Edgecliffe G03

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  • FPST Seminar Social

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    Wee gathering to hang, catch up, and start the new academic year. All welcome! Drinks and snacks provided.

  • Unity Seminar: WIP Cotnoir & Schirripa ‘Vagueness & Mereology’

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    Abstract: Even if philosophers can鈥檛 agree on whether to locate the source of vagueness in the world, in our language, or in our knowledge, we can agree that at least some ordinary mereological claims are vague. For some candidate vague object, like Edinburgh or Mt Everest, 聽we may regard some of its parts as being…

  • CANCELLED FPST Seminar – Clare Chambers (Cambridge)

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    Title:聽Respect, Religion, and Feminism: Political Liberalism as Feminist Liberalism? Abstract:聽This chapter considers whether political liberalism, specifically, can be used for feminist ends. There is significant disagreement among feminists and liberals about the compatibility between their two doctrines. Political liberalism is vulnerable to particular criticism from feminists, who argue that its restricted form of equality is…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis)

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    Speaker: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis) Should have Known聽and Epistemically Appropriate Belief Sometimes people don鈥檛 know things they should have known. For instance, cardiologists should know about recent major developments that bear on their practice; if they don鈥檛 know, they should have. Can what a person should have known matter to what they鈥檙e…

  • FPST Seminar – Viviane Fairbank (St. Andrews and Stirling) (online)

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    Title: Some Thoughts on Victimhood and Feminism Abstract: In her book Conflict Is Not Abuse (2016), Sarah Schulman argues that, in many domains of public and private life, false accusations of harm allow (groups of) people to conflate 鈥渃onflict,鈥� which is quotidian, and 鈥渁buse,鈥� which is more problematic but infrequent. The general tendency to mis-identify…