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Modals and Copulas in Aristotle Simona Aimar (UCL) 25 March 2022, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: The following sentences (1) The Queen is necessarily British. (2) The Queen is possibly Italian. are modal claims. They contain modals, words that make a sentence express modalities like possibilities […]
Read more Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2021-22, Session 21
The Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (CFUL) is interested in receiving proposals from candidates wishing to develop research activities leading to the award of a Doctorate in Philosophy (with particular emphasis on the History of Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy or Practical Philosophy), with the CFUL as the host institution, in the context of the Call for PhD […]
Andrés Saenz de Sicilia Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London | UNAM Capitalism as System and History: On Marx’s Theory of Subsumption 22 March 2022, 17h00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+0) Sala Mattos Romão (Room C201.J – Department of Philosophy) | School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon Abstract One of […]
Read more Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy 2021/22, Session 14
Barcan Formulas and the Limits of Contingency Adam Russell Murray (University of Manitoba) 18 March 2022, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Our simplest and best understood theory of first-order metaphysical modality represents individual existence and non-existence as strictly non-contingent. However, these necessitist implications of the simple theory […]
Read more Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2021-22, Session 20
Viriato Soromenho-Marques Praxis-CFUL, University of Lisbon Anthropocene, Utopia and Dystopia. Contributions to a Philosophy of History of the Near Future 15 March 2022, 17h00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+0) Sala Mattos Romão (Room C201.J – Department of Philosophy) | School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon Abstract The roots of our present predicament […]
Read more Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy 2021/22, Session 13
An Internal Realist Interpretation of the Primitive Ontology Programme Andrea Oldofredi (University of Lisbon, LanCog) 11 March 2022, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: New interesting developments and extensions of the Primitive Ontology (PO) programme have been recently proposed in order to defeat Laudan’s Pessimistic Meta-Induction on the […]
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Teresa Joaquim Universidade Aberta A questão da natalidade como (possibilidade de) transmissão de um mundo comum: entre Hannah Arendt e Françoise Collin 8 March 2022, 16h00 (Lisbon Time — GMT+0) Sala Mattos Romão (Room C201.J – Department of Philosophy) | School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon Abstract Pretende-se com esta exposição […]
Read more Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy 2021/22, Session 12
From Metaphilosophy to Semantics Jonathan Berg (University of Haifa) 4 March 2022, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: I aim to show how a commonly accepted metaphilosophical assumption has important consequences for a hotly debated issue in the philosophy of language. The seemingly innocuous metaphilosophical claim is this: […]
Read more Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2021-22, Session 18
Consequences do not trickle down Diogo Santos (University of Lisbon, LanCog) 25 February 2022, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: I have argued that consequentialists should endorse what I call the No Trickle Down Principle (NTD), which is a restriction on what counts as consequence of an isolated […]
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Ludger Schwarte Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Critique of Contemporary Art 22 February 2022, 17h00 (Lisbon Time — GMT+0) Sala Mattos Romão (Room C201.J – Department of Philosophy) | School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon Abstract Theoretical determinations of the peculiarities of contemporary art have been put forward for about 10 years. Previously, one […]
Read more Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy 2021/22, Session 11