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SUMMARY:Medieval Logic Seminar: Ralph Strode\, Treatise on Consequences
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URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/medieval-logic-seminar-4-2/2023-11-13/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231114T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231114T140000
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SUMMARY:Language and Mind Seminar: Yair Pinto (University of Amsterdam)
DESCRIPTION:Title: The grounding problem in language and reality \nAbstract: Philosophy of language has long struggled with the symbol-grounding problem of meaning. If symbols are only defined relationally\, that is\, in terms of each other\, then how do they ever mean something? Learning that ∫ connects ∩ to ₺ seems to say little about the meaning of ∫\, ∩ and ₺. \nA similar grounding problem exists for algorithms. Searle highlighted this in the Chinese Room thought experiment. Computationally transforming meaningless input (0’s and 1’s) into meaningless output (other 0’s and 1’s) seems insufficient to generate meaning. \nFor both symbols and algorithms it could be argued that consciousness is needed to infuse grounding into the system. Recent evidence suggests that these issues may not be entirely philosophical. Surprisingly\, in the context of quantum physics\, it has recently been shown that the description of unmeasured reality always requires complex numbers – complex numbers contain the square root of -1 and must be transformed to become a real number. Yet\, observables\, such as mass\, charge and position\, can be described entirely with real numbers. This suggests that unobserved reality is “pre-real” and needs the infusion of an observation to become actual. \nIn the current talk I will discuss how the seemingly unrelated grounding problems between language\, algorithms and reality may\, in fact\, be related. Moreover\, I will outline how this may lead to testable predictions in these domains. This may have empirical consequences for the seemingly unrelated fields of quantum physics and large language models. \nBio: Yair Pinto is an assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam with a background in Physics (MSc) and Cognitive Psychology (PhD). He has received several high-profile grants both European (a Dutch Rubicon grant\, a European Marie-Curie grant) and American (a large Templeton grant). He has published his work in many prestigious journals\, among them JEP:General\, Psychological Science and Brain. His main interests are visual perception\, consciousness\, split-brain patients and free will.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-20/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231114T150000
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SUMMARY:FPST Seminar: Emilia Wilson (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Activist Slogans and ‘Reframing the Debate’ \nAbstract: This talk will examine the role of slogans in social justice movements and how we should understand their meaning. Social justice movements often utilise slogans and claims which putatively clash with received common sense. One way of understanding these claims is as what Cantalamessa terms ‘conceptual activism’: the role of claims like ‘disability pride’ is to challenge and destabilise the hegemonic common sense\, for strategic political ends\, rather than to be descriptively accurate. On such views\, these campaigns have pragmatic political goals rather than epistemic/descriptive goals. I will argue against these views. Drawing on analyses of ideology as both epistemically and politically pernicious\, I contend that such campaigns have both political and epistemic aims. I aim to show that this better captures the role of these slogans by attending to historical case studies. 
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-7/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231115T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231115T173000
DTSTAMP:20231109T130746Z
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Peter Hylton (Boston University and University of Illinois\, Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Carnap on Metaphysics\, Before and After 1932: The Importance of Tolerance \nAbstract: Late in 1932\, Carnap accepts the Principle of Tolerance. This makes a fundamental difference to his philosophy\, although that is not always readily apparent in his writings. The present paper illustrates this claim by examining his opposition to metaphysics. It discusses his pre-1932 rejection of metaphysics and emphasizes the idea that that rejection is based on assumptions which might themselves be thought of as metaphysical. Accepting the Principle of Tolerance enables Carnap to avoid those assumptions\, but it also undercuts the basis of Carnap’s earlier opposition to metaphysics. The rest of the paper considers how\, and to what extent\, the post-1932 Carnap can give a rationale for opposing metaphysics. \nPlease note that this is an online talk on Microsoft Teams which will also be live-streamed in G03 (Edgecliffe).
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-12/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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SUMMARY:Arché Plenary Seminar: Dr Sara Uckelman (Durham) Why the History of Logic [and Philosophy!] Should Matter to  Modern Logicians [and Philosophers!]
DESCRIPTION:Title: Why the History of Logic [and Philosophy!] Should Matter to Modern Logicians [and Philosophers!]Abstract: The starting point of this talk is the present-day state of logic\, a field which is ever expanding and becoming more inclusive and yet which still presents systemic barriers of access to certain groups of people.  As logicians [and philosophers!] we think there is value in the study and practice of logic [and philosophy!]\, so patterns of exclusion should concern us\, in two ways: \n\nWhere did these exclusionary structures come from?\nWhat can we do to get rid of them?\n\nA lot of work has been done in philosophy on the latter question\, as witnessed by important work done in canon-revision.  But the former question is much less often discussed\, and yet\, in the context of logic at least\, is crucially important to understanding where we are today and how we got here: How logic\, or the lack thereof\, is the tool by which exclusion and inclusion can be and has been performed.  Only by looking at historical answers to “who gets to have access to logic and why” can we fully understand where we are at today.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-seminar-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephen Read":MAILTO:arche@st-andrews.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Discussion group led by Patrick Winther-Larsen (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:We will be reading excerpts from José Medina’s The Epistemology of Protest (2023).
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-6-7/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
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