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Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2020-21, Session 28

Kinds, Objects, and Essences David Papineau (King’s College London) 11 June 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+1) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & on Zoom Abstract: Kripke’s Naming and Necessity reintroduced the traditional distinction between the essential and accidental properties of things. Many philosophers view this distinction with suspicion. I shall show, however, […]

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Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2020-21, Session 27

Faultlessness and multidimensionality Diogo Santos (LanCog, University of Lisbon) 04 June 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+1) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & on Zoom Abstract: Many have pointed out that non-evaluative vague predicates can give rise to faultless disagreements. This sort of faultlessness has to do with the gradable nature of vague predicates. […]

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Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2020-21, Session 25

The Ontology of Rock Music: Recordings, Studio-Performances or Songs? Hugo Luzio (LanCog, University of Lisbon) 21 May 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+1) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & on Zoom Abstract: Ontologists of music (generally) agree that classical works are pieces (or compositions) for live performance. But, just as classical works from […]

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Topics of Social Philosophy and Critical Theory 2020/21

Reading Group as part of the Praxis-CFUL activities Working language: Portuguese Organizers: Dr. Ricardo Mendoza-Canales (rcanales@letras.ulisboa.pt) & Rui Filipe (ruifilipe63@hotmail.com) Wednesdays, from 17h30 to 19h00, according to the calendar below. To participate, please send an e-mail to the organizers expressing your interest in taking part in the RG.   Spring Semester 2021: “Alienation/Reification” The first […]

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Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2020-21, Session 24

Reasons in Deception Artūrs Logins (University of Zürich) 14 May 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+1) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & on Zoom Abstract: According to a popular and pretheoretically appealing view, victims of radical deception (e.g., the New Evil Demon scenarios, cf. Cohen and Lehrer (1983) and Cohen (1984)) are epistemically […]

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Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2020-21, Session 23

Varieties of Risk and Recklessness Philip Ebert (University of Stirling) 07 May 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+1) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & on Zoom Abstract: A number of philosophers have recently argued that danger or risk judgments do not track underlying probabilities of a bad outcome and have argued for non-probabilistic […]

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Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2020-21, Session 22

NeoRussellian Logicism Bruno Jacinto (CFCUL/LanCog) & José Mestre (Stirling/LanCog) 30 April 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+1) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & on Zoom Abstract: Frege’s and Russell’s original projects of deriving the basic laws of arithmetic in pure logic were based on contrasting conceptions of the natural numbers. While Frege thought […]

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