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Abstract 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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I 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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Abstract 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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The 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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Abstract 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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Abstract: What is it to understand a linguistic utterance? According to the current orthodoxy in the philosophy of language, it is to be in a...
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Abstract This paper introduces the notion of ‘Conceptual Injustice’, which occurs when a person, group or phenomenon is wrongfully excluded from a concept. I present... |
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Thomas Schindler: A Gödelian solution of the class-theoretic paradoxes Abstract: A class is the extension of some predicate. Classes are not to be confused with... |
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Abstract Many semantic theories about count nouns and mass nouns use mereological notions like part and sum. At the lexical level, count nouns are often... |
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Abstract: This paper is concerned with the relationship between knowledge-how and a family of success in action notions, namely, skills, abilities, dispositions, and intentional actions.... |
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NB: Start time is 1.30pm! I will argue from various examples that the inaccessibility of As in terms of Bs need not imply that As... |
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Abstract: Deflationists claim that the truth predicate was introduced into our language merely to fulfil a certain logico-linguistic function. Oddly enough, the question what this... |
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Abstract: This paper adapts Lewis’ “Ptolemaic Astronomy” from Counterfactuals for use in looking at social hierarchy and subordination.
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Abstract A metalinguistic negotiation occurs when conversational partners are seemingly having a descriptive dispute about the world, but instead they are having a normative dispute... |
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This summer we are hosting the Arché 20th Anniversary Conference, and everyone is invited to celebrate with us. Programme Wednesday 19th June 08.40 – 09.00:... |
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Abstract This paper sketches, and partially defends, a metaphysics of human persons and “the self” that will help make sense of and lend support to a... |
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We will discuss Chiwook Won's paper 'Overdetermination, Counterfactuals, and Mental Causation'. You can find the paper here https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-philosophical-review/article/123/2/205/87565/Overdetermination-Counterfactuals-and-Mental As usual, the seminar will take place in Edgecliffe,...
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Abstract Taking the engineering part of conceptual engineering seriously means learning from the methods of other engineering disciplines. Since the concepts that philosophers want to... |
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Abstract I’ll discuss and evaluate four answers to this question, and argue for a fifth. |
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