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Disputatio Issue 63 on Correia and Rosenkranz, Nothing to Come

May 3, 2023

We are happy to announce that issue 63 of Disputatio is out and freely available at https://sciendo.com/issue/DISP/13/63 It is a special issue dedicated to a discussion of the book by Fabrice Correia and Sven Rosenkranz, Nothing to Come: A Defence of the Growing Block Theory of Time (Springer, 2018). The guest editors are Cristian Mariani and Giuliano Torrengo. […]

LanCog Logic Seminar Series: Camillo Fiore

May 2, 2023

Friday, May 5, 11:00—13:00 (Lisbon time) Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon The University of Lisbon Location: Matos Romão Room Camillo Fiore (The University of Buenos Aires) Title: Recapture Results Revindicated Abstract: A well-known objection to non-classical logics is that they are too weak; in particular, they cannot prove a […]

Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2022-23: Session 22

May 2, 2023

Musical Works, Nested Types and Modal Claims Nemesio García-Carril Puy (Complutense University of Madrid) 5 May 2023, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Guy Rohrbaugh and Allan Hazlett have provided an argument against the thesis that musical works are types. In short, they […]

Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy 2022/23, Session 18

April 27, 2023

Marta Faustino NOVA University Lisbon On the ‘How’ and the ‘Why’. Nietzsche’s Version of Happiness and the Good Life 2 May 2023, 17h00 (Lisbon Summer Time — GMT+1) Sala Mattos Romão (Room C201.J – Department of Philosophy) School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon Abstract “People don’t strive for happiness, only the […]

Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2022-23: Session 21

April 24, 2023

The Puzzle of Defective and Permissible Inquiry Michele Palmira (Complutense University of Madrid) 28 April 2023, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: On the one hand, it seems that there’s something epistemically off with inquiring into questions which don’t have true answers – […]

LanCog Logic Seminar Series: Aybüke Özgün

April 18, 2023

LanCog Logic Seminar Series Friday, 21 April, 10AM-12PM FLUL room B.112E (Library wing) and online (zoom link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/97196260396?pwd=Tlp4Q0xPd3FWWncvOGFXMVZ1dzRZdz09, password: 284363) Aybüke Özgün University of Amsterdam Uncertainty about Evidence We develop a logical framework for reasoning about knowledge and evidence in which the agent may be uncertain about how to interpret their evidence. […]

Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2022-23: Session 20

April 18, 2023

Moral Credit, Skill, and Virtue David Horst (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) 21 April 2023, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Someone acts in a morally worthy way when they deserve credit for doing the morally right thing. But when […]

Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2022-23: Session 19

April 11, 2023

Goethe’s Theory of Colour and the Philosophy of Science Oliver Passon (University of Wuppertal) 14 April 2023, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Surprisingly, the famous German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) considered his scientific work as more important than […]

Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy 2022/23, Session 17

April 3, 2023

Enzo Rossi University of Amsterdam The Hobgoblin of Moralist Minds 11 April 2023, 17h00 (Lisbon Summer Time — GMT+1) Sala Mattos Romão (Room C201.J – Department of Philosophy) School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon Abstract In this paper I put forward an argument against political moralism—the view that the primary task […]

Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2022-23: Session 18

March 28, 2023

Cognitive Synonymy: a Dead Parrot? Francesco Berto (University of St Andrews) (joint work with Levin Hornischer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) 31 March 2023, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Sentences φ and ψ are cognitive synonyms for one when they play the same role in one’s cognitive life: […]