (St Andrews) \n10:50-11:50 – “Meaning as Use\, Use as Meaning\,” Sophie Nagler (St Andrews/ILLC Amsterdam) \n11:55-12:35 – “Three Kinds of Logical Expressivism\,” Luca Incurvati (ILLC Amsterdam) \n12:35-13:35 – catered offline lunch (open to all attendees) \n\n\n13:40-14:40 – “Dummett\, Hacking\, and Circularity in Logical Semantics\,” Viviane Fairbank (St Andrews/Stirling) \n14:45-15:25 – “Speech Acts at the Dialogical Roots of Deduction\,” Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam/St Andrews) \n15:45-17:15 – “Logical Metainferentialism” (keynote)\, Bogdan Dicher (Witwatersrand) \n18:30-21:00 – conference dinner at The Bothy (speakers only) \n\n\n  \nFriday\, 12th April 2024 \nfrom 09:30 – refreshments \n10:00-10:40 – “Proof-Theoretic Validity Based on Elimination Rules\,” Peter Schroeder-Heister (Tübingen) \n10:50-11:50 – “Semantic Pollution and the Meaning of Connectives\,” Robin Martinot (Utrecht) \n11:55-12:35 – “‘Proof Theory’ in Medieval Logic\,” Sara Uckelman (Durham) \n12:35-13:35 – catered online lunch (open to all attendees) \n\n\n13:40-14:40 – optional walking tour of St Andrews \n14:45-15:25 – “An Ecumenical View of Proof-Theoretic Semantics\,” Elaine Pimentel (UCL) \n15:40-16:40 – “Bilateral Derivability: How to Implement (Constructive) Notions of Proof and Refutation in a Sequent Calculus\,” Sara Ayhan (Bochum) \n\n\n16:45-17:15 – plenary discussion: Proofs\, rules\, and meanings – quo vaditis? Chair: Stephen Read (St Andrews) \n18:00 – post-workshop drinks (open to all) \n\nAccessibility Information \nThe main venue (School V\, United College\, St Andrews) provides level access\, gender-neutral toilets and a hearing loop. For more information\, see the AccessAble guide and the room details page. The main door is access controlled\, and we will see to having volunteers open the door as needed. \nThere will be a breakout and coffee room\, dedicated as a quiet room\, across the corridor from the main venue. \n\nThe lunch room is the Stewart Room in Younger Hall. This is a two minute walk from the main venue and also has level access via an elevator. For more details\, see the AccessAble guide and the room details page. \nThe Teams call will be enabled for live captions. Online participant video will be visible to offline attendees at all times via an external monitor. \nWe are providing optional name badges\, on which people may also include their pronouns. \n\n\n\nStudent Travel Awards \nThe Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) is offering (limited) student travel awards to attend this ASL-sponsored workshop. The ASL strongly encourages applications from women and members of minority groups. Applicants must be student members of the ASL. Applications must be received by 10th January 2024. For more details\, and to apply\, see: https://aslonline.org/meetings/student-travel-awards/. \nThe Analysis Trust is also offering (limited) student bursaries\, covering up to 50% of the full cost of accommodation and subsistence. Postgraduate students and under-employed recent postgraduates are eligable to apply. Travel costs are not covered by this bursary. Applications must be received by 10th February 2024\, and can be made as part of the general registration process. \n\nPartners \nThe workshop is organised in partnership with the St Andrews Metaphysics and Logic Research Group\, and the St Andrews Medieval Logic Research Group. It is funded by the Arché Research Centre\, the Scots Philosophical Association\, the British Logic Colloquium\, the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL)\, and the Analysis Trust. \nThis event is affiliated with the PTS Network. Participants can join for updates on activities on Proof-Theoretic Semantics here. \n\nBackground \nProof-theoretic semantics is a research programme that aims to determine the meaning of linguistic expressions by analysing their inferential use. It was inspired by general proof theory\, the logical research programme that led to the development of the sequent calculus and natural deduction systems. Proof-theoretic semantics was subsequently given its name by Peter Schroeder-Heister (one of our speakers) in 1987. Since then\, it has become a vibrant research field in philosophical\, mathematical\, computational and linguistic logic. \n\nContact \nIf you have any questions\, get in touch via proofs@st-andrews.ac.uk.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/workshop-proofs-rules-and-meanings/
LOCATION:School V and via MS Teams\, United College\, St Salvator's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group,Metaphysics and Logic group,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: NO SEMINAR
DESCRIPTION:Have a good break and see you in the new year!
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-festive-seminar/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar:
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URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-6/2023-12-14/
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