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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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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 17:15. If you’d like to volunteer to lead…
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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: tbc Location: online & livestreamed from Edgecliffe G03
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Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Proximity Spaces
Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Proximity Spaces
Dimiter Vakarelov, Ivo Düntsch, and Brandon Bennett. 2001. A note on proximity spaces and connection based mereology. In Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems – Volume 2001 (FOIS ’01). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 139–150. https://doi.org/10.1145/505168.505182 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/505168.505182 For sequel, see: Vakarelov, Dimiter ; Dimov, Georgi ; Düntsch,…
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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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CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – James Hutton (Delft)
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – James Hutton (Delft)
Title: Rebooting Environmental Ethics with Emotions: Wonder as a Sense of Nature’s Value’ Abstract: Tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
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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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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