Week of Events
Workshop on the History of Arabic Logic
The Workshop on History of Arabic Logic has two main aims: to make better known the richness and importance of Arabic logic, that is, logic...
Language and Mind Seminar: Amr Salih on Derek Ball’s “Relativism, Metasemantics,and the Future”
Next Tuesday (May 7th) Amr Salih will lead the discussion on Derek Ball's "Relativism, Metasemantics, and the Future". The discussion will focus on the introduction...
Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Peter Hawke & Tom Schoonen (Amsterdam) on “Are Gettier cases disturbing?”
Abstract We contrast prominent naturalistic lines of research on the traditional method of cases (MoC), exemplified by Williamson (2007) and Machery (2017). Both philosophers hold that MoC is best...
Epistemology Seminar: Tom Schoonen (Amsterdam), “Concrete Imagination and Epistemology of Possibility”
Recently, some people have suggested that in order for imagination to be a useful guide to knowledge of what is possible, one has to imagine...
Super Special Seminar: Dr Graziana Ciola (Durham), “Marsilius of Inghen (and Albert of Saxony) on Ampliation to the Imaginable”
Abstract: In this talk, I examine the nature and role of imaginables, i.e. some kinds of impossible non-entities, in Marsilius of Inghen’s logic and natural...