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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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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Christopher J. Masterman (St Andrews)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Christopher J. Masterman (St Andrews)
Title: Saying Something with Nothing Abstract: Ontological nihilism is the view that fundamentally there are no objects. Whilst it is an increasingly popular view, nihilists face a so-called expressive adequacy challenge. Standard natural and formal languages carve up the world into at least objects and properties/relations satisfied by those objects. But the nihilist doesn’t think…
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Epistemology Seminar: Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism
Epistemology Seminar: Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism
Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism (joint work with N. Pedersen) The dominant approach in the literature on risk is to adopt a monist stance by taking the probabilistic notion of risk to be the only proper notion. However, there is a growing philosophical literature on non-probabilistic notions of risk. In this…
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
This week we will discuss Cora Diamond’s classic paper ‘The Difficulty of Reality’. Location: Edgecliffe G03
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: This paper concerns itself with the rationality of belief in ancestral existence. Although belief in ancestral existence remains widespread globally, I shall focus on a-thinned out version of African forms of this belief. ‘Thinned-out’ in that I am not interested in this or that substantive version of…
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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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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Dr Graziana Ciola (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Dr Graziana Ciola (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Title: Commitment Issues? Nominalism and the Semantics of Empty Terms (In Late-Medieval Logic) Abstract: Usually, the label “Nominalism” evokes sorne kind of ontological parsimony. Ockham’s Razor epitomizes this understanding of Nominalism: “it is pointless to do with more things what can be done with fewer”—or in a later formulation “entities should not be multiplied beyond…
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Film and Philosophy Club – Stories We Tell
Film and Philosophy Club – Stories We Tell
We are proud to present the Fourth Session of the CEPPA Film Club. This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and Stories We Tell (see trailer here). The movie will start SHARP at 17:15. Recommended reading and watching material Articles: Bill Nichols – Performative documentaries (in Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture p.92-106).…
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Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Vagueness & Topology
Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Vagueness & Topology
Rumfitt, Ian (2015). The Boundary Stones of Thought: An Essay in the Philosophy of Logic. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Ch. 8: The Challenge from Vagueness https://philpapers.org/rec/RUMTBS
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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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Early Diagnosis: Handling Knowing Public Webinar
Early Diagnosis: Handling Knowing Public Webinar
This will be an online event (7pm-8pm) for members of the public. The team from the University of St Andrews will be sharing information and inviting discussion. TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE Recent advances in artificial intelligence, biomarker research, genomic sequencing, and big data analytics are revolutionising diagnosis, enabling more accurate life and health expectancy predictions. These advancements…
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All Arché Research Day (Winter 2024)
All Arché Research Day (Winter 2024)
This Friday, the Arché term wraps up with another all-day all-Arché get-together, featuring research presentations from Sabina Domínguez Parrado, Lara Scheibli, Stephen Read, and Franz Berto, and five-minute lightning talks from brave presenters including Jessica Brown, Simon Prosser, Christopher Masterman, and more. We’ll be in G03 from 9:30am. 9:45: Stephen Read (Insolubles in Fourteenth-Century Logic, or: What…
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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…