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Title: On Numbers as Kinds Abstract: I discuss the neo-aristotelian ontology presented in Lowe (2006), drawing particular attention at Lowe鈥檚 notions of objects and pluralities, and his conception of natural numbers as universals. I argue that Lowe鈥檚 treatment of numbers and pluralities is useful to those who believe that non-individual entities exist and can be… |
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Title: Quotative 鈥楤e Like鈥� (joint work with Andreas Stokke (Uppsala)) Abstract:聽 There are a variety of familiar ways of talking about our mental states and speech acts, such as direct discourse (as in, ‘Ellen said, 鈥淚’m leaving now!鈥濃��), indirect discourse (as in, 鈥楨llen thought that she would leave鈥�). DD and ID continue to raise difficult…
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Abstract. 鈥斅營n this paper I argue that聽concepts fall into distinct kinds according to such things as their direction of determination, their modal range, and the nature of their referents. Such properties determine a given concept’s eligibility for genuine revision.聽As a result, different kinds of concepts require different treatment in the context of conceptual engineering. Understanding… |
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Title: ‘Being-in-the-Room: Epistemic Deference and Elite Capture’ Abstract: Standpoint epistemology refers to a set of contentions: that knowledge is socially situated, that marginalized people have some positional advantages in gaining some forms of knowledge, and that research programs ought to reflect these facts. These seem to me to be entirely unobjectionable, and indeed to follow…
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Ol煤f岷固乵i O. T谩铆w貌 (Georgetown University) Thursday, 1 Oct 4-5:30pm on Teams Title: 鈥楤eing-in-the-Room: Epistemic Deference and Elite Capture鈥� Abstract: Standpoint epistemology refers to a set of contentions: that knowledge is socially situated, that marginalized people have some positional advantages in gaining some forms of knowledge, and that research programs ought to reflect these facts. These… |
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Abstract: Mereological atomism is the thesis that everything is ultimately composed of atomic parts. Typically, this thesis is characterized by an axiom stating, more simply, that everything has atomic parts. The present paper argues that the success of the standard characterization crucially depends both on how the notion of composition is related to the notion… |
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Abstract. 鈥� Practices of concept-revision among scientists suggest that concepts can be improved. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union revised the concept PLANET so that it excluded Pluto, and insisting that the result was an improvement. But what could it mean for one concept or conceptual scheme to be better than another? Here we draw… |
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Title: ‘Lexical Priority, Decision Theory and De Minimis Risk’ Abstract: Say that one moral requirement takes lexical priority聽over another just in case violations of the former can never be outweighed or counterbalanced by violations of the latter.聽While lexical priority is arguably a feature of many ethical systems, attempts to model it within the framework of… |
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Title: Mini-Meno: How to Get More Out of Your Transmission Abstract:聽My positive thesis is that competent deduction can add justification not already present in the premise 鈥� contrary to a tradition inaugurated by Plato鈥檚 dialogue Meno. My negative thesis is there is a novel counter-example to Counter-closure. According to this conservative principle, if you now… |
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Abstract: In this presentation I explore the harm of positive assault portrayals, which refer to depictions of sexual assault in which the victim is shown to initially refuse some sexual contact but subsequently change their mind or enjoy the assault. I propose that, contrary to some popular feminist analyses, the significance of positive assault portrayals…
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Abstract. 鈥� According to Mary Midgley (1919鈥�2018), philosophy is like plumbing: “Each system supplies vital needs for those who live above it. Each is hard to repair when it does go wrong, because neither of them was ever consciously planned as a whole鈥�. In her view, philosophy responds to basic needs that are fundamental to… |
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Professor Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History, University of Edinburgh, will present this year鈥檚 Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality. For the Teams Live Event link, when available, please contact Dr Kate Ferris on kf50@st-andrews.ac.uk. |
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Title: ‘What is Morality?’ Abstract:聽In 鈥淢odern Moral Philosophy,鈥� Anscombe argued that the moral vocabulary does not correspond to any concept of Aristotelian ethics, that it derives from a confused response to the ethics of divine of command, and that it is literally meaningless. This essay contends that Anscombe was wrong. Morality corresponds to Aristotle鈥檚 general… |
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Metaphysical structure is the way things hang together, in and of themselves, and aside from their causes and effects and propensities to behave. Examples include: truth depending on reality, the mind depending on the brain, sets depending on their members, disjunctions depending on their disjuncts, wholes depending on their parts, types being realised by their… |
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Abstract. 鈥斅燞istorically, some feminists and Marxists aimed to introduce theoretically useful concepts to accurately describe, explain, and predict existing oppression and inequality. In fact, Haslanger (2000, 2006) had argued that we should analyse social kind concepts for discriminated groups (e.g., for race or gender) so as to lay down the conditions of oppression of the…
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鈥淩epresenting or shaping reality? What class can teach about woman鈥� October 20 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Abstract. 鈥� Historically, some feminists and Marxists aimed to introduce theoretically useful concepts to accurately describe, explain, and predict existing oppression and inequality. In fact, Haslanger (2000, 2006) had argued that we should analyse social kind concepts for… |
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N.B. The Workshop will now take place wholly online. Giorgione, Three Philosophers Paradoxes seized the attention of logicians in the middle ages, and were used both as tests for the viability of theories of logic, language, epistemology, and possibly every philosophical issue, and also in the specific genre of insolubles as needing a theoretical solution,… |
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We will meet online, but NOT via Arche Zoom. Updates will follow.
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Title: ‘Consent and the Question of Dynamics’ Abstract: In this paper, I first argue that 鈥渞ights-waiving鈥� is not an accurate, general description of the operation persons perform when they grant permissive consent. It fails to describe the change to the structure of the normative world that I call authority-retaining permissive consent. This is the kind…
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Hallie Liberto (University of Maryland) 鈥� 鈥淐onsent and the Question of Dynamics鈥� Thursday 22 October from 4:00 pm 鈥� 5:30 pm. Abstract: In this paper, I first argue that 鈥渞ights-waiving鈥� is not an accurate, general description of the operation persons perform when they grant permissive consent. It fails to describe the change to the structure… |
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Abstract: This talk聽develops ontological pluralism about non-being, the view that there are multiple ways, kinds, or modes of non-being. I suggest that the view is both more plausible and defensible than it first seems, and that it has many useful applications across a wide variety of metaphysical and explanatory problems. After drawing out the relationship… |
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*** SESSION RESTRICTED TO ARCH脡 MEMBERS *** Abstract. 鈥斅燭his paper advertises the importance of distinguishing three different foundational projects concerning the epistemic, which we call normative epistemic inquiry, metaepistemic inquiry, and the conceptual ethics of epistemology. We argue that these projects can be distinguished by their contrasting constitutive success conditions. We argue further that because… |
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Title: ‘Group Motivation’ Abstract: We routinely treat groups, including governments and corporations, as agents with beliefs and aims who are morally responsible for their actions. For instance, we might blame an oil company for an oil spill pointing out that they knew the risk of their profits-first policies. In this paper I discuss a key…
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Title: ‘How To Be a Pluralist About Gender’ Abstract: There are various of attractive accounts of gender kinds on offer (Haslanger 2012, Asta 2018), as well as accounts of the ontology of human social kinds (or social groups) more broadly (Mallon 2016, Ritchie 2020) that are much more conducive to feminist aims than a lot… |
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