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SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar: Christoph Hoerl
DESCRIPTION:Memory and the feeling of pastness\n\nRecent accounts of episodic memory have revived some ideas familiar from the ‘empiricist theory of memory’\, which go back at least as far as Hume. New versions of the empiricist theory cite two separate bodies of recent research in psychology in support of thinking of episodic memory along empiricist lines: One is taken to demonstrate the existence of an imagistic ingredient that remembering shares\, e.g.\, with episodic future thinking or sensory imagining; the other that of an affective ingredient (e.g.\, a ‘feeling of pastness’) that distinguishes remembering from these other cognitive activities. I will provide a sketch of the empiricist theory\, taking Russell’s account of memory in The Analysis of Mind as my guide. I will then offer some reasons for thinking that new versions of it found in the current literature on episodic memory are subject to much the same criticisms as their more traditional predecessors.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/language-and-mind-seminar-38/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar
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SUMMARY:FPST Seminar - Tommy Curry (Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Phallicism as Racism against the Male Target: Dehumanization\, Misandric Aggression\, and the Splitting of Gender. \nAbstract: Much of the current theory explaining the vulnerability of racialized outgroup males focus on death. In Adam Jones’s (2000) account of gendercide as well as Jim Sidanius’s (1999) theory of Social Dominance\, outgroup or subordinate males become specifically targeted by dominant male groups for death. This targeting of subordinate males is interpreted as a specific sexual violence as genocides in particular\, but many low level conflicts\, kill civilian battle age men from 15-55 first. But what function then does the rape of subordinate outgroup men serve in these conflicts? This paper will argue that the rape of racialized males in slavery\, Jim Crow\, the Armenian Genocide\, Gaza\, and the Holocaust indicate that sexual violence has always been an integral part of patriarchal societies’ domination of lesser men. Rather than understanding the rape these men as an exception\, this paper will argue that the rape of racialized males\, and their simultaneous construction as the rapist is (and has been) the most visible and dominant process of racial-outgroup male subjugation throughout the 20th century.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/fpst-seminar-12-9/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240619T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240619T170000
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar x FPST Seminar: Marta Sznajder (University of Vienna)
DESCRIPTION:Janina Hosiasson’s logic of rational degrees of belief: subjective probability before and after Ramsey \nAbstract: \nIn 1931\, Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum proposed a proto-decision-theoretic answer to the value of evidence problem\, originally posed by C. D. Broad and eventually solved by I. J. Good in the context of Savage’s decision theory. As an influence on her paper she credited Frank Ramsey\, whose then unpublished “Truth and Probability” she had read shortly after Ramsey’s death in 1930. But Hosiasson also insisted that she had “previously thought independently on similar lines”. \nThis raises two questions. First\, what is it exactly that Hosiasson-Lindenbaum took herself to be in agreement on with Ramsey\, or what part of her approach has been inspired by his paper? And second: what did she “previously [think] independently”? In the talk\, I will try to answer the two questions\, drawing on Hosiasson-Lindenbaum’s work published before her contact with Ramsey’s work\, as well as shortly after (and which has not received any attention to date). \nThis reconstruction of Hosiasson’s early philosophical views contributes to our understanding of how the different philosophical interpretations of probability that took shape in the first half of the 20th century developed in their early stages. Hosiasson  eventually saw herself as working on the logic of rational degrees of belief\, and was not invested in any external justifications of the rules of such logic\, especially ones which would ground it through pragmatic arguments. At the same time\, while she built on Keynes’s formal results about a posteriori probabilities\, Hosiasson does not appear to have taken on board his interpretation of probability as an objective\, semantic relation the access to which is direct\, but not always possible. Hosiasson turns out to be much closer in her approach to what we have come to think of the late stages of Rudolf Carnap’s inductive logic project—which is an interesting footnote to the history of the field\, given the influence that late Hosiassson’s work had on the early inductive logic of Carnap.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-19-13/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group,Philosophy & Social Theory Arché Seminar
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SUMMARY:Plenary Discussion Brunch with Marta Sznajder (University of Vienna)
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Writing the history of women in analytic philosophy – how and why?
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/plenary-seminar-4/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T143000
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SUMMARY:Epistemology Seminar: Viviane Fairbank (St Andrews & Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Viviane Fairbank (St Andrews & Stirling) \nShould Science Journalists Know About Science?\nDespite scientific evidence to the contrary\, many journalists in the 2000s reported on one researcher’s unfounded claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. They treated the issue as an open question that required equal consideration of “both sides”: those who thought there was a causal link between vaccines and autism\, and those who did not. Many commentators blamed journalists for the avoidable\, unfortunate results that followed\, including measles outbreaks among unvaccinated children in the US and UK. \nThe inclination is to interpret the MMR-vaccine case as showing not the impossibility of good journalism on politicized scientific issues\, but rather the dangers of bad journalism: if science journalists had done their job properly\, the idea goes\, their work would have served to illuminate scientific knowledge instead of obfuscating it. This prompts the question: In what sense did journalists fail to grasp the relevant science regarding vaccines and autism\, as their critics have claimed? And\, more generally\, to what epistemic norms ought we hold science journalists today? I call this the Epistemic Challenge for Science Journalism (ECSJ). \nIn this paper\, I aim to answer the ECSJ by bringing together insights from practicing journalists and journalism educators\, scholars of science communication\, and epistemologists. In §1\, I detail the MMR-vaccine case and outline the Epistemic Challenge for Science Journalism. In §2\, I present the dominant answer to the ECSJ in the science communication and journalism education literature\, which I call the Knowledge-Based Solution\, and I argue that it is unconvincing: knowledge of science is neither sufficient nor necessary for good science journalism. In §3\, I propose an alternative\, which I call the Confirmation-Based Solution\, and I show that it is able to make sense of the MMR-vaccine case and others in a satisfying way. In §4\, I turn to recent debates about journalistic objectivity\, and I argue that the Confirmation-Based Solution can respond to important concerns voiced by journalists and their audiences. §5 discusses my proposal in the context of philosophical debates about epistemic norms of assertion. §6 concludes.
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/epistemology-seminar-7-7/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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SUMMARY:Unity Talk: Gabriel Uzquiano (In-Person)
DESCRIPTION:Title: A Theory of Location \nAbstract: TBC
URL:https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/unity-talk-gabriel-uzquiano-in-person/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104\, University of St Andrews\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Unity Seminar
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