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SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave\, Insolubles
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-2/2022-05-02/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220502T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220502T170000
DTSTAMP:20220428T135652Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220428T135652Z
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:No meeting due to May bank holiday.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-seminar-6-2022-05-02/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220503T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220503T140000
DTSTAMP:20220428T103107Z
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SUMMARY:Language & Mind Seminar: Nicholas Shea (Institute of Philosophy)
DESCRIPTION:Concept-Driven Suppositional Scenarios \n  \nWork on concepts has concentrated on categorization. Categorization is a process that starts with perceptual representations (and other domain-specific resources) and transitions to a conceptual representation. Just as important\, however\, are inferences that\, rather than being driven by current stimuli\, start with conceptual representations. Often we engage in ‘offline’ thinking to formulate plans and take decisions. We derive consequences from facts that we remember and episodes that we have experienced. The usual paradigm for conceptually-driven thinking is reasoning. Reasoning moves from some concept-involving thoughts to others. Reasoning deploys a domain-general computational process\, rather like theorem-proving in logic\, and uses a domain-general representational system\, that of conceptual thought. \nOften overlooked between these two paradigms is the way that offline processing driven by conceptual thought draws on special-purpose resources: sensory\, motoric\, affective\, or supra-modal (e.g. the cognitive map of space). The phenomenon itself if familiar: we imagine a situation or think through counterfactual scenarios using representations from special-purpose systems. It encompasses simulation\, prospection and some forms of imagination. What is under-theorised is how suppositional thinking driven by conceptual representations works computationally. \nIn this paper I ask: what information do these kinds of inferences draw on\, how is it encoded\, and what kinds of computational process operate on it? I will argue that information is encoded in three quite distinct ways. As well as being represented explicitly in conceptually structured thoughts\, suppositional thinking draws on information represented implicitly in the computational dispositions of domain-specific systems\, and on information represented explicitly but in a domain-specific way in structural representations in special-purpose systems. There is also a fundamental difference in how the computations work. Computations in domain-specific systems are usually ‘content-specific’\, whereas computations over explicit representations in conceptual thought call for a quite different capacity\, the capacity for ‘non-content-specific’ computation. The paper will define\, illustrate and defend this new distinction.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-9-2022-04-05-2022-05-03/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220503T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220503T170000
DTSTAMP:20220430T113548Z
CREATED:20210629T142203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220430T113548Z
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SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Peter Railton (UMich) "Scaffolding Normative Concepts: Social Change\, Personal Development\, and Reverse Engineering"
DESCRIPTION: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 to think? What to do? What to feel? How to live and work together? This fits a number of the features of normative concepts\, such as their putative thought- and action-guidingness\, their projectability into novel situations\, their openness with respect to change\, and the supervenience of the normative properties they identify upon non-normative properties. Perhaps solutions developed in practice have been a scaffold for the development of normative concepts\, which in turn have afforded a framework for prospective responses to one another and to our world. (“Solutions” here should not be read as ultimately successful solutions\, or as something we’d endorse—solutions to problems of social stability\, for example\, have taken many forms through pre-history and history\, only some of which any of us might now advocate.) Looking at the history of some central normative concepts\, and also their appearance in psychological development\, we can see patterns that resemble what we would expect if some such picture of the distinctive role and character of normative concepts held. If so\, then reverse-engineering of our normative concepts could be a worthwhile research program in philosophy\, psychology\, and cognitive science—indeed\, it has begun in earnest in cognitive science. Reverse-engineering can also be a basis for criticism\, and can afford resources for constructive approach to conceptual change.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-5-2022-05-03/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T180000
DTSTAMP:20220503T105909Z
CREATED:20210629T140652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T105909Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Jade Fletcher
DESCRIPTION: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 event taking place in Castecliffe Seminar Room G5W and Teams. For any queries or a link to join the online meeting please email arche-fem-soc[at]st-andrews.ac.uk. \nRealism and Debunking about Social Kinds   \nDebates about realism and anti-realism in social constructionist metaphysics persist. Often\, conceptions of realism stated in terms of mind-independence tend to rule out social kinds from being really real. Recently\, there has been a lot of push-back by social metaphysicians to anti-realist readings of social constructionism. Defending the reality of a social kind is then understood to consist in showing that it is sufficiently objective\, that it is causally efficacious\, or perhaps deflating the distinction between the natural and the social. \nThis paper aims to articulate an often-ignored conception of realism which does justice to the core theoretical purpose of a range of social constructionist theories. According to epistemic conceptions of realism\, realism should be characterised by the possibility of substantive error. For the realist\, the search for truth is a matter of discovery not invention\, and success is not guaranteed. I argue that this epistemological conception of realism best captures the aims and methods of the those social constructionist theories that aim to debunk our ordinary beliefs about the social world.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-s2-2022-05-04/
LOCATION:Castlecliffe room G5W
CATEGORIES:Philosophy & Social Theory Arché Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T120000
DTSTAMP:20221019T145615Z
CREATED:20210629T140951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T145615Z
UID:10017663-1651744800-1651752000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Super Special
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URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/super-special-2022-04-07/2022-05-05/
CATEGORIES:Super Special Seminar series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T143000
DTSTAMP:20220502T171301Z
CREATED:20210629T150804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T171301Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Epistemology Seminar: Liz Jackson (Ryerson) "A Defense of Belief-Credence Dualism"
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled and will be postponed to a later date. \nAbstract:  Belief-credence dualism is the view that we have both beliefs and credences and both attitudes are equally fundamental. Here\, I defend belief-credence dualism. First\, I explain five views about the ontology of beliefs and credences: belief-eliminativism\, credence-first\, dualism\, belief-first\, and credence-eliminativism. After briefly explaining why I reject eliminativist views\, I motivate dualism by arguing that the remaining views\, belief-first (that belief is more fundamental) and credence-first (that credence is more fundamental) cannot account for various roles of each attitude. 
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-5-2022-05-05/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220509T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220509T110000
DTSTAMP:20221019T145630Z
CREATED:20210628T115628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T145630Z
UID:10017535-1652088600-1652094000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave\, Insolubles
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-2/2022-05-09/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220509T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220509T170000
DTSTAMP:20220505T133904Z
CREATED:20210628T121010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T133904Z
UID:10017570-1652108400-1652115600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics Seminar Roy Sorensen (University of Texas at Austin)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Plural Quantification and Perjury \nAbstract: \nSince the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970\, a prosecutor in the United States can prove perjury by virtue of one statement under oath contradicting another. The prosecutor’s knowledge of perjury need not be specific: she knows some of the statements are perjurious but there is no statement such that she knows it to be perjurious. My thesis is that the perjurer’s knowledge of his own present perjury can be equally nonspecific.  He can know some of his statements are perjurious in the same way as he can know some of his statements are inconsistent. Just as there need be no specific inconsistency\, there need be no specific perjurious statement. What goes for perjury\, goes for lies in general. Exportation is as invalid for telling lies as it is for selling pies. When a grocer sells you a pie through his web site\, there is no specific pie he is selling you. So do not trouble your conscience with this fallacious inference: \nI am telling some lie.  \nTherefore\, there is some lie such that I am telling it. 
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-seminar-6-2022-05-09/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220510T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220510T140000
DTSTAMP:20220502T125514Z
CREATED:20210628T122532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T125514Z
UID:10017585-1652184000-1652191200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language & Mind Seminar: Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (University of Manchester)
DESCRIPTION:Norm-Shifting through Oppressive Acts\n\n\nThis paper explains how social norms are changed by oppressive speech. Mary Kate McGowan (2019\, 2012\, 2009) has argued that norm shifting is an effect of any move within a norm governed activity. Thus\, moves in a conversational game change the norms of that game. McGowan also argues that individual acts can be parallel moves in multiple games at once. This paper identifies and explains a phenomenon called carry-over effect. I argue that parallel moves are insufficient to account for carry-over effects. The solution is a hierarchy of games. Specifically\, a conversational game is embedded in a larger social game. Each game has a separate but related set of roles for participants and targets. I show how this provides a solution to the problem of carry-over effects. In particular\, I argue that the idea of invited inference explains the fallacious reasoning that audience members employ in order to export conversational low-power roles to corresponding social roles. I discuss two candidate mechanisms that explain an incremental shift in social norms: a Bayesian rule of belief/attitude updating and an associationistic rule between the target and low-power roles based on group-membership. I conclude with brief remarks on the conditions under which harmful norms can spread\, become dominant and persist.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-9-2022-04-05-2022-05-10/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220510T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220510T170000
DTSTAMP:20220509T072612Z
CREATED:20210629T142203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220509T072612Z
UID:10017680-1652194800-1652202000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff University) "Engineering Autobiographical and Collective Memories"
DESCRIPTION: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 fraught. On the whole analytic epistemology of memory has been committed to assumptions\, and has focused on questions\, that do not help to understand the role of memory in the justification of political conflict\, hostility and affective polarisation. In this talk I provide an empirically informed account of autobiographical and collective memory that is fit for supplying such an understanding. I argue that we colloquially call “autobiographical memory” is to a large extent just a form of imagination known as mental time travel. Autobiographical memories turn out to be socially shaped narratives in the imagination that sustain self-understanding. Given this conception of a memory\, memories can be truthful even when they include content that was absent in past experiences; they can also mislead despite preserving content from past experiences. I also show that autobiographical memories are also especially vulnerable to being shaped by dominant ways of selecting past events and framing their significance. For this reason autobiographical memories are prone to being hermeneutically unjust. In the second half of the talk\, I focus on collective memories which are shared memories that are narratives that sustain collective identities. I apply the mental time travel framework to this kind of  memory to explain how collective memories can cause affective polarisation and are especially suited as justification for inter-group conflict. Finally\, I deploy the framework to make sense of the idea that members of a social group can have genuine collective autobiographical memories of events that happened before any of the current members of the group were born.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-5-2022-05-10/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T180000
DTSTAMP:20220506T150954Z
CREATED:20210629T140652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220506T150954Z
UID:10017651-1652284800-1652292000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Gillian Russell
DESCRIPTION: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 attended either online (via teams) or in person (Castlecliffe). For a copy of the reading\, and a link to attend the meeting please email arche-fem-soc[at]st-andrews.ac.uk.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-s2-2022-05-11/
LOCATION:Castlecliffe room G5W
CATEGORIES:Philosophy & Social Theory Arché Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T120000
DTSTAMP:20221019T145615Z
CREATED:20210629T140951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T145615Z
UID:10017664-1652349600-1652356800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Super Special
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/super-special-2022-04-07/2022-05-12/
CATEGORIES:Super Special Seminar series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T143000
DTSTAMP:20220506T090808Z
CREATED:20210629T150804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220506T090808Z
UID:10017705-1652360400-1652365800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Clayton Littlejohn (KCL) "Why Externalism?"
DESCRIPTION: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 the externalists. Confession. I’ve often struggled to understand why anyone would be an externalist. Additional confession. This makes me worry. If externalists struggle to understand why other externalists accept similar conclusions (e.g.\, I find the rationales for reliabilism quite opaque)\, it seems that my side is at a serious disadvantage. What I’ll do is offer a new(ish) rationale for externalism\, one that builds on some previous arguments but addresses the issues that\, in my view\, are the interesting ones that we should explore further. There’s no point in denying\, I think\, that we sometimes speak as if justification is an internalist notion\, but that might either be because this way of speaking tells us a part of what justification or justification-talk is for or because that’s all there is to justification. I think the internalist picture leaves some important things out that the externalist can account for. Moreover\, I think the externalist picture gives us explanatory resources that the internalist views lack. I can imagine that some internalists will respond by saying that there’s some deep and important insight into the nature of normativity that their view captures and that externalists either overlook or deny\, but I shall explain why I think this response is interesting\, important\, and probably mistaken. I hope that it’s mistaken in an interesting and important way.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-5-2022-05-12/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220516T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220516T110000
DTSTAMP:20221019T145630Z
CREATED:20210628T115628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T145630Z
UID:10017536-1652693400-1652698800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave\, Insolubles
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-2/2022-05-16/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220516T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220516T170000
DTSTAMP:20220505T143500Z
CREATED:20210628T121010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T143500Z
UID:10017571-1652713200-1652720400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics Seminar Franz Berto (University of St. Andrews and ILLC)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Cognitive Synonymy: a Dead Parrot? \nAbstract: \nSentences φ and ψ are cognitive synonyms for one when they play the same role in one’s cognitive life: what one understands given either\, one does\, given the other; what one concludes (deductively\, abductively\, inductively\, etc.) supposing either\, one does\, supposing the other; one would revise one’s beliefs in the same way after learning either; etc. \nThe notion is pervasive in linguistic and philosophical semantics\, cogpsi\, and AI – but elusive: it’s bound to be hyperintensional\, but excessive fine-graining\, e.g.\, by indiscriminate use of ‘open’ impossible worlds\, would trivialize it and there are independent reasons for some coarse-graining. It should be sensitive to subject matters and conceptual limitations\, but this stands in the way of a natural algebra: even non-distributive or non-modular lattices won’t do. \nBesides\, a cognitively adequate individuation of content may be intransitive due to ‘dead parrot’ series: sequences φ1\, …\, φn where adjacent φi\,φj are cognitive synonyms for one while φ1 and φn are not. But finding an intransitive account is hard: Fregean equipollence won’t do and an impossibility result by Leitgeb shows that it wouldn’t satisfy a minimal compositionality principle . Sed contra\, there are reasons for transitivity\, too (from substitutivity salva veritate\, non-mononotonicity\, and uniformity principles). \nIn spite of this mess\, we come up with a formal semantics capturing this whole jumble of desiderata\, thereby giving evidence that the notion is coherent. We then re-assess dead parrot cases in its light.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-seminar-6-2022-05-16/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220517T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220517T140000
DTSTAMP:20220509T085129Z
CREATED:20210628T122532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220509T085129Z
UID:10017586-1652788800-1652796000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language & Mind Seminar: Mark Textor (KCL)
DESCRIPTION:Sensory Feeling as the Source of the Self: \nThe distinction between I and not-I is of fundamental importance in European philosophy. What grounds this distinction? I will introduce and examine a once prominent\, but now neglected answer to this question and isolate its plausible core. The German philosopher and psychologist Herman Lotze (1817-81) argued that sensory feeling is the ground of the I/not-I distinction. I will expound Lotze’s answer by focussing on his detailed theory of sensory feeling. After uncovering a problem for Lotze\, I will go on and defend the spirit of Lotze’s approach by drawing on a proposal by Lotze’s student James Ward (1843-1925). In this proposal coenesthesis (Gemeingefühl) or universal feeling is central.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-9-2022-04-05-2022-05-17/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220517T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220517T170000
DTSTAMP:20220511T094951Z
CREATED:20210629T142203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220511T094951Z
UID:10017681-1652799600-1652806800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University) "From Point of View to Perspective"
DESCRIPTION: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 in their interpretations of a common informational content. While such perceptual language is ubiquitous and intuitive\, its application to abstract domains like religion\, politics\, art\, and science must be metaphorical. I introduce three analogies with perception\, sketch my own view of a perspective as an open-ended disposition to notice\, structure\, and respond to information in an intuitive\, holistic way\, and identify some payoffs of this analysis.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-5-2022-05-17/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T180000
DTSTAMP:20220513T084629Z
CREATED:20210629T140652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220513T084629Z
UID:10017652-1652889600-1652896800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Emilia Wilson\, "Disability\, Ableism\, & Assisted Dying"
DESCRIPTION: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 format\, meaning you can attend online (via Teams) or in person (at Seminar Room 5GW in Castlecliffe). For more information and a link for the online meeting\, please email arche-fem-soc[at]st-andrews.ac.uk. \nTitle: “Disability\, Ableism\, & Assisted Dying” \nAbstract: My aim in this presentation is to present a view on which disability is constructed by ableist ideology and examine some upshots for medical ethics. I begin by contrasting medicalised and social models of disability. I propose examining ableist ideology as a methodology to identify the social location of disability\, attempting to identify some core characteristics ableism. I use this account to argue that we can make no principled distinction between supposedly ‘medical’ versus ‘environmental’ suffering. If correct this means that many supposedly ‘moderate’ positions in medical policy\, which carve exceptions for medicalised suffering\, are flawed. I end by discussing some concerns about a recent assisted dying member’s bill entered into Scottish Parliament.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-s2-2022-05-18/
LOCATION:Castlecliffe room G5W
CATEGORIES:Philosophy & Social Theory Arché Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T120000
DTSTAMP:20221019T145615Z
CREATED:20210629T140951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T145615Z
UID:10017665-1652954400-1652961600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Super Special
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/super-special-2022-04-07/2022-05-19/
CATEGORIES:Super Special Seminar series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T143000
DTSTAMP:20220517T140740Z
CREATED:20210629T150804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220517T140740Z
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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Ole Hjortland (Bergen) "From naturalism to anti-exceptionalism"
DESCRIPTION: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\, logic is revisable\, and the revisions come about through methods of theory-choice not unlike those of the sciences. But there are also important differences between contemporary anti-exceptionalism and naturalism. We compare the Quinean method of theory-choice with anti-exceptionalist alternatives\, and argue that the latter better supports existing revisionary arguments.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-5-2022-05-19/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T110000
DTSTAMP:20221019T145630Z
CREATED:20210628T115628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T145630Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave\, Insolubles
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-2/2022-05-23/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T180000
DTSTAMP:20220522T180824Z
CREATED:20210628T121010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T180824Z
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics Seminar Sandra M. López (University of St. Andrews and University of Salamanca)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Where relevance meets many-valued logic: six interesting systems and their  semantics.\n \nAbstract: \nIn my doctoral dissertation\, six new 4-valued logics of interest within the context of non-classical logics and in particular\, logics in the family of relevance logic\, were developed and studied in depth by means of different kinds of semantics. These logics are built upon implicative variants of Brady’s 4-valued matrix MBN4 which verify Routley and Meyer’s basic logic B. \nOn the one hand\, Routley and Meyer’s logic B is an essential system among weak relevance logics due to the fact that it has traditionally served as a starting point to develop one of their most characteristic semantics: Routley-Meyer ternary relational semantics. On the other hand\, Brady developed a central system among many-valued and relevance logics: the logic determined by the 4-valued matrix MBN4. This logic has been considered as the most suitable for relevant contexts involving inconsistent and incomplete information. As a matter of fact\, Brady chose the label BN4 for his system because it contains Routley and Meyer’s basic logic B and has neither as one of its four characteristic truth-values. \nThe aim of this talk is twofold: (1) show the main properties of the six aforementioned systems and (2) explain the main features of the different semantics which they were endowed with.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-seminar-6-2022-05-23/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220524T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220524T140000
DTSTAMP:20220512T142419Z
CREATED:20210628T122532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220512T142419Z
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SUMMARY:Language & Mind Seminar: Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa)
DESCRIPTION:Semantic Implications of Evolutionary Theory for Psychology\n\n\nEvolutionary explanations imply ontological commitment to characters. “Character” is a technical term in biology for the units that capture the evolutionary trajectories of traits. I will explain what characters are\, what ontological commitment to characters involves\, and what this ontological commitment implies for our understanding of cognitive abilities and our uses of cognitive terms to refer to those abilities.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-9-2022-04-05-2022-05-24/
LOCATION:In person/hybrid
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220524T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220524T170000
DTSTAMP:20220518T122040Z
CREATED:20210629T142203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220518T122040Z
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SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Steffen Koch (Bielefeld University) & Jakob Ohlhorst (University of Vienna) "The Mind-Expanding Powers of Conceptual Engineering"
DESCRIPTION: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 can go as far as expanding the realm of thinkable thoughts and thus enable us to form beliefs\, hypotheses\, wishes or desires that we are currently unable to form. As exciting as this idea certainly is\, it has never been developed or defended properly. In this talk\, we pursue a twofold goal. First\, to offer a theory of what such mind-expanding conceptual engineering is and what distinguishes it from other kinds of conceptual engineering; second\, to show that this kind of conceptual engineering is possible\, both in theory and in practice\, and to explain how it can be pursued. A central starting point for the account is Susan Carey’s work on conceptual discontinuities and Quinean bootstrapping.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/conceptual-engineering-seminar-5-2022-05-24/
CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T180000
DTSTAMP:20220522T225545Z
CREATED:20210629T140652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220522T225545Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Emilia Wilson "Disability\, Ableism & Assisted Dying"
DESCRIPTION:Title: Disability\, Ableism & Assisted Dying \n\nPlease note that the presentation will include potentially distressing examples of medical ableism and ableist language. \nAbstractMy aim in this presentation is to present a view on which disability is constructed by ableist ideology and examine some upshots for medical ethics. I begin by contrasting medicalised and social models of disability. I propose examining ableist ideology\, attempting to identify some core characteristics of ableism\,to identify the social location of disability. I use this account to argue that we can make no principled distinction between supposedly ‘medical’ versus ‘environmental’ suffering. If correct this means that many supposedly ‘moderate’ positions in medical policy\, which carve exceptions for medicalised suffering\, are flawed. I end by discussing some implications for\, and concerns about\, current policy proposals in Canada and Scotland. \n\nThe seminar will take place 4-6 pm Wednesday\, May 25th and you can attend either online via Teams (link below) or in person at Castlecliffe room 5GW. To receive the link to attend the online meeting\, please email arche-fem-soc@st-andrews.ac.uk.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-s2-2022-05-25/
CATEGORIES:Philosophy & Social Theory Arché Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220526T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220526T120000
DTSTAMP:20221019T145615Z
CREATED:20210629T140951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T145615Z
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SUMMARY:Super Special
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URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/super-special-2022-04-07/2022-05-26/
CATEGORIES:Super Special Seminar series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220526T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220526T143000
DTSTAMP:20220523T084929Z
CREATED:20210629T150804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220523T084929Z
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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Roy Sorensen (St Andrews) "TIME TRAVELER CONFIRMS THE FIVE MINUTE HYPOTHESIS!" [Hybrid]
DESCRIPTION: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 justified if previously believed\, a belief is self-undermining if it does not leave enough time for it to be rationally formed. But what matters for any norm is personal time\, not time. Personal time is a time-like relation (roughly\, the time measured by your wristwatch) that knits together temporal parts so that they conform to familiar laws of nature. Processes that disrupt developmental sequences (artificially aging\, progeria\, high speed travel) threaten inconsistent narratives. These ostensible contradictions lead non-actual phenomena\, such as time travel\, to be over-judged as impossible. Indeed\, the need to draw a distinction between time and personal time emerged most forcefully for those seeking a consistent reading of this genre of fiction. This literary illumination allows us to discern a less visible need to draw the distinction for all types of value: prudential\, moral\, aesthetic\, and epistemic. \nHybrid talk. Room: School V.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-5-2022-05-26/
LOCATION:School V\, United College\, St Salvator's Quad\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T110000
DTSTAMP:20221019T145630Z
CREATED:20210628T115628Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave\, Insolubles
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-2/2022-05-30/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T170000
DTSTAMP:20220527T131820Z
CREATED:20210628T121010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220527T131820Z
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics Seminar Matteo Nizzardo (University of St. Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: The cost of being an Anti-Haecceitist \nAbstract: Haecceitism is the thesis that there are qualitatively indiscernible and yet distinct possibilities. I argue that Haecceitism is connected to the Identity of Indiscernibles (PII) in the following way: that if you believe PII is not a necessary truth\, then you are forced to accept Haecceitism.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-seminar-6-2022-05-30/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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