Aboutness and Scientific Modelling Quentin Ruyant (Complutense University of Madrid)   17 May 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: According to the semantic conception of scientific theories, theories should be identified with families of models, each typically conceived of as a “possible world […]

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Suspending Judgement about Rationality Thomas Raleigh (University of Luxembourgh)   10 May 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: Can it ever be rational to suspend judgement about the rationality of one of your own doxastic attitudes? There has been much recent […]

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Roberto Navarrete Alonso Complutense University of Madrid Hacia la crítica mesiánica de la teología política. Desencantamiento del mundo y soberanía en Walter Benjamin 7 May 2024, 17h00 (Lisbon Summer Time — GMT+1) Sala Mattos Romão (Room C201.J – Department of Philosophy) School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon   Abstract Al menos desde […]

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Joint Curiosity and Meta-Conceptualization Ilhan Inan (Koç University)   3 May 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: I shall argue that joint curiosity is an advanced form of joint attention which has played a crucial role in the emergence of the sciences and philosophy […]

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Theological Fatalism, Closure, and the Contingent a priori Fabio Lampert (University of Vienna)   26 April 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: I will present new reasons for being suspicious of what I think is the best argument for theological fatalism. I […]

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The MSCA Staff Exchanges Action PLEXUS announces the PLEXUS Summer School to be held in the University of Navarra (Pamplona – Spain) from the 10th to 14th of June 2024. The School aims to gather young researchers from around the world working on Logic and related areas, with particular interest on Substructural Logics and their […]

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The Theory of Relevance, Formal Fallacies of Relevance, and Relevant Logic Nicholas Ferenz (Czech Academy of Science)   19 April 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: Relevant logics are logics with a conditional connective that represents, in the object language, various sorts […]

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The Hardness of the Practical Might Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto)   12 April 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: Incommensurability is often introduced with the small improvement argument. Options A and B are shown to be incommensurable when it is neither […]

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