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SUMMARY:Language and Mind Seminar: Reading Session 3
DESCRIPTION:Our last reading session is to read Chapter 7 and 8 of Williamson’s book\, Vagueness (Williamson\, 1994). Sabina will be leading the discussion on Chapter 7 and Victor will be on Chapter 8.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-19/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231107T150000
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SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Emilia Wilson (Cardiff) - in-person
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Role of ‘Topic’ in Demographic Generalisations & Algorithmic (In)justice \n\nAbstract: Representations of the world sometimes seem both accurate and objectionable\, as in the case of many demographic generalisations. For example: (i) women are more caring than men; (ii) Black Americans are eight times more likely to have homicide convictions than white Americans; and (iii) women are underrepresented in STEM because they don’t apply. While there is a kernel of truth in these statements\, they are also prejudicial. The apparent tension between their ethical and epistemic evaluation is especially pressing in light of growing use of predictive algorithms. I aim to develop a novel account how these statements may be both morally and epistemically flawed by utilising work on ‘topic’ and Questions-Under-Discussion from linguistics and philosophy. By examining how the same informational contents may be structured differently – with respect to attention\, relevance\, and inquiry – we can uncover subtle yet significant epistemic flaws in putatively accurate statements. This offers a unified theoretical basis for evaluating these statements and predictions\, with the consequence that the moral and epistemic evaluation of an algorithm cannot be isolated from its implementation.\n 
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
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SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Patrick Winther-Larsen (St-Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Vulnerability and Exposure: On Untimely Blame and Public Blame \nContent warning: certain sensitive subjects\, including serious illness\, bereavrment\, and sexual harassment\, will be (briefly) referenced in this talk. Though I don’t plan on giving any detailed examples\, some might nonetheless find this distressing. \nAbstract: For this work-in-progress talk\, I will explore the idea that blame can be expressed (i) at the ‘wrong’ time and/or (ii) at the ‘wrong’ place. In essence\, I’ll consider two possible procedural norms of blame. \nWith respect to (i)\, I give an account of ‘untimely blame’\, on which an instance of blame can be ‘untimely’ if the blamer fails to take into account the vulnerability of the wrongdoer (i.e.\, the target of blame). Less abstractly\, consider cases where an agent has committed a wrongdoing\, and is thus blameworthy\, but they receive bad medical news or suffer a bereavement sometime following the relevant wrongdoing. In light of their vulnerability\, it may sometimes be inappropriate to blame them while they are in this state\, which may in some cases be permanent. \nWith respect to (ii)\, I consider ‘public blame’\, that is\, instances where blame is expressed before an ‘audience’ (paradigmatically\, third parties)\, and may or may not be expressed in the presence of the relevant perpetrator. This includes online blaming\, which is standardly taken to be problematic on the grounds that the audience might ‘pile on’ and thus render blame disproportionate. Against others\, I will suggest that ‘exposing’ someone to an audience\, and thus rendering them vulnerable to their blame\, is itself sometimes objectionable\, regardless of whether the audience joins in.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-6/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Daniel Nolan (University of Nortre Dame)
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Hyperintensional Mind \nAbstract: Agents do not automatically believe all the necessary equivalents of the things they believe; and they do not always desire necessary equivalents to the same degree. Mental contents must be distinguished in a more fine-grained way (“hyperintensionally” rather than “merely intensionally”). Doing so faces a foundational challenge\, however. One influential functionalist or “analytic functionalist” picture of offers an account of the contents of agents’ attitudes in terms of agents’ behaviour across variations in possible circumstances. This “modalist” picture is usually involves a commitment to treating contents as sets of possible worlds\, sets of possible individuals\, or some sort of construction out of these. This paper will argue that a modalist approach can be attractively developed to handle a richer range of contents\, provided we equip ourselves with hyperintensional metaphysical resources. The resulting understanding suggests a picture of contents as sets of worlds rather than as structured contents\, and offers some guidance on the question of the fine-grainedness of belief and desire.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-18/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
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SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar: No Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We use the plenary seminar time slot on occasions when we have a meeting of wider interest to the whole Arché community.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-seminar/2023-11-09/
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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Lara Buchak (Princeton) (co-hosted with CEPPA) "Faith\, Authority\, and Epistemic Communities"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority about what to believe or what to do even when doing so goes against one’s own reasoning. Indeed\, such deference is rational in typical cases in which individuals treat others as authorities: for example\, experts in a domain\, interpersonal advisors\, and religious traditions. I explain the interplay between authority\, reason\, and disagreement\, and how rational faith gives rise to epistemic communities and governs their encounters with each other.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-6-6/
LOCATION:Online Meeting via Teams
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