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Unity Seminar: Invited Talk (Online) – Varzi ‘Open Issues in Mereotopology’
Unity Seminar: Invited Talk (Online) – Varzi ‘Open Issues in Mereotopology’
Title: Open Problems in Mereotopology Abstract:
In person Talk by Tom Angier (University of Cape Town)
In person Talk by Tom Angier (University of Cape Town)
Title: Goodness as Natural Perfection. Abstract: In this paper I outline Aristotle’s conception of human functioning, which I take to be a viable and illuminating ground for determining human goods. I then look at alternative schemata for the notion of ‘function’ – ones derived from evolutionary theory – and argue that they are not preferable…
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FPST Seminar: Lara Scheibli (St Andrews) – In-person
FPST Seminar: Lara Scheibli (St Andrews) – In-person
Title: Why Professors Should Not Sleep With Their Students – The Epistemology of Consent and Professor-Student Sex Abstract: My main interest is explaining the wrong involved in professors (or any teaching staff) sleeping with their students, and to consider the viability of explaining at least some of the harm in a consent framework. While alternative…
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Arché Staff/Student Organisational Meeting – Semester 1
Arché Staff/Student Organisational Meeting – Semester 1
Every semester, we hold an all-of-Arché Staff/Student organisational meeting for everyone to attend. Tea/Coffee will be available. Agenda TBC
Arché Staff/Student Organisational Meeting
Arché Staff/Student Organisational Meeting
Every semester, we hold an all-of-Arché Staff/Student organisational meeting for everyone to attend. Tea/Coffee will be available. Agenda TBC
Epistemology Seminar: Justin Snedegar (Marusic and White on Peer Disagreement)
Epistemology Seminar: Justin Snedegar (Marusic and White on Peer Disagreement)
Justin Snedegar to lead discussion on “Disagreement and Alienation” by Marusic and White (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/phpe.12197) Abstract: This paper proposes to reorient the philosophical debate about peer disagreement. The problem of peer disagreement is normally seen as a problem about the extent to which disagreement provides one with evidence against one’s own conclusions. It is thus regarded…
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
The brand-new PhiCliSci reading group will discuss Reto Knutti’s article ‘Climate Model Confirmation: From Philosophy to Predicting Climate in the Real World’, available here. This will be in Edgecliffe G03, and online. Optional Further Readings for PhiCliSci Reading Group: Hawkins, E., and R. Sutton. 2009. ‘The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions’. Bulletin of the American Meteorological…
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katharina Bernhard (St Andrews) and Graeme MacGilchrist (St Andrews)
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katharina Bernhard (St Andrews) and Graeme MacGilchrist (St Andrews)
Please join us on 31 October (4-5.30pm) for the launch of the Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) working group, which will bring together philosophers and climate scientists to discuss central themes relating to the climate crisis. In the first session, climate scientist Graeme MacGilchrist and philosopher Katharina Bernhard will give presentations on the topic of ‘Uncertainty’ in climate science, after…
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Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Regions & Connection 1
Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Regions & Connection 1
Randell, Cui, Cohn. (1992). A Spatial Logic Based on Regions and Connection. KR 92:165–176.
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Mark Jago (Nottingham) “Tracking Conjunctions”
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Mark Jago (Nottingham) “Tracking Conjunctions”
Though faced with Kripke’s clear knock-down objection, Don’t be too quick with tracking-the-truth rejection. OK, one knows a red barn for its hue, Yet knows it not as a barn, though it be true. That may be so and yet we know some facts, Despite the chance we’re all just brains in vats. And tracking…
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
This week Karri Heikkinen will lead a discussion on Kirsten Mann, “Relevance and nonbinary choices” Ethics (2022). Location: Edgecliffe G03
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Patrick Tomlin (Warwick University)
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Patrick Tomlin (Warwick University)
Title: Killing vs Headaches: Wide Proportionality and Limited Aggregation Abstract: Philosophers who have discussed ‘limited aggregation’ have focussed discussion on cases in which we must choose which of two groups to save – for example, whether we should save one person’s life, or save some enormous number of people from a mild headache. According to…
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Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Regions & Connection 2
Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Regions & Connection 2
Stell, J. G. (2000). Boolean connection algebras: A new approach to the Region-Connection Calculus. Artificial Intelligence 122 (1-2):111-136. https://philpapers.org/rec/STEBCA-5
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FPST Seminar: Claudia Kreklau (St Andrews) – In-person
FPST Seminar: Claudia Kreklau (St Andrews) – In-person
Title: Queer/Gender/History This event will begin at 3:15 instead of the usual 3pm. Abstract: What can history contribute to contemporary understandings of Gender and Queerness? Historians have shown that our modern conceptions of trans* identity and sexual orientation originate in central Europe c.1869-1910. What else can we learn from history to inform contemporary Gender and…
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Film and Philosophy Club – WALL·E
Film and Philosophy Club – WALL·E
We are proud to present the Third Session of CEPPA Film Club. This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and WALL·E (see trailer here). The discussion will be lead by Emma Holmes and Miguel de la Cal Moreno. The movie will start SHARP at 17:30. Here is a suggested reading list: Dona…
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Epistemology Seminar: Amiya Hashkes (St Andrews) – Epistemic Consequentialism
Epistemology Seminar: Amiya Hashkes (St Andrews) – Epistemic Consequentialism
This week, we’ll be discussing epistemic consequentialism. I’ll start by giving some background on the topic more generally and presenting some problems that have been raised for it in the literature, and then spend most of the time on Andersen and Kappel’s article “Epistemic consequentialism as a metatheory of inquiry”. Here is the abstract for…
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Ziming Xia will lead the MPRG to discuss ‘Localized Restricted Aggregation’ by Victor Tadros. All welcome! Article available here: https://academic.oup.com/book/32206/chapter-abstract/268368585?redirectedFrom=fulltext Location: Edgecliffe G03
CEPPA Talk (online) – John Barugahare (Makerere University)
CEPPA Talk (online) – John Barugahare (Makerere University)
Title: Global Health Equity through Decolonizing Health Research Ethics in Africa: Leveraging Kwame Nkrumah’s Analysis of Neocolonialism. Abstract:Background: The foundational contention of this paper is that, arguably, the ultimate ethical goal of conducting health research among humans is to provide them with better health opportunities. Because of growing perceptions that ongoing international collaborative health research…
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Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Regions & Connection 3
Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Regions & Connection 3
Sections 5-8 of: Stell, J. G. (2000). Boolean connection algebras: A new approach to the Region-Connection Calculus. Artificial Intelligence 122 (1-2):111-136. https://philpapers.org/rec/STEBCA-5
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FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online
FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online
Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language – one sees this in feminist work on pornography – or…
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Bradley Hillier-Smith’s ‘The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees’ Book Launch
Bradley Hillier-Smith’s ‘The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees’ Book Launch
You are warmly invited to the book launch for Bradley Hillier-Smith’s brand-new book The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees (abstract below). The author will be interviewed by Kieran Oberman (LSE), after which we will all be in the opportunity to ask questions and celebrate the new book with some well-deserved drinks. All welcome! Bradley Hillier-Smith: The Ethics of…
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Epistemology Seminar:
Epistemology Seminar:
Ethan Lai will lead a discussion on ‘What are epistemic standards’ by Laura Frances Callahan and Michael G. Titelbaum. This is the abstract for the paper: Abstract: Over the past two decades, a new concept has gained prominence in epistemology: “epistemic standards”. We catalog the functional roles of epistemic standards, including their role in explaining…
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
This week we will discuss James Sias, ‘Ethical Intuitionism and the Emotions: Toward an Empirically Adequate Moral Sense Theory’, available here. Location: Edgecliffe G03
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – James Hutton (Delft)
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – James Hutton (Delft)
Title: Emotion-Based Environmental Ethics: The Radical Implications of Taking Wonder Seriously Abstract: In environmental ethics, we find many competing theories of environmental value, but little discussion of the epistemological grounds for believing one theory rather than another. Building on the framework of moral empiricism (which I’ve developed elsewhere), I propose an “Emotion-Based” methodology for environmental ethics. The…
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Unity Seminar: Invited Talk (In-Person) – Graham Priest ‘The paradox at the boundary of everything’
Unity Seminar: Invited Talk (In-Person) – Graham Priest ‘The paradox at the boundary of everything’
Title: The Paradox at the Boundary of Everything Abstract: TBC
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FPST Seminar: Sebastian Stuart Betanzos (St Andrews) – In-Person
FPST Seminar: Sebastian Stuart Betanzos (St Andrews) – In-Person
Title: The Sex/Gender Distinction, Revisited Abstract: This talk will build on an earlier chapter in my thesis where I sketched out two conceptual resources from psychoanalysis, these being the body-schema and the universal bisexual potential of the human body (the UBP). The body-schema is the means through which we apprehend having a felt-sense of the body…
FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online
FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online
Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language – one sees this in feminist work on pornography – or…
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CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katrin Flikschuh (LSE)
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katrin Flikschuh (LSE)
Title: The Idea of Ancestry in African Philosophy Abstract: Tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03