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Title:聽Open Problems in Mereotopology Abstract:
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Title: Goodness as Natural Perfection. Abstract: In this paper I outline Aristotle鈥檚 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 鈥榝unction鈥� 鈥� ones derived from evolutionary theory 鈥� and argue that they are not preferable… |
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Title: Why Professors Should Not Sleep With Their Students 鈥� 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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Every semester, we hold an all-of-Arch茅 Staff/Student organisational meeting for everyone to attend. Tea/Coffee will be available. Agenda TBC
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Every semester, we hold an all-of-Arch茅 Staff/Student organisational meeting for everyone to attend. Tea/Coffee will be available. Agenda TBC
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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鈥檚 own conclusions. It is thus regarded…
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The brand-new PhiCliSci reading group聽will discuss Reto Knutti’s article聽鈥楥limate Model Confirmation: From Philosophy to Predicting Climate in the Real World鈥�,聽available here. This will be in Edgecliffe G03, and online. Optional Further Readings for PhiCliSci Reading Group: Hawkins, E., and R. Sutton. 2009. 鈥楾he Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions鈥�.聽Bulletin of the American Meteorological…
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Please join us on聽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聽Graeme MacGilchrist聽and philosopher聽Katharina Bernhard聽will give presentations on the topic of 鈥楿ncertainty鈥� in climate science, after… |
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Randell, Cui, Cohn. (1992). A Spatial Logic Based on Regions and Connection. KR聽92:165–176. |
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Though faced with Kripke鈥檚 clear knock-down objection, Don鈥檛 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鈥檙e all just brains in vats. And tracking… |
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This week Karri Heikkinen will lead a discussion on Kirsten Mann,聽“Relevance and nonbinary choices” Ethics (2022). 聽Location: Edgecliffe G03
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Title: Killing vs Headaches: Wide Proportionality and Limited Aggregation Abstract: Philosophers who have discussed 鈥榣imited aggregation鈥� have focussed discussion on cases in which we must choose which of two groups to save 鈥� for example, whether we should save one person鈥檚 life, or save some enormous number of people from a mild headache. According to… |
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Stell, J. G. (2000). Boolean connection algebras: A new approach to the Region-Connection Calculus.聽Artificial Intelligence聽122 (1-2):111-136. https://philpapers.org/rec/STEBCA-5 |
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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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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路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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This week, we鈥檒l be discussing epistemic consequentialism. I鈥檒l 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鈥檚 article 鈥淓pistemic consequentialism as a metatheory of inquiry鈥�. Here is the abstract for…
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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聽 Location: Edgecliffe G03
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Title: Global Health Equity through Decolonizing Health Research Ethics in Africa: Leveraging Kwame Nkrumah鈥檚 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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Sections 5-8 of: Stell, J. G. (2000). Boolean connection algebras: A new approach to the Region-Connection Calculus.聽Artificial Intelligence聽122 (1-2):111-136. https://philpapers.org/rec/STEBCA-5 |
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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 鈥� one sees this in feminist work on pornography 鈥� or… |
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You are warmly invited to the book launch for聽Bradley Hillier-Smith鈥檚 brand-new book聽The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees聽(abstract below).聽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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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: 鈥渆pistemic standards鈥�. We catalog the functional roles of epistemic standards, including their role in explaining…
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This week we will discuss James Sias, 鈥楨thical Intuitionism and the Emotions: Toward an Empirically Adequate Moral Sense Theory鈥�,聽available here. Location: Edgecliffe G03
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Title:聽Emotion-Based聽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鈥檝e developed elsewhere), I propose an 鈥淓motion-Based鈥� methodology for environmental ethics. The… |
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Title: The Paradox at the Boundary of Everything Abstract: TBC |
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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 鈥� one sees this in feminist work on pornography 鈥� or…
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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聽UBP). The body-schema is the means through which we apprehend having a felt-sense of the body… |
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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鈥檛 think… |
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Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism (joint work 聽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…
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This week we will discuss Cora Diamond’s classic paper ‘The Difficulty of Reality’. Location: Edgecliffe G03
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Title:聽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. 鈥楾hinned-out鈥� in that I am not interested in this or that substantive version of… |
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