Epistemology Seminar: Paolo Savino, “Nonclosure and Scepticism”
The sceptical paradox arises from the tension between three appealing claims: (1) that one cannot know the negation of a sceptical hypothesis, (2) that if...
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Talk by Ethan Landes on “Jargon”.
Edgecliffe G03Abstract This talk will explore the causes, upsides, and drawbacks of adjusting or introducing concepts and language for the purposes of inquiry. While technical concepts...
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Language and Mind Seminar: James Shaw (Pittsburgh) – Kripkean Necessity A Posteriori: Some Doubts
Edgecliffe G03I discuss an unusual technique for learning metaphysical necessities that I call the "Procedure of Imaginative Transfer" and note some ways it complicates Kripke's case...
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Metaphysics Seminar: Talk by Travis Manuel on ” Spacetime and Objects are not in Harmony”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract Spacetime has structure, and objects have structure. A collection of principles, known as harmony principles, posit that the mereologies of the two structures behave...
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Medieval Logic Reading Group: Paul of Venice, Quadratura
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Semantics/Arche Logic Group: Fine’s ‘Angellic Content’
Edgecliffe G03This week, Aaron Cotnoir will lead discussion on Fine's 'Angellic Content'.
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Super Special Seminar: Talk by JC Beall (UConn) on “From Possible Worlds to Paraconsistency (Or: Paraconsistent Logic for the Millions)”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract The dominant view in contemporary philosophy is that possible worlds are classically closed – closed under classical logic. (If A is true at a...
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Epistemology Seminar, Miguel Egler on Friedman’s “Inquiry and Belief” (2019)
Edgecliffe G03Miguel will lead us through a discussion of Jane Friedman's recent paper "Inquiry and Belief" (Nous, 2019). Available here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nous.12222
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Talk by Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina) on “Inescapable concepts”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract In this talk I would like to draw attention to a class of concepts, inescapable concepts, and their significance for philosophy, in particular metaphysics....
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Language and Mind Seminar: Michael Tye (Texas): The Eleventh Problem of Consciousness (and How to Solve it).
Edgecliffe G03Abstract: There are strong reasons for holding that consciousness is a sharp phenomenon and that it appeared on the scene suddenly. There are also strong...