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A propósito da celebração do Dia Internacional dos Direitos Humanos (10 de Dezembro), a Agência Ecclesia entrevistou o Professor Pedro Calafate, que falou sobre a Escola Ibérica da Paz. https://agencia.ecclesia.pt/portal/direitos-humanos-principios-da-convivencia-pacifica-e-dignidade-da-pessoa-tem-genese-portuguesa-em-autores-do-seculo-xvi-pedro-calafate/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEznDF9TswA&feature=emb_title
The Expression of Hate in Hate Speech Teresa Marques (University of Barcelona) 18 December 2020, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & live-streamed Abstract: This paper offers an account of how hate speech expresses hate. In so doing, it answers two objections to expressivist views. It further gives a […]
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Ricardo Mendoza-Canales Praxis-CFUL, University of Lisbon Inhabiting Utopia 15 December 2020, 18h00 (Lisbon Time — GMT+0) Online seminar (Zoom link here) Abstract A distinctive feature of utopian narratives throughout history has been the close relationship between imagination and politics. From its first formulation in Plato’s Republic, utopias have been associated with imaginary and alternative conceptions of […]
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The Logic of Polyreference Laura Delgado (LanCog, University of Lisbon) 11 December 2020, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & live-streamed Abstract: I have defended a novel view of the semantic of proper names, i.e., the Polyreferential View. According to this view, proper names can have more than one […]
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Knowledge, Luck and Individualised Evidence Dario Mortini (Cogito, University of Glasgow) 4 December 2020, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & live-streamed Abstract: It is intuitively impermissible to convict someone on the basis of mere statistical evidence, but it is intuitively permissible to convict someone on the basis of […]
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On the Optimality of Vagueness Paul Egré (joint work with Benjamin Spector, Adèle Mortier, Steven Verheyen) Institute Jean Nicod and École Normale Supériore 27 November 2020, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & live-streamed Abstract: What is the function of vagueness in language? We argue that in contexts in […]
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Jeffrey Andrew Barash University of Picardie – Jules Verne Collective Memory, Social Imaginaries, and the Transformation of Political Mythology in the Age of the Mass Media 24 November 2020, 18h00 (Lisbon Time — GMT+0) This session will take place via streaming (Zoom link here) Abstract Whatever structural similarities anthropologists might posit to typify […]
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Natural Kinds, Mind-Independence, and Unification Principles Tuomas Tahko (University of Bristol) 20 November 2020, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & live-streamed Abstract: A group of entities may share a number of properties without being a natural kind (say, all green and round things). It’s often enough for our […]
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The Fundamentality of Fundamental Powers Joaquim Giannotti (University of Birmingham) 13 November 2020, 16:00 | The talk will be given in a mixed presence regime Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & live-streamed Abstract: Dispositional essentialism is the view that all or many fundamental properties are essentially dispositional, or powers. […]
Read more Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2020-21, Session 7