EXRE Colloquium

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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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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May, 2024 8

EXRE Colloquium: Claire Field – The Value of Incoherence

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

Abstract:

I argue that level-incoherence has distinctive epistemic value in a specific set of epistemic environments: those in which it is easy to acquire justified false beliefs about normative requirements of epistemic rationality. I argue that in these environments level-incoherence is the rationally dominant strategy. Nevertheless, the idea that level-incoherence is …

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May, 2024 1

EXRE Colloquium: Bruno Cortesi – On the Supposed Metaphysical Neutrality of the Phenomenological Approach (ONLINE)

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

Abstract:

My talk will be about phenomenology understood as a discipline, an enterprise or an inquiry in philosophy, rather than as a movement in the history of philosophy: as the title suggests, it will be about the (so-called) phenomenological approach and not – or not just – about the (so-called) phenomenological …

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Apr, 2024 24

EXRE Colloquium: Anthony Taylor – Usurping Official Power

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

Abstract:

Public officials—such as legislators, judges, and law enforcement officers—sometimes make mistakes. The question that this paper focusses on is whether the individuals who make these mistakes, by virtue of occupying their official role, sometimes possess a right against interference or harm that a private individual who made the same kind …

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Apr, 2024 17

EXRE Colloquium: Mario Schärli – Kant on Merely Possible Objects (ONLINE)

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

Abstract:

It is commonly held that Kant’s account of existence foreshadows Frege’s, Russell’s, and Quine’s disdain for non-existent objects. This interpretation has consequences for the interpretation of Kant’s modal metaphysics because it excludes attributing an ontology of merely possible objects (possibilia) to Kant. Consequently, it has become standard in the literature …

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