10 events found.
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Edgecliffe G03
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Conceptual Engineering – moved to Super Special -Thu 19th April -11 am -Edgecliffe G03
Edgecliffe G03I go through Chalmers’ paper Verbal Disputes and propose an alternative that does not rely on Chalmers’ dubious idea of ‘beliefs about meanings’.
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Metaphysics Reading Group: Savaas Ioannou Ontological Commitments: Truthmaking instead of Paraphrases
Edgecliffe G03Abstract: Van Inwagen (1990) paraphrased sentences about macroscopic inanimate objects into sentences that mention only simples in order to show that the truth of these...
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Epistemology Seminar: Jessica Brown: Does Moral Ignorance Excuse?
Edgecliffe G03Many hold that ignorance, whether factual or moral, can excuse wrongdoing. However, recently, some have argued that only factual ignorance, but not moral ignorance, excuses...
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Super Special Seminar: Herman Cappelen Verbal Disputes and conceptual engineering
Edgecliffe G03Abstract: Kevin asked me to talk about Chalmers’ paper on Verbal disputes. So the first part of this talk is in a presentation of Chalmers’...
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Medieval Logic Reading Group: no meeting
Arché Seminar Room 17-19 College Street, St Andrews -
Arché Logic and Semantics Seminar: no meeting.
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Conceptual Engineering Herman Cappelen Conceptual Engineering: The Master Argument
Edgecliffe G03This outlines what I take to be the central argument for the importance of conceptual engineering.
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Metaphysics Reading Group: Martin Lipman
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