Events

Dec, 2024 3

Workshop: “Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind”

Sharon Casu Time: 10:00 - 17:20 Other

Room MIS04 4118

10.00 – 11.20: Vera Hoffman-Kolss (Universität Bern): “Indeterminate Prevention: A Supervaluationist Approach”

11.30 – 12.50: Alex Moran (Université de Fribourg): “The Possibility of Non-Reductive Physicalism”

 

Room MIS04 4122

14.30 – 15.50: Will Moorfoot (University of Southampton): “Zombie-proof physicalism and Mary’s revenge”

16.00 – 17.20: John Donaldson (University of Glasgow): “Does super-causation entail …

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Nov, 2024 20

Will Moorfoot, “In Defence of Indeterministic Building”

Sharon Casu Time: 17:15 - 19:00 EXRE Colloquium

Abstract

In this paper, I set out a new argument for the coherence of indeterministic building and defend its premises. The argument hinges on the underexplored notion of indeterministic supervenience. First, I argue that the logical possibility of an indeterministic supervenience relation entails the coherence of indeterministic building. Second, I argue …

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Aug, 2024 10

Book Symposium: Matt Duncan’s “Present to the Mind: Acquaintance and Its Significance”

Sharon Casu Time: 09:00 - 16:30 Other

Dear all,

I am pleased to invite you to a book symposium on Matt Duncan’s Present to the Mind: Acquaintance and Its Significance, which will take place on August 10, 2024 at the University of Fribourg (Room MIS 10 01.04).

Matt Duncan will briefly present five chapters of …

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Aug, 2024 5

Aug, 2024 9

CUSO Summer School with Gideon Rosen “Recent Work in the Metaphysics of Ethics”

Sarah KOEGLSPERGER Other

Description:

The EPP Chair of the Université de Fribourg is organising a Summer School with Gideon Rosen (Princeton). The week-long summer school will focus on the metaphysics of morality, with a special focus on non-naturalist moral realism: the view that moral thought and discourse are concerned with real, mind-independent facts that …

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Jul, 2024 29

Jul, 2024 30

Applications of Grounding (Part II)

Alex Moran Time: 10:00 - 17:00 Other

This workshops brings together a range of scholars working on first-order issues in philosophy within a metaphysical grounding framework. We will have talks on various topics, in for example meta-ethics, metaphysics, mind, and ancient philosophy, whereby what unifies the talks is a grounding-theoretic approach. Confirmed speakers include:

 

Ralf Bader (Fribourg)

Carlo Rossi …

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Jun, 2024 24

Robert Hopkins (NYU) The Birth of an Icon

Gianfranco Soldati Time: 17:15 - 19:00 EXRE Colloquium
The Birth of an Icon
Pictures are semantically structured, but how? And how does that structure relate to their spatial structure? One answer to these questions is offered by the Parts Principle: where a picture P depicts some object or scene O, every spatial part of P depicts some spatial …

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May, 2024 22

EXRE Colloquium: Julien Bugnon – Welfare Subjectivity and The Unifying Power of Consciousness (ONLINE)

Elisa Bezençon Time: 17:15 - 19:00 EXRE Colloquium

Abstract:

I present an argument based on the unifying power of consciousness in favour of what Bradford (2022) has termed “the View”: the view that consciousness is necessary for being a welfare subject. Welfare subjects are bearers of welfare goods and bads: things that affect the well-being or welfare of these …

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