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Title: Indeterminacy and Rational Belief Abstract: There are a variety of norms that purport to govern what attitude an agent ought to adopt. It is... |
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I sketch a new puzzle about rational belief and use it to motivate the coherence of blameless irrationality. Relying on a recent framework developed by... |
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Title: The Limits of Trust: First Person Testimony, Unreliability, and the case of ‘Medical Gaslighting’ Abstract: Recent work in social and feminist epistemology has emphasized... |
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Abstract: I am ignorant of many things. Sometimes that ignorance seems epistemically permissible. At other times it seems impermissible. The problem of permissibility is the... |
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Suppose I assert ''Jim is rich''. According to negotiated contextualism, my assertion should be understood as a proposal to adopt a standard of wealth such... |
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**This talk has been cancelled** Abstract: The lecture will take an epistemological look at the phenomenon of echo chambers. In public reception, echo chambers are... |
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An attractive and, until recently, orthodox view is that the epistemic domain is in an important sense insulated from other normative domains, for example the moral or... |
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Title: A tour of logical instrumentalism Abstract: Logical instrumentalism, broadly defined, is the position that holds that logic should be understood as a tool or... |
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In section IV of ‘On Referring’ (1950), P.F Strawson warns us of the “long philosophical shadows” cast by the subject-predicate distinction. “The distinctions between particular... |
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This seminar will take place entirely online via Teams: if you would like to attend please email arche-fem-socst-andrews.ac.uk for details. This will be a short... |
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Abstract: This is a thesis-antitheses-synthesis kind of talk. We begin with a question: How should one react to one's own moral achievements and moral failures,... |
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Title: Bread Prices and Sea Levels: Interventionism, Monotonicity, and the Problem of Variable Relativity Abstract: A key challenge for interventionist causal models is to distinguish non-causal... |
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Egocentric thoughts, such as those that we express using words like ‘I’, ‘here’, and ‘now’, have led to many puzzles. One of these arises from... |
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Title: Meaning, Structure, Pluralism: A Co-Determination Theory of Connective Meaning Abstract: In this talk, I propose a proof-theoretic theory of the meaning of logical connectives in... |
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Social philosophy of language has recently focused on toxic speech and counterspeech. Roughly, toxic speech is discourse that engages (or incites people to engage) in... |
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Abstract: What is praise? I argue that we can make progress by examining what praise does. Functionalist views of praise are emerging, but I here... |
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