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Edgecliffe G03
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Metaphysics Seminar: Talk by Travis Manuel on ” Spacetime and Objects are not in Harmony”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract Spacetime has structure, and objects have structure. A collection of principles, known as harmony principles, posit that the mereologies of the two structures behave...
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Language and Mind Seminar: James Shaw (Pittsburgh) – Kripkean Necessity A Posteriori: Some Doubts
Edgecliffe G03I discuss an unusual technique for learning metaphysical necessities that I call the "Procedure of Imaginative Transfer" and note some ways it complicates Kripke's case...
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Talk by Ethan Landes on “Jargon”.
Edgecliffe G03Abstract This talk will explore the causes, upsides, and drawbacks of adjusting or introducing concepts and language for the purposes of inquiry. While technical concepts...
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Epistemology Seminar: Paolo Savino, “Nonclosure and Scepticism”
Edgecliffe G03The sceptical paradox arises from the tension between three appealing claims: (1) that one cannot know the negation of a sceptical hypothesis, (2) that if...
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Semantics/Arche Logic Group: No Meeting
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Metaphysics Seminar: Talk by Taylor-Grey Miller (Austin) on “Trouble for Reducing Essence”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract Recent work in the theory of essence has focused on whether one can reduce constitutive essence to consequential essence. Many have followed Fine and...
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Language and Mind Seminar: Talk by J.P. Grodniewicz: “All the states of understanding”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract: What is it to understand a linguistic utterance? According to the current orthodoxy in the philosophy of language, it is to be in a...