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Edgecliffe G03
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Jonathan Schaffer, “On What There Is, Was, or Could Be; Or: Modal Realism without Stares”
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsAbstract: Plato and Pegasus do not exist, but otherwise they have so much going for them. They are nameable, in range of quantifiers, and able to stand in some relations. These familiar points lead to a range of puzzles (including what Quine famously called 鈥淧lato鈥檚 beard鈥), as to how we can name, quantifier over, and…
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Plenary Seminar: Pree Jareonsettasin (Cambridge), ‘Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue’
Edgecliffe G03TITLE: ‘Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue: reconciling divine determinism with creaturely freedom by distinguishing sorts of contingency’. ABSTRACT: Is man free in a world created by God and over which God exercises providence? The fourteenth-century logician-mathematician-theologian Thomas Bradwardine has, for seven centuries, been accused of having sacrificed human freedom on the altar of divine…
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ECT Seminar
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Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Publication of Francis Hutcheson鈥檚 An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Edgecliffe , United KingdomThursday 23 October 1.30-2.30 Elizabeth Radcliffe (William and Mary): "Moral Epistemology in Hutcheson鈥檚 Inquiry" 2.30-3.30 Michael Walschots (Milan): "Hutcheson on Desire: A Reappraisal" 3.30-4.00 Tea and coffee 4.00-5.00 Enrico Galvagni (Edinburgh): "Hutcheson鈥檚 Sentimentalist Voluntarism" 5.00-6.00 Signy Gutnick Allen (Zurich): 'Hutcheson and Smith on Justice and Compassion' 6.00-6.30 A toast to the Liberty Fund edition of…
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Medieval Logic Seminar: Buridan’s treatise on suppositions, chapter 3
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Unity Seminar
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Unity Seminar: Anna-Sofia Maurin (Gothenburg) “Flatworldism: A鈥擱eluctant鈥擠efense”
Edgecliffe G03Flatworldism is a view on the nature of reality according to which reality鈥檚 inhabitants are not聽sub-dividable into the more and less fundamental such that what is more fundamental (at least sometimes) makes what is less fundamental exist and be the way it is. Flatworldism is a view I have so far tended to reject in…
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WIKI Seminar
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Language and Mind seminar
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