Alexander Carruth Durham University Being Physical 7 July 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: In order for certain debates in the philosophy of mind to proceed in good order—especially those concerning the relationship between mind and body—there are certain desiderata that any characterisation of the notion of […]
Ofra Magidor University of Oxford Co-predication and Property Inheritance (co-authored with David Liebesman) 30 June 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: It is tempting to think that words like ‘book’ are ambiguous between a ‘physical book’ sense and an ‘informational book’ sense: on the physical sense, three […]
Eduardo Castro Universidade da Beira Interior Induction and Broken Necessities 23 June 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: In a forthcoming paper, ‘Induction and Natural Necessities’, Stathis Psillos tries to refute the necessitarian solution to the problem of induction provided by David Armstrong. To accomplish this desideratum, […]
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Ben Bradley Syracuse University Resonance and Modality 16 June 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Subjectivist theories of welfare are largely motivated by a resonance constraint. Roughly, the resonance constraint holds that nothing can be good for someone unless it resonates with them. This general statement of […]
June 14th 15.30h – 18.00h Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Room: tba Lecture on Harm by Ben Bradley Injunctions against harming others can be found everywhere. An obvious example is Mill’s “Harm Principle,” which “requires liberty… of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow: without impediment from […]
David Yates LANCOG Universidade de Lisboa Thinking about Spacetime 9 June 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Quantum gravity research suggests that spacetime is not fundamental, but is in some sense emergent. There is little clarity about what ‘emergent’ means, but it is often taken to mean […]
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David Papineau King’s College London Causation 2 June 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Causation is a temporally asymmetric relation, and so not grounded in fundamental dynamics alone. But this does not mean it does not exist or is unimportant. In this talk I shall show how […]
Tommaso Piazza Università di Pavia On What a Defeater Is 26 May 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Along with the venerable tradition initiated by John L. Pollock (1986), (Def) D is a defeater for E’s support for believing P if and only if E is a reason […]