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UID:10019416-1762162200-1762167600@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-7/2025-11-03/
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:20251103T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251103T150000
DTSTAMP:20250902T102712Z
CREATED:20250902T102712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T102712Z
UID:10019430-1762174800-1762182000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-25/2025-11-03/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251103T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251103T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070212Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070212Z
UID:10019444-1762182000-1762189200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar/2025-11-03/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T140000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070306Z
CREATED:20250902T103225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070306Z
UID:10019458-1762257600-1762264800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-48/2025-11-04/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070356Z
CREATED:20250902T103351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070356Z
UID:10019472-1762268400-1762275600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-16/2025-11-04/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T170000
DTSTAMP:20251028T091806Z
CREATED:20250908T082952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T091806Z
UID:10019486-1762354800-1762362000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Jason Carter\, "Plato on What is Not:  Negation and Non-Being in the Theaetetus and Sophist"
DESCRIPTION:Quine\, in ‘On What There Is’\, discusses a problem that he calls the ‘Platonic riddle of nonbeing’. The riddle is this: ‘Nonbeing must in some sense be; otherwise what is it that there is not?’ (Quine 1948\, 21). Take Pegasus\, the flying stallion of Bellerophon\, and the statement\, ‘Pegasus does not exist’. On the one hand\, if the word ‘Pegasus’ does not have a referent\, it seems that there is nothing there to negate; on the other\, if it does have a referent\, it seems that we are forced to affirm and deny Pegasus’ existence\, which is incoherent. Quine suggests that Plato grasped the second horn of this dilemma\, nicknaming it ‘Plato’s beard’. According to this solution\, empty names refer to subsistent entities\, that is\, entities that have some form of being\, but do not exist. But was Quine right that Plato had a beard? In this paper\, I set out the Platonic riddle of non-being in the way that Plato did in the Theaetetus and the Sophist – not as a riddle about negative existential statements in particular\, but as a riddle about how negation is possible in the first place. I argue that Plato’s own solution to the riddle turns on rejecting the view that predicating non-being of something is an assertion of its non-existence\, or its being nothing\, in favour of the view that to negate is to assert a relative difference between an existing subject and its negated predicate. I argue that\, given some of Plato’s assumptions about the non-transparency of reference\, his difference interpretation of negation can solve the Platonic riddle of nonbeing\, but not in the tangled way that Quine alleged.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-6/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T120000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070526Z
CREATED:20250902T103654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070526Z
UID:10019500-1762423200-1762430400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Plenary / Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-special-seminar/2025-11-06/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T143000
DTSTAMP:20250930T085137Z
CREATED:20250902T103755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T085137Z
UID:10019514-1762434000-1762439400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:ECT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-seminar/2025-11-06/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251110T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251110T110000
DTSTAMP:20251125T222920Z
CREATED:20250902T101400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251125T222920Z
UID:10019417-1762767000-1762772400@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-7/2025-11-10/
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:20251110T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251110T150000
DTSTAMP:20250911T154219Z
CREATED:20250911T154219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T154219Z
UID:10019431-1762779600-1762786800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Lowe (2003) "Identity\, Individuality\, and Unity"
DESCRIPTION:Pre-Read session on Lowe\, E.J. (2003). ‘Identity\, Individuality\, and Unity’\, Philosophy\, Vol. 78\, No. 305\, 321–336. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3752058
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-25-9/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251110T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251110T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070212Z
CREATED:20250902T102944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070212Z
UID:10019445-1762786800-1762794000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar/2025-11-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251111T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251111T140000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070306Z
CREATED:20250902T103225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070306Z
UID:10019459-1762862400-1762869600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-48/2025-11-11/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251111T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251111T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070356Z
CREATED:20250902T103351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070356Z
UID:10019473-1762873200-1762880400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-16/2025-11-11/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251112T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251112T150000
DTSTAMP:20251105T140342Z
CREATED:20250908T083024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T140342Z
UID:10019487-1762952400-1762959600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Franz Berto\, Bestimmte Negation (Or: What Is Hegel’s Dialectic?)
DESCRIPTION:I think Hegel’s dialectic is\, in Brandomian fashion\, a very inferentialist theory of concepts. There’s conspicuous textual evidence that the majority of theoretical claims in the Phenomenology\, the Science of Logic\, the Encyclopaedia\, are about conceptual connections. Conceptual contents are individuated by the connections with the concepts they entail and which entail them. Since theoretical as well as ordinary language expressions can be governed by incoherent inferential links\, dialectic has to reshape them (one may see it as 19th century conceptual engineering). In particular\, concepts are shaped by relations of modal incompatibility or exclusion. So Hegel claims in the Science of Logic that the essence of dialectic lies in a certain idea of negation: the ‘quite simple insight’ of ‘the logical principle that the negative is just as much positive’\, is all we need to understand dialectic. I propose that what he calls bestimmte Negation\, determinate or ‘positive’ negation\, is such modal exclusion\, out of which blosse Negation\, mere negation\, i.e.\, the contradictory-forming operator\, is abstracted as the minimal incompatible.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-7/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T120000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070526Z
CREATED:20250902T103654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070526Z
UID:10019501-1763028000-1763035200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Plenary / Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-special-seminar/2025-11-13/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T143000
DTSTAMP:20250930T084624Z
CREATED:20250930T084620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T084624Z
UID:10019526-1763038800-1763044200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:ECT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Tianxiang Xu (St Andrews) ‘Blame’
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-seminar-5/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251117T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251117T110000
DTSTAMP:20251125T222920Z
CREATED:20250902T101400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251125T222920Z
UID:10019418-1763371800-1763377200@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-7/2025-11-17/
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:20251117T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251117T150000
DTSTAMP:20250911T154310Z
CREATED:20250911T154309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T154310Z
UID:10019432-1763384400-1763391600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Meirav (2003) Wholes\, Sums\, and Unities
DESCRIPTION:Pre-Read session on Meirav\, A. (2003). Wholes\, Sums and Unities\, Kluwer. [Chs 2-3].
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-25-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251117T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251117T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070212Z
CREATED:20250902T102944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070212Z
UID:10019446-1763391600-1763398800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar/2025-11-17/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251118T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251118T140000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070306Z
CREATED:20250902T103225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070306Z
UID:10019460-1763467200-1763474400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-48/2025-11-18/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251118T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251118T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070356Z
CREATED:20250902T103351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070356Z
UID:10019474-1763478000-1763485200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-16/2025-11-18/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251119T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251119T180000
DTSTAMP:20251114T144641Z
CREATED:20250908T083058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251114T144641Z
UID:10019488-1763568000-1763575200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Soroush Rafiee Rad\, "Probabilities with Gaps and Gluts"
DESCRIPTION:Belnap-Dunn logic (BD)\, sometimes also known as First Degree Entailment\, is a four-valued propositional logic that complements the classical truth values of True and False with two non-classical truth values Neither and Both. The latter two are to account for the possibility of the available information being incomplete or providing contradictory evidence. We present a probabilistic extension of BD that permits agents to have probabilistic beliefs about the truth and falsity of a proposition. We briefly look into the axiomatization for the framework defined and also identify policies for conditionalization and aggregation.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-8/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T120000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070526Z
CREATED:20250902T103654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070526Z
UID:10019502-1763632800-1763640000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Plenary / Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-special-seminar/2025-11-20/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T143000
DTSTAMP:20250930T084745Z
CREATED:20250930T084742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T084745Z
UID:10019525-1763643600-1763649000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:ECT Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Amiya Haskes (St Andrews) Title TBC
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/ect-seminar-6/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251124T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251124T110000
DTSTAMP:20251125T222920Z
CREATED:20250902T101400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251125T222920Z
UID:10019419-1763976600-1763982000@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-7/2025-11-24/
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:20251124T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251124T150000
DTSTAMP:20251120T120649Z
CREATED:20250911T154349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251120T120649Z
UID:10019433-1763989200-1763996400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unity Seminar: Will Moorfoot (UCL) "Morphing Ground"
DESCRIPTION:  \nAbstract: Grounding and causation are both determination relations. Causation is typically understood to relate events through time\, such that causes determine their effects. The throwing of the rock causes the window to break. Grounding is typically understood to relate facts at a single time\, such that grounds determine their groundees. The microphysical constitution of the window grounds the fact that the window is fragile. Some philosophers have suspected that there is a deep unity between grounding and causation (e.g.\, grounding is a kind of causation)\, and that this unity sheds light on the connection between science and philosophy. This paper offers a new account of the grounding-causation unity\, according to which there is no sharp boundary between the two relations. Instead\, grounding and causation exist on a continuum. The account solves problems faced by traditional unity views and offers a novel way to understand the methodological continuity between science and philosophy.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-seminar-25-11/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251124T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251124T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070212Z
CREATED:20250902T102944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070212Z
UID:10019447-1763996400-1764003600@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:WIKI Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/wiki-seminar/2025-11-24/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:WIKI Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251125T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251125T140000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070306Z
CREATED:20250902T103225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070306Z
UID:10019461-1764072000-1764079200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-48/2025-11-25/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251125T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251125T170000
DTSTAMP:20250915T070356Z
CREATED:20250902T103351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T070356Z
UID:10019475-1764082800-1764090000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:FPST Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-16/2025-11-25/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251126T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251126T180000
DTSTAMP:20251117T150254Z
CREATED:20250908T083123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251117T150254Z
UID:10019489-1764172800-1764180000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Justin D'Ambrosio\, "The Meaning of 'Means'"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Semantic theories are supposed to be theories of meaning\, so ascriptions of meaning should play a role in guiding and constraining our semantic theories. To play this role\, however\, we need to know the meaning of “means” itself. In this paper I develop a semantics for the verb “means\,” as it is used to specify the meanings of natural language expressions. According to the view I propose—which I call the type-polymorphism view—the type of “means” is flexible\, and shifts to accept whatever type of expression occurs in its complement. I formalize this view in a system that extends standard type theory to accommodate polymorphism: System F. I go on to argue that proponents of higher-order approaches to natural language semantics—who state their semantic theories in a higher-order metalanguage—can and should see themselves as stating their semantic theories using the verb “means.” But this approach is not available to proponents of first-order\, model-theoretic approaches to semantic theorizing. As a consequence\, I argue\, only higher-order approaches are genuinely offering theories of meaning.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-9/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
END:VEVENT
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