Breaking Down the Barriers: Applied Conceptual Engineering (ACE)
DESCRIPTION Conceptual engineering focuses on how to best assess and improve our conceptual apparatuses. In less than half a decade, it has become a...
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Workshop on Theories of Paradox in the Middle Ages: Recordings
Recordings of nine of the talks given in October at the Workshop on Theories of Paradox in the Middle Ages are now available on the...
Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
Jessica Brown, Arché Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship worth £118,764 to investigate the...
Publication: Stephen Read
Stephen Read’s article, ‘The Rule of Contradictory Pairs, Insolubles and Validity‘ has appeared this month (November 2020) in Vivarium 58(4), 275-304: The article was prepared...
Prof Franz Berto awarded honorary Chaire Cardinal Mercier 2020-21
Prof Franz Berto has been awarded the honorary Chaire Cardinal Mercier (Cardinal Mercier Chair) 2020-21 at the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie at UCLouvain. Prof Berto...
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Conceptual Engineering
This semester the Conceptual Engineering Group meets from 3pm until 5pm each Tuesday.
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Epistemology: Current Themes
The ECT Group has a broad range of interests in epistemology and cognate fields.
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Language and Mind
Research in the L&M group focuses on philosophical issues about language and mind.
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Logic of Conceivability
‘What would happen if...?’. The cognitive importance of this activity is hardly overestimated.
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Medieval Logic Research Group
The Medieval Logic Seminar meets during Arché semesters from 10.15 until 11.45 each Friday in the Arché Seminar Room. Theories of Paradox in Fourteenth-Century Logic:...
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Metaphysics and Logic
The Metaphysics and Logic group focuses on a range of issues connecting logic and metaphysics: quantification and ontological commitment; identity and indiscernibility; modality and dependence;...