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Title: Totality and Physics ABSTRACT: I will look at the notion of totality and how it figures in modern physics. The metaphysics and epistemology of... |
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ABSTRACT. — Climate scientist Peter Kalmus wrote “I feel like the climate scientists have kind of done our job... we’ve laid it out pretty clearly,... |
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--- THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED --- Abstract: Argumentation is often contrasted with testimony in that in cases of testimony, an epistemic agent (presumably) primarily... |
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TITLE: Instantiation What is it, metaphysically, for a universal property to be instantiated in a concrete particular, and for a concrete particular to instantiate a universal... |
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ABSTRACT. — Evidence matters in philosophy: the concept of evidence is central to both epistemology and the philosophy of science. Outside philosophy, the concept of evidence... |
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Abstract: In contemporary analytic epistemology, emotions are usually not considered to be a good justification for an agent’s belief, in the same way perception, memory,... |
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Title: The Genesis of Lewis’s Counterfactual Analysis of Causation Abstract: Lewis presented a prototype counterfactual analysis of causation back in 1958 — aged just 16... |
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DESCRIPTION Conceptual engineering focuses on how best to assess and improve our conceptual apparatuses. In less than half a decade, it has become a...
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Abstract: Novelty—understood as the value of saying something new—appears to be a good-making feature of a philosophical contribution. Beyond this, however, novelty functions as a marker... |
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TITLE: Fundamentality Without Favouritism ABSTRACT: According to a widely endorsed conception of fundamentality, the fundamental is characterized in terms of a certain privileged relation or... |
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https://youtu.be/DB_KBwVLwLg ABSTRACT. — We are living in times where there is considerable debate over what sex and gender are and who gets to be of what... |
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Abstract: In supplementing the familiar ways that our interpersonal relationships are morally fraught, recent work in epistemology on doxastic wronging has highlighted how these relationships... |
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TITLE: Against Conservative Ontology ABSTRACT: In his recent book Objects: Nothing Out of the Ordinary (2015), Dan Z. Korman argues in favour of conservatism in metaphysics, that is,... |
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ABSTRACT. — I propose to re-conceive the debate on natural kinds from the perspective of conceptual engineering. I take ‘natural’ kinds in a broadly naturalist way,... |
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Abstract: Discussions in a variety of contexts (including at least epistemic injustice, moral encroachment, epistemic obligations of friendship) sometimes assume that speakers have a right... |
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TITLE: Artifacts and the Limits of Human Creative Intentions ABSTRACT: According to Amie Thomasson’s author-intention-based account of artifacts, an artifact of kind K is essentially... |
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Joint work w/ Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) ABSTRACT. — We will discuss two different phenomena of language usage that we have characterized in past... |
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Abstract: When a person has evidence about their capacity to assess the evidence for or against a proposition, for example, when they have evidence that... |
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