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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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Title: An Empirical and Normative Argument for Paraconsistency Abstract: Graham Priest has presented various arguments for paraconsistent logic. One line of argument is based on... |
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Abstract: In this talk, we examine the viability of avoiding value judgements encoded in thick concepts when such thick concepts are used in economic theories.... |
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Title: "Public Artifacts and Collective Material Testimony" Abstract: Some features of the built public landscape, like monuments, memorials, murals, plazas, arches, and the like, can be testimony. More... |
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Abstract: According to a widely held view in the philosophy of mathematics, direct inferential justification for mathematical propositions (that are not axioms) requires proof. I...
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Abstract: I defend counterfactual decision theory, which says that you should evaluate an act in terms of which outcomes would likely obtain, were you to... |
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Title: NeoRussellian Logicism Abstract: The Russellian route for establishing the logicality of mathematics consisted in showing that mathematical entities are nothing but properties of a... |
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When Silence “Speaks” In this paper I aim to give an account of the contribution silence can make in a conversation, focusing exclusively on... |
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Title: Truthmaking beyond truthmakers, a solution for negative existentials Abstract: The problem of negative truths is arguably the puzzle for truthmaking theory, called the holy... |
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Understanding Plausible Deniability: How is it that a speaker S can at once make it obvious to an audience A that she intends to communicate some proposition p, and yet... |
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Abstract: In her 2018 paper “Pornographic Videogames: A Feminist Examination,” Mari Mikkola argues that pornographic videogames as a category are not problematic or worthy of... |
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Abstract: What distinguishes wise people from the masses? The wise person has an impressive grasp on the issues that really matter in life. But what... |
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EPISTEMIC BREAKTHROUGHS: A WORKSHOP University of St Andrews When? Friday, June 24th Saturday, June 25th Where? Lecture Room 2, at St Mary’s College, University of... |
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Title: One way the ways the world could have been can't be Abstract: Suppose we are contingentists and accept two commonly endorsed modal principles about propositions:... |
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Abstract: Philosophy is, for the most part, the study of what have turned out to be inconsistent concepts. An inconsistent concept is one whose constitutive... |
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