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  • Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Teresa Marques (Barcelona): “Representing or shaping reality? What class can teach about woman”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 精东传媒, United Kingdom

    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…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar tba Mark Jago Title: Metaphysical Structure

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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…

  • Super Special Seminar tba

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  • Conceptual Engineering Seminar |聽Helen De Cruz (St Louis): “Ameliorative genealogy and hunter-gatherer philosophies”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 精东传媒, United Kingdom

    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…

  • Language and Mind Seminar | Emilia Wilson

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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…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Roy Sorenson

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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…

  • Super Special Seminar tba

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 精东传媒, United Kingdom