Abstract I will consider two views: metaphysical foundationalism (there are fundamental entities) and metaphysical infinitism (there are infinite chains of ontological dependence). I will talk...
Next Tuesday (April 16th) Derek Ball will discuss Jennifer Saul’s paper ‘Politically Significant Terms and the Philosophy of Language’ http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199855469.001.0001/acprof-9780199855469-chapter-9 As usual, the seminar...
Abstract This talk applies the techniques of conceptual engineering to ‘beauty’ and ‘knowledge’. I show how we can assess these concepts and propose improvements. The...
I compare and contrast Tyler Burge’s account of epistemic warrant (“Perceptual Entitlement” 2003, “Entitlement: The Empirical Basis of Epistemic Warrant” 2019), focusing on perceptual entitlement,...
Savvas will lead the discussion on Thomas Kroedel’s paper ‘Dualist Mental Causation and the Exclusion Problem’. The paper can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nous.12028 As usual,...
Katherine Hawley will lead a discussion of Fabienne Peter's 'Epistemology of Deliberative Democracy' from the Companion to Applied Philosophy (2016).