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UID:10019481-1759330800-1759338000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Greg Restall\, “Modality and Existence”
DESCRIPTION:This is the second of three sessions\, on inferentialist semantics. Greg will be in Taiwan delivering the 2025 Wendy Huang Lectures\, and these three sessions in the M&L seminar are his opportunity to give the lectures a preliminary outing. \nI have three aims for this set of lectures. Two are central\, and the third is incidental: \n\nTo give an account of what is so distinctive about logic\, insofar as logical notions have a grip on whatever can be said or thought.\nTo clarify the connections between logic and semantics\, the theory of meaning.\nThe product of these two aims is that I get to provide a philosophical prolegomena and a non-technical introduction to the more technical work I have done in my forthcoming manuscript Proof\, Rules and Meaning.\n\nToday\, I aim to show how this inferentialist semantics applies to issues of predication\, quantification and modality\, and thereby provides some distinctive insight into ‘possible worlds’ models for quantified modal logics.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-4/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T120000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070526Z
CREATED:20250902T103654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070526Z
UID:10019495-1759399200-1759406400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Plenary / Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-special-seminar/2025-10-02/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T143000
DTSTAMP:20250930T085137Z
CREATED:20250902T103755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T085137Z
UID:10019529-1759410000-1759415400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:ECT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-seminar/2025-10-02/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251006T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251006T110000
DTSTAMP:20251125T222920Z
CREATED:20250902T101400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251125T222920Z
UID:10019412-1759743000-1759748400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Buridan's treatise on suppositions\, chapter 4
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-7/2025-10-06/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251006T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251006T150000
DTSTAMP:20250911T153723Z
CREATED:20250911T153723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T153723Z
UID:10019426-1759755600-1759762800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Sidertis\, Buddhist Metaphysics
DESCRIPTION:Pre-Read session on Siderits\, M.\, How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics\, OUP\, [Section 4.1] https://doi-org.ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk/10.1093/oso/9780197606902.003.0004 and Siderits\, M.\, Buddhist Physicalism? Non-self Metaphysics and Phenomenal Consciousness OUP [Section 2.1]\nhttps://doi.org/10.1093/9780197799697.003.0003
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-25-5/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251006T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251006T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070212Z
CREATED:20250902T102944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070212Z
UID:10019440-1759762800-1759770000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar/2025-10-06/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251007T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251007T140000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070306Z
CREATED:20250902T103225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070306Z
UID:10019454-1759838400-1759845600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-48/2025-10-07/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251007T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251007T170000
DTSTAMP:20251006T005034Z
CREATED:20251006T005034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T005034Z
UID:10019468-1759849200-1759856400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Seminar - Han Edgoose (Glasgow) - In-person
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-16-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T180000
DTSTAMP:20250919T110404Z
CREATED:20250915T134720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250919T110404Z
UID:10019482-1759939200-1759946400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Greg Restall\, “Inferentialist Pre-Semantics for Truth-Conditional Semantics”
DESCRIPTION:This is the third of three sessions\, on inferentialist semantics. Greg will be in Taiwan delivering the 2025 Wendy Huang Lectures\, and these three sessions in the M&L seminar are his opportunity to give the lectures a preliminary outing. \nI have three aims for this set of lectures. Two are central\, and the third is incidental: \n\nTo give an account of what is so distinctive about logic\, insofar as logical notions have a grip on whatever can be said or thought.\nTo clarify the connections between logic and semantics\, the theory of meaning.\nThe product of these two aims is that I get to provide a philosophical prolegomena and a non-technical introduction to the more technical work I have done in my forthcoming manuscript Proof\, Rules and Meaning.\n\nToday\, I aim to show how we might relate inferentialist semantics to truth-conditional accounts of meaning for natural languages.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-13/
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T120000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070526Z
CREATED:20250902T103654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070526Z
UID:10019496-1760004000-1760011200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Plenary / Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-special-seminar/2025-10-09/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T143000
DTSTAMP:20250930T082108Z
CREATED:20250930T081246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T082108Z
UID:10019213-1760014800-1760020200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar:
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Vermaire (St Andrews) ‘Practical Inquiry’
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-9-6/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T110000
DTSTAMP:20251125T222920Z
CREATED:20250902T101400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251125T222920Z
UID:10019413-1760347800-1760353200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Buridan's treatise on suppositions\, chapter 4
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-7/2025-10-13/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, St Andrews\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T150000
DTSTAMP:20250911T153834Z
CREATED:20250911T153834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T153834Z
UID:10019427-1760360400-1760367600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Husserl's Logical Investigations\, Vol II\, Investigation III
DESCRIPTION:Pre-Read session on Husserl’s Logical Investigations\, Vol II\, Investigation III. [only pp. 161—166.]\nhttps://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/logical-investigations.pdf and Piwowarczyk\, M. (2023). In search of unity: Twardowski\, Husserl\, and Ingarden on the unity of the object. European Journal of Philosophy\, 31(1)\, 118–136. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12792
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-25-6/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070212Z
CREATED:20250902T102944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070212Z
UID:10019441-1760367600-1760374800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar/2025-10-13/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251014T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251014T140000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070306Z
CREATED:20250902T103225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070306Z
UID:10019455-1760443200-1760450400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-48/2025-10-14/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251014T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251014T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070356Z
CREATED:20250902T103351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070356Z
UID:10019469-1760454000-1760461200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-16/2025-10-14/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T170000
DTSTAMP:20251006T141754Z
CREATED:20250908T082815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T141754Z
UID:10019483-1760540400-1760547600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Yale Weiss\, "Directions in connexive logic\, past and present"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Connexive logics form a heterodox family of systems characterized by contra-classical principles of conditionality and negation including so-called Aristotle’s and Boethius’ theses. In this talk\, I survey the origins of connexive logic\, focusing on figures including Aristotle\, Chrysippus\, and Boethius\, as well as some more recent approaches\, and examine relations between them. I will argue against certain “deflationary” readings of early connexivists\, but also highlight respects in which early connexivists have sometimes been misunderstood by their modern counterparts. 
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-5/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T120000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070526Z
CREATED:20250902T103654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070526Z
UID:10019497-1760608800-1760616000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Plenary / Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-special-seminar/2025-10-16/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T143000
DTSTAMP:20250930T083933Z
CREATED:20250930T083929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T083933Z
UID:10019509-1760619600-1760625000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:ECT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Ethan Lai (St Andrews) ‘The preface paradox and inconsistent beliefs’
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-seminar-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T170000
DTSTAMP:20251113T143247Z
CREATED:20250205T195744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T143247Z
UID:10019384-1760950800-1761066000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:14th Arché Graduate Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Arché Philosophical Research Centre at the University of St Andrews is pleased to announce the 14th Arché Graduate Conference. The conference will be held on 20 & 21 October 2025 and is open to all graduate students. The conference will consist of two invited keynote speakers and eight graduate student speakers. \nIf you wish to attend this event\, please register via the following link \nhttps://buytickets.at/standrewsuniversity/1868748 \nIn person registration – 14th Arché Graduate Conference – UCO: School V \n\n \nAGC14 Provisional Programme \nMonday 20 October 2025 \n9:30 — 10:00 Welcome & Coffee \n10:00 — 10:15 Opening Remarks \n10:15 — 11:15 On Typed Reality Francis Gricius\, University of Oxford \n11:15 — 11:30 Coffee Break \n11:30 — 12:30 Expressive Lies (online) Luise Mirow\, Umeå University \n12:30 — 1:45 Lunch \n1:45 — 2:45 The One Fundamental Ground\, Andrea Lupo\, University of Lugano \n2:45 — 3:00 Coffee Break \n3:00 — 4:00 Dualism and the Hard Problem of the Many Aleksandra Kuciel\, Syracuse University \n4:00 — 4:15 Coffee Break \n4:15 — 5:15 Keynote Jonathan Schaffer\, Rutgers University \n6:30 Speaker Dinner \nTuesday 21 October 2025 \n9:30 — 10:00 Welcome & Coffee \n10:00 —11:00 Keynote Fiona Macpherson\, University of Glasgow \n11:00 —11:15 Coffee Break \n11:15 — 12:15 A Puzzle about Mind-Wandering Edvard Aviles Meza\, Cornell University \n12:15 — 1:30 Lunch \n1:30 — 2:30 Coerced Illocutions: ‘Don’t Put Words in my Mouth!’ Eirini Vryza\, University of Cambridge \n2:30 — 2:45 Coffee Break \n2:45 — 3:45 Acceptance or Suspension? A Puzzle for Hinge Epistemology\, Ben Long\, University of Warwick \n3:45 — 4:00 Coffee Break \n4:00 — 5:00 Minimalism without Creeping Bojin Zhu\, University of Vienna \n5:00 — 5:15 Closing Remarks
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/14th-arche-graduate-conference-call-for-papers/
CATEGORIES:Conference
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T150000
DTSTAMP:20250911T153855Z
CREATED:20250911T153855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T153855Z
UID:10019428-1760965200-1760972400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Cancelled ILW
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-25-7/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251020T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070212Z
CREATED:20250902T102944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070212Z
UID:10019442-1760972400-1760979600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar/2025-10-20/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T140000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070306Z
CREATED:20250902T103225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070306Z
UID:10019456-1761048000-1761055200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-48/2025-10-21/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070356Z
CREATED:20250902T103351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070356Z
UID:10019470-1761058800-1761066000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-16/2025-10-21/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251022T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251022T170000
DTSTAMP:20251016T093154Z
CREATED:20250915T134834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T093154Z
UID:10019484-1761145200-1761152400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Jonathan Schaffer\, "On What There Is\, Was\, or Could Be; Or: Modal Realism without Stares"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Plato and Pegasus do not exist\, but otherwise they have so much going for them. They are nameable\, in range of quantifiers\, and able to stand in some relations. These familiar points lead to a range of puzzles (including what Quine famously called “Plato’s beard”)\, as to how we can name\, quantifier over\, and relate to what does not exist. I propose a solution—novel as far as I know—that breaks the Quinean association between the domain and what exists in a specific way. The first ingredient is a big constant “outer” domain always including Plato\, Pegasus\, and Putin alike. The second ingredient is a semantics on which ‘exists’’ (/‘is’) is a composite of at least three distinct elements: root-exist (/root-be)\, present tense\, and indicative mood. The domain is what root-exists\, but to satisfy ‘exists’ is to root-exist in the actual present\, and thus there are things that do not exist (such as Plato and Pegasus). The end result is a system with the full domain of Lewisian modal realism\, with none of the incredulous-stare-inducing claims about there existing talking donkeys or flying horses.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-14/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T120000
DTSTAMP:20250930T152053Z
CREATED:20250427T083559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T152053Z
UID:10019405-1761213600-1761220800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar: Pree Jareonsettasin (Cambridge)\, 'Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue'
DESCRIPTION:TITLE: ‘Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue: reconciling divine determinism with creaturely freedom by distinguishing sorts of contingency’. \nABSTRACT: \nIs man free in a world created by God and over which God exercises providence? The fourteenth-century logician-mathematician-theologian Thomas Bradwardine has\, for seven centuries\, been accused of having sacrificed human freedom on the altar of divine providence. He argued that every event occurs\, by unstoppable divine will\, of necessity. Yet he is committed to non-divine moral agents contingently determining their actions. His divine determinism needs a complementarily credible account of contingent action.  \nThe main aim of this paper is to expound Bradwardine’s account of (the modal notion) contingency and trace its consequences for understanding freedom of action. I first set up the reconciliation problem and show three claims: that Bradwardine \n(1)  was\, like David Lewis\, a modal contextualist\, taking the meaning of everyday modal terms to depends on an implicit context (relevant causal facts\, including facts about causal preconditions). \n(2)  defines contingency as a causal concept. Calling an action contingent relates it to its causal circumstances: E is contingent iff given the obtaining of E’s causal preconditions\, E is evitable. \n(3)  distinguishes between two (simpliciter/unrestricted and secundum-quid/restricted) types of contingency. E is contingent simpliciter iff all of E’s causal preconditions obtain and E is evitable. E is contingent secundum-quid iff some of E’s causal preconditions obtain and E is evitable. \nI argue he solves the reconciliation problem through his insight that when our actions are considered to be up to us\, we don’t consider God as their causal agent (even though He is). Accordingly\, our everyday moral-responsibility-relevant use of modal terms is implicitly indexicalised to a domain of causal facts restricted to exclude the causal fact of God’s unstoppable causation of all events. Assume that a free action won’t inevitably occur given the obtainment of its non-divine causal preconditions. It follows\, by Bradwardine’s definition of restricted contingency\, that free action is contingent secundum-quid. \nA significant upshot is that the seven-century-old accusation that Bradwardine’s commitment to theological fatalism entails an error-theoretic account of creaturely freedom is unfounded. His deterministic worldview does not entail holding a proto-Hobbesian/Calvinist/Frankfurtian view of freedom. The future is (metaphysically\, not merely phenomenologically) open\, because our fellow creatures cannot compel us to freely act.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-seminar-pree-jareonsettasin/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group,Plenary session,Speaker visit
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T143000
DTSTAMP:20250930T085137Z
CREATED:20250902T103755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T085137Z
UID:10019512-1761224400-1761229800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:ECT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-seminar/2025-10-23/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251027T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251027T110000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Buridan's treatise on suppositions\, chapter 4
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-7/2025-10-27/
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:20251027T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251027T150000
DTSTAMP:20250924T115746Z
CREATED:20250911T154059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T115746Z
UID:10019429-1761570000-1761577200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Anna-Sofia Maurin (Gothenburg) "Flatworldism: A—Reluctant—Defense"
DESCRIPTION:Flatworldism is a view on the nature of reality according to which reality’s inhabitants are not sub-dividable into the more and less fundamental such that what is more fundamental (at least sometimes) makes what is less fundamental exist and be the way it is. Flatworldism is a view I have so far tended to reject in favor of its opposite: (what I will call) The Layered Conception of Reality. This conception of reality—I have told myself (and whoever wants to listen)—is clearly preferable to Flatworldism. But (why) is it preferable? In this paper\, I take a first step towards answering that question by defending Flatworldism against some of the arguments that have been raised against it.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-25-8/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251027T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251027T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070212Z
CREATED:20250902T102944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070212Z
UID:10019443-1761577200-1761584400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar/2025-10-27/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
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