Week of Events
Metaphysics Seminar: Talk by Manuel Lechthaler on “CAI, Universalism and Gunk”.
Abstract Philosophers disagree whether Composition as Identity entails mereological universalism. Bricker (2016) has recently considered an argument which concludes that Composition as Identity supports universalism. The key step...
Language and Mind Seminar: Patrik Engisch (University of Fribourg, CH): Fiction, Imagination, and Narrative
The notion of a propositional imagination has been said to play a crucial role in an account of the distinction between fiction and non-fiction: fictions...
Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Talk by Ethan Landes on “What Even Are ‘Intuitions’ Though?”.
Abstract Since the dawn of the contemporary intuition debate 20 years ago, lots of progress has been made on the epistemology of intuitions. At the...
Epistemology Seminar: Claire Field, “A Priori Defeat and Misleading Evidence”
I argue that, contrary to what others have thought (Jonathan Ichikawa, Benjamin Jarvis), mechanisms of evidential support and defeat work in much the same way...
Super Special Seminar: Franz Berto The Fundamental Problem of Logical Omniscience
Abstract: We propose a solution to the problem of logical omniscience in what we take to be its fundamental version: as concerning arbitrary agents –...