Hartmut Rosa Friedrich Schiller University Jena Uncontrollability, Responsivity and ‚Responsability‘ In Search of a ‘Third Voice’ Between Active and Passive 27 April 2021, 18h00 (Lisbon Time — GMT+0) Online seminar (Zoom link here)   Abstract Modern Society is characterized by its consistent drive to expand the horizon of attainability, accessibility, and availability (‘Verfügbarkeit’). This drive is […]

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The Problem of Logical Omniscience: aboutness and impossible worlds approaches Francisca Silva (LanCog, University of Lisbon) 23 April 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+1) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) & on Zoom Abstract: Possible worlds semantics has been applied successfully in many areas in Philosophy, including in the construction of epistemic logics in […]

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Interpreting Groups J. Robert G. Williams (University of Leeds) 16 April 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+1) | Online, via Zoom Abstract: Some theories of content entail that an entity cannot be a believer/desirer without being a chooser/perceiver. This includes my version of radical interpretation, on which the correct belief-desire interpretation of an agent is that […]

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Provisional list of results: João C. Miranda Guilherme Riscali Yazan Freij Silvia Locatelli Marco Gomboso Elisa Mozzelin Manuel Zambrano (ex aequo com 6º lugar) Erik Lind Maura Ceci (ex aequo com 8º lugar) Ignacio Fluxà Jorge Luis Rosales Macías (ex aequo com 10º lugar) Catarina Tello de Castro Octavio Garcia (ex aequo com 12º lugar) […]

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A collaboration between the Practical Philosophy Research Group (Praxis) of the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon and the Research Group Ethics and Rights of the Animals (Diversitas, Núcleo de Estudos das Diversidades, Intolerâncias e Conflitos, FFLCH- University of São Paulo)  Reading Group as part of the Praxis-CFUL activities Working Language: Portuguese Organizers: […]

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On Proper Presupposition Julia Zakkou (Bielefeld University) 09 April 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+1) | Online, via Zoom Abstract: In this talk, I investigate the norm of presupposition, as one pervasive type of indirect speech act. I argue against the view that sees presuppositions as an indirect counterpart of the direct speech act of […]

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Apr 7 2021 15:00 – 17:00: Celso Alves Neto (Dalhousie University) What is it that Evolves? Traditional formulations of natural selection assume that entities undergoing selection form lineages. This assumption motivates recent claims that multispecies microbial communities do not undergo selection. Yet, these claims are controversial in part because the role and nature of lineages […]

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The Disputatio issue 59 is now available at https://sciendo.com/issue/DISP/12/59

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The Lisbon Circle Reading Group – a joint collaboration of the Center for Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (CFUL), Center for the Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL) and the Institute of Philosophy of NOVA University of Lisbon (IFILNOVA) – will soon resume its activity for the Summer term of 2021. […]

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