7 events found.
Week of Events
May 30, 2022
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Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave, Insolubles
May 30, 2022
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Metaphysics Seminar Matteo Nizzardo (University of St. Andrews)
Metaphysics Seminar Matteo Nizzardo (University of St. Andrews)
Title: The cost of being an Anti-Haecceitist Abstract: Haecceitism is the thesis that there are qualitatively indiscernible and yet distinct possibilities. I argue that Haecceitism...
May 31, 2022
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Language & Mind Seminar: Francois Récanati (Collège de France)
Language & Mind Seminar: Francois Récanati (Collège de France)
Judgment First According to Peter Geach, ‘a proposition may occur in discourse now asserted, now unasserted’. Geach calls this ‘the Frege point’. It conflicts with...
May 31, 2022
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Mari Mikkola (Amsterdam) “Engineering Ideologically Defective Concepts”
Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Mari Mikkola (Amsterdam) “Engineering Ideologically Defective Concepts”
Abstract: One major motivation for conceptual engineering is that some ways in which we think and talk about reality are defective. Mona Simion, however, argues...
June 1, 2022
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Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Francisca Silva, “Questions and Gender Questioning”
Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Francisca Silva, “Questions and Gender Questioning”
This week's seminar will be a talk by Francisca Silva titled "Questions and Gender Questioning". It will be a hybrid seminar and you can attend...
June 2, 2022
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Super Special
June 2, 2022
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Epistemology Seminar: Petronella Randell (St Andrews) “The dilemma of transformative decision-making” [Hybrid]
Epistemology Seminar: Petronella Randell (St Andrews) “The dilemma of transformative decision-making” [Hybrid]
Abstract: Transformative decisions are almost always framed as a problem for decision theory. However, it seems that the problem has no real bite when presented...