Events
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Reading group session on an unpublished draft of the Introduction of the book Barriers to Entailment, authored by Gillian Russell. |
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Can an Artificial Intelligence ever be a Person with Consciousness and Free Will? Saudi Arabia awarded citizenship to a robot, and the European Parliament is... |
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Professor Kate Ritchie (UC Irvine) will be presenting work co-authored with Dr Jessica Keiser (Leeds) titled "Social Structures in Context". The talk will take place... |
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Abstract: In the past couple of decades, the slate of logical alternatives has grown rather spectacularly large. Moreover, there's been an increasing amount of work... |
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Concept-Driven Suppositional Scenarios Work on concepts has concentrated on categorization. Categorization is a process that starts with perceptual representations (and other domain-specific resources) and...
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Abstract: Our normative concepts—theoretical and practical—often seem to function as ways of presenting potential solutions to problems that are characteristic of our shared lives: What... |
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Dr Jade Fletcher will be giving a presentation titled "Realism and Debunking about Social Kinds" from 4-6 pm Wednesday May 4th. It is a Hyrbid... |
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This event has been cancelled and will be postponed to a later date. Abstract: Belief-credence dualism is the view that we have both beliefs and credences... |
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Title: Plural Quantification and Perjury Abstract: Since the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, a prosecutor in the United States can prove perjury by virtue of... |
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Norm-Shifting through Oppressive Acts This paper explains how social norms are changed by oppressive speech. Mary Kate McGowan (2019, 2012, 2009) has argued that norm...
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Abstract: Autobiographical memory, both individual and collective, is a way of knowing about, and making sense of, the personal past. It is also notoriously politically... |
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This week's feminist seminar will be a discussion group of reading Annette Baier's paper "Trust and Antitrust". The meeting will be hybrid and can be... |
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Abstract: This talk is an early version of an intended contribution to a long-standing debate about justification. This is the debate between the internalists and... |
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Title: Cognitive Synonymy: a Dead Parrot? Abstract: Sentences φ and ψ are cognitive synonyms for one when they play the same role in one’s cognitive... |
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Sensory Feeling as the Source of the Self: The distinction between I and not-I is of fundamental importance in European philosophy. What grounds this distinction?...
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Abstract: In both ordinary speech and theoretical discourse, we often talk about 'points of view' and 'perspectives' to gesture toward ways in which agents differ... |
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For this week's seminar, Emilia Wilson will be presenting a work in progress titled "Disability, Ableism, & Assisted Dying". The seminar will take a hybrid... |
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Abstract: Parts of Quine's philosophy of logic has been revitalized in the recent debate about anti-exceptionalism. According to both the Quinean naturalist and the anti-exceptionalist,... |
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Title: Where relevance meets many-valued logic: six interesting systems and their semantics. Abstract: In my doctoral dissertation, six new 4-valued logics of interest within the... |
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Semantic Implications of Evolutionary Theory for Psychology Evolutionary explanations imply ontological commitment to characters. “Character” is a technical term in biology for the units that...
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Abstract: Conceptual engineering is the process of assessing and improving our conceptual repertoire. Some authors have claimed that introducing or revising concepts through conceptual engineering... |
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Title: Disability, Ableism & Assisted Dying Please note that the presentation will include potentially distressing examples of medical ableism and ableist language. AbstractMy aim in this... |
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Abstract: Many epistemological principles are formulated temporally: a conclusion can be learned from a premise only if the premise is known before the conclusion, a belief is... |
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Title: The cost of being an Anti-Haecceitist Abstract: Haecceitism is the thesis that there are qualitatively indiscernible and yet distinct possibilities. I argue that Haecceitism... |
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Judgment First According to Peter Geach, ‘a proposition may occur in discourse now asserted, now unasserted’. Geach calls this ‘the Frege point’. It conflicts with...
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Abstract: One major motivation for conceptual engineering is that some ways in which we think and talk about reality are defective. Mona Simion, however, argues... |
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This week's seminar will be a talk by Francisca Silva titled "Questions and Gender Questioning". It will be a hybrid seminar and you can attend... |
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Abstract: Transformative decisions are almost always framed as a problem for decision theory. However, it seems that the problem has no real bite when presented... |
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