Epistemology Seminar: Ethan: What do we know about aliens given that we’ve never met one?
The talk is entitled: What do we know about aliens given that we've never met one? The field of astrobiology faces an interesting epistemic challenge....
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Metaphysics: Robin Dembroff: “Beyond the (Theoretical) Binary: Genderqueer and Political Gender Categories”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract: Philosophers want to know what gender is. But, without fail, metaphysical approaches to this question have focused almost exclusively on the binary gender categories men and women. By...
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Conceptual Engineering: Patrick Greenough on “The Old Problem Problem”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract: The Old Problem Problem is the problem that any Conceptual Engineering approach to philosophy leaves our old philosophical problems completely unaddressed. I look at various...
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Epistemology Seminar: Marvin on Pluralism
Edgecliffe G03According to one of the most influential theories of truth – alethic-pluralism - what makes a belief or a proposition true can vary depending on...
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Super Special Seminar: Sara Bernstein: “Could a Middle Level be the Most Fundamental?”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract: Debates over what is fundamental assume that what is most fundamental must be either a “top” level (roughly, the biggest or highest-level thing), or...
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Language and Mind Seminar: Juan-Carlos Gomez (St Andrews)
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Metaphysics Reading Group: Daniel Nolan: Time and Parsimony
Edgecliffe G03Abstract: Parsimony principles can play a variety of roles in the philosophy of space, time and spacetime. In this paper I will suggest that almost...
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Arché Logic and Semantics Seminar: tba
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