BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Arche - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Arche X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Arche REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221201T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221201T120000 DTSTAMP:20221019T145458Z CREATED:20220707T120351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T145458Z UID:10017787-1669888800-1669896000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Super Special Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/super-special-seminar-7/2022-12-01/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Super Special Seminar series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221201T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221201T173000 DTSTAMP:20221120T112113Z CREATED:20221020T151722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221120T112113Z UID:10017807-1669910400-1669915800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Epistemology Current Themes Seminar: Jules Holroyd (Sheffield) (co-hosted with CEPPA) "Proleptic Praise" DESCRIPTION: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 argue that by foregrounding cases in which expressions of praise are rejected by their direct target\, we see that praise has a wider\, and largely neglected\, social function. First I introduce cases in which praise is rejected. Then\, I identify a series of desiderata for an analysis of praise by bringing these cases into contact with existing views about what praise is and does. Finally I develop a functionalist account and show how it can meet these desiderata. In outline\, my claim is that one key function of praise is to exert social pressure by bestowing esteem. I tease out some mechanisms via which praise exerts social pressure\, and is particularly difficult to challenge. This analysis is responsive to\, and places at the foreground of our analysis\, the possibility that praise can be used for bad and oppressive ends. URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-current-themes-seminar-jules-holroyd-sheffield/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T110000 DTSTAMP:20221128T184940Z CREATED:20221128T184940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221128T184940Z UID:10017732-1670232600-1670238000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: John Dumbleton\, De Scire DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-2022-10-03-2/2022-12-05/ LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group ORGANIZER;CN="Stephen Read":MAILTO:arche@st-andrews.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T170000 DTSTAMP:20221130T144306Z CREATED:20221130T144306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221130T144306Z UID:10017747-1670252400-1670259600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Frederik Andersen (University of St. Andrews) DESCRIPTION:Title: Modeling Deep Disagreement in Default Logic  \nAbstract: \nDefault logic has been a very active research topic in artificial intelligence since the early 1980s\, but has not received as much attention in the philosophical literature thus far. This paper shows one way in which the technical tools of artificial intelligence can be applied in contemporary epistemology by modeling a paradigmatic case of deep disagreement using default logic. In §1 model-building viewed as a kind of philosophical progress is briefly motivated\, while §2 introduces the case of deep disagreement we aim to model. On the heels of this\, §3 defines our formal framework\, viz.\, a refined Horty-style default logic. §4 then uses the framework to model deep disagreement\, and finally §5 provides a critical discussion of the result. URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-2-2022-09-19-2022-10-17-8/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221206T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221206T140000 DTSTAMP:20221130T162312Z CREATED:20221111T104618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221130T162312Z UID:10017761-1670328000-1670335200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind Seminar | Frank Sode (Goethe University Frankfurt) "On counterfactuality in counterfactuals and desire reports" DESCRIPTION:The question I’m going to address in this talk is: Is there a deeper connection between the rules of use associated with (utterances of) counterfactuals and the rules of use associated with reports of counterfactual desires? Heim (1992) proposes a semantics for desire reports that suggests that the answer is: yes. Her proposal is based on the idea that “there is a hidden conditional in every desire report”\, an idea she traces back to Stalnaker (1984). In the first part of the talk\, I present a decompositional account of Heim’s proposal that reduces the rules of use associated with reports of counterfactual desires to the rules of use of counterfactuals and standard assumptions about the projection of presuppositions under attitudes. In the second part of the talk\, I present cross- linguistic data\, mainly based on von Fintel & Iatridou (2022) and my own work\, that show that in many languges there is a close grammatical connection between counterfactuals and reports of counterfactual desires. I argue that Heim’s conceptual idea if taken quite literally as an idea about the grammar of desire reports is the most promissing candidate to date in explaining the cross-linguistic facts. The surprising harmony between Heim’s conceptual idea and the empirical facts suggests that there may be an important lesson to be learned from grammar about the notional category of counterfactual desires. URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-10-2022-12-06-2/ LOCATION:Online Meeting via Teams CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221207T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221207T180000 DTSTAMP:20221003T081846Z CREATED:20220707T120014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T081846Z UID:10017776-1670428800-1670436000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Lara Jost DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/feminist-philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-2022-12-07/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Philosophy & Social Theory Arché Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221208T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221208T120000 DTSTAMP:20221019T145458Z CREATED:20220707T120351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T145458Z UID:10017788-1670493600-1670500800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Super Special Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/super-special-seminar-7/2022-12-08/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Super Special Seminar series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221208T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221208T143000 DTSTAMP:20221202T134046Z CREATED:20221020T151759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221202T134046Z UID:10017808-1670504400-1670509800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Epistemology Current Themes Seminar: Katharina Bernhard (St Andrews) "Permissivism and Inductive Risk" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Proponents of inductive risk make three claims: (1) When accepting or not-accepting a hypothesis\, a scientist qua scientist must weigh the risks of error. (2) In weighing the risks of error\, a scientist must resort to non-epistemic utilities. (3) Epistemically\, these (non-epistemic) utilities ought to merely play an indirect role.To make sense of (1)-(3)\, I will draw on recent discussions in epistemic utility theory concerning epistemic risk and Permissivism. Presupposing a Lockean Thesis\, epistemic risk requires us to make a decision as to whether to believe\, (suspend judgement on\,) or disbelieve a proposition in light of the risks of error. These risks of error can be of two kinds: believing a false proposition or not believing a true one. I will introduce three types of Permissivism within this epistemic risk framework that look particularly promising as a model for inductive risk. The first concerns the permissiveness of different decision rules (risk inclined\, risk neutral\, risk averse) while the other two types “encode” Permissivism in the epistemic utilities (how much one disvalues one type of error over the other). \nI will ultimately dismiss the decision-rule type of Permissivism as a suitable model of inductive risk\, and argue that the remaining two types of Permissivism both are attractive options for the proponent of inductive risk to endorse. URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-current-themes-seminar-katharina-bernhard-st-andrews/ CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221212T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221212T110000 DTSTAMP:20221128T184940Z CREATED:20221128T184940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221128T184940Z UID:10017733-1670837400-1670842800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: John Dumbleton\, De Scire DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-2022-10-03-2/2022-12-12/ LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group ORGANIZER;CN="Stephen Read":MAILTO:arche@st-andrews.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221212T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221212T170000 DTSTAMP:20221208T201220Z CREATED:20221208T201220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T201220Z UID:10017748-1670857200-1670864400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Franz Berto (University of St. Andrews and University of Amsterdam) DESCRIPTION:Title: Imaging and Imagining \nAbstract: \nI investigate the workings and epistemic credentials of counterfactual imagination: the activity of supposing that P in order to investigate what would be the case if P was the case. The mainstream way of drawing the distinction between imagination in the indicative and in the subjunctive or counterfactual mood has it that one can only suppose that P in the former way when one gives nonzero chance to P. I argue that that’s wrong. Instead\, both kinds of suppositional thinking work by simulated belief revision; but while the former is governed by Bayesian conditionalization\, the latter is governed by Lewisian imaging. So understood\, counterfactual imagination can be rationally justified by considerations concerning belief accuracy: a specific kind of imaging\, namely Laplacian generalized imaging\, minimizes expected inaccuracy as measured by the Brier score. So if one endorses the claims that (expected) accuracy is the fundamental virtue of epistemic attitudes\, and that accuracy is adequately measured by the Brier score\, imagining via imaging is virtuous indeed. URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-2-2022-09-19-2022-10-17-9/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221213T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221213T140000 DTSTAMP:20221212T103105Z CREATED:20220707T115653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T103105Z UID:10017762-1670932800-1670940000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind Seminar | Lixiao Lin "Self-location\, other-location\, and impossible world" DESCRIPTION:Self-locating (or de se\, first-person) attitudes (e.g. the belief that I am great) and other-locating (or de re) attitudes (e.g. the hope that that person is awesome) raise problems for theories of propositions. In this talk\, I develop an impossible-world theory of self-locating and other-locating attitudes\, according to which the propositional contents of the two types of attitudes can be fully characterised in terms of impossible-world propositions (i.e. propositions that are sets of possible and impossible worlds). I will argue that my impossible-world theory is preferable to the standard centred-world theory.  URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-10-2022-12-06-2022-12-13/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221214T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221214T180000 DTSTAMP:20221019T145518Z CREATED:20220707T120014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T145518Z UID:10017766-1671033600-1671040800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/feminist-philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar/2022-12-14/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Philosophy & Social Theory Arché Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221215T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221215T120000 DTSTAMP:20221019T145458Z CREATED:20220707T120351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T145458Z UID:10017789-1671098400-1671105600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Super Special Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/super-special-seminar-7/2022-12-15/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Super Special Seminar series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221215T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221215T143000 DTSTAMP:20221210T145117Z CREATED:20221020T151834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221210T145117Z UID:10017809-1671109200-1671114600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Epistemology Current Themes Seminar: Francisca Silva (St Andrews) "Full and Partial Grasp on a Subject Matter" DESCRIPTION:Abstract:Extant accounts of subject matter all assume that an agent either fully grasps or does not grasp a given subject matter. Although useful\, this idealization also comes with limitations\, and like theories spelled out in terms of full belief can be enriched when modified to account for credences\, so can theories spelled out in terms of full grasp on a subject matter be enriched when modified to account for degrees of grasp on a subject matter. \nIn this talk I’ll start by presenting an intuitive and formal understanding of what it is to have a partial grasp on a subject matter and how it differs from having more or less information on it\, both notions which I cash out in terms of answers to a question under discussion. I then show with examples how agents having a partial grasp on a subject matter can come about from cases such as those involving limited conceptual resources\, limited information\, and personal biases and patterns of discrimination in one’s social environment. Having done that\, I consider how the notions of a partial grasp and partial information on a subject matter interact with each other and with Yablo’s (2014) notion of content inclusion. Finally\, I motivate the need for a better understanding of a partial grasp on a subject matter by showing how a common occurrence – conflating two different topics or questions – can only be understood once partial grasp is accommodated. URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-current-themes-seminar-francisca-silva-st-andrews/ LOCATION:Online Meeting via Teams CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221219T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221219T170000 DTSTAMP:20221019T223824Z CREATED:20220707T115344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T223824Z UID:10017749-1671462000-1671469200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-2-2022-09-19-2022-10-17/2022-12-19/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221220T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221220T140000 DTSTAMP:20220925T101514Z CREATED:20220707T115653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220925T101514Z UID:10017763-1671537600-1671544800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-10-2022-12-06-2022-12-20/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR