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  • Metaphysics Seminar Francisca Silva (University of St Andrews)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Title: Sets as fusions of materially-equivalent rigid embodiments Abstract: Albeit having some initial plausibility, most philosophers today would reject the thesis that members of sets...

  • Metaphysics Seminar Francesca Poggiolesi (Univeristy of Paris)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Title: Explanatory (or Grounding) Proofs: Philosophical Framework, Core Ideas, Results Abstract: When it comes to the question of what proofs serve for, since the antiquity two possible answers...

  • Metaphysics Seminar Lorraine Keller (Saint Joseph’s University)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Title: The Access Problem for Act-type Theories of Propositions Abstract: Recent work on propositions has seen the rise of act-type theories, according to which propositions...

  • Metaphysics Seminar Thomas Ferguson (City University of New York)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Title: Intensional Subject-Matter in Subsystems of Analytic Implication Abstract: Although one tends to think of truth or falsity as the predominant semantic feature with which...

  • Metaphysics Seminar Frederik Andersen (University of St Andrews)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Title: Logical Akrasia Abstract: The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it introduces the concept logical akrasia (by analogy to epistemic akrasia). Second, it discusses...

  • Metaphysics Seminar Anthi Solaki (University of Amsterdam)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Title: Impossible Worlds in Dynamic Epistemic Logic Abstract: Epistemic Logic, as a spinoff of normal modal logics, suffers from the problem of logical omniscience: its agents are...

  • Metaphysics Seminar Jace Snodgrass (University of St Andrews)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Title: Properties and Their Parts Abstract: I will present some very early ideas on a hyperintensional theory of properties that I am attempting to work...

  • Metaphysics Seminar Greg Restall (University of St Andrews)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Title: Worlds: Possible and Impossible Abstract: In this talk, I’ll reflect on the role of worlds—both possible worlds and impossible worlds—both in the semantics of various kinds...