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Emergence project seminar Wed March 24

Our next meeting will take place tomorrow at 15:00, and will feature a talk from Samuel Kimpton-Nye (Bristol) on pandispositionalism. All welcome! Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/84705629515?pwd=bWVITk5iTzZUZWVRMmYzSEJOSDlKdz09 Password: 817996 For details of past and upcoming talks, please see: https://www.kdyates.com/events/#upcoming. Abstract Some philosophers maintain that physical properties are irreducibly modal; that properties are […]

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Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2020-21, Session 18

Conceptual Engineering and Making Conceptual Change Happen Delia Belleri (LanCog, University of Lisbon) 26 March 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+0) | Online, via Zoom Abstract: Conceptual engineering is a philosophical project that aims at reflecting on conceptual representations, identifying their flaws, and proposing possible revisions. The next step (at least in theory) is that […]

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Emergence project seminar Wed March 24

Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday 24 March, and will feature a talk from Samuel Kimpton-Nye (Bristol) on pandispositionalism. All welcome!   For details of past and upcoming talks, please see: https://www.kdyates.com/events/#upcoming.   Abstract Some philosophers maintain that physical properties are irreducibly modal; that properties are powers. Powers are then employed to provide […]

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Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy 2020/21, Session 11

Dirk Michael Hennrich Praxis-CFUL, University of Lisbon Anarchitecture: Beyond the Trinity of Modern Subjectivity 23 March 2021, 18h00 (Lisbon time – GMT+0) Online Seminar (Zoom link here)     Abstract Thinking architecture today, in the age of total transformation of the planet earth through human interventions, recommends a reinterpretation of its purpose and meaning. Architecture understood […]

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Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2020-21, Session 17

Content Determination for Conceptual Engineers Timothy Sundell (University of Kentucky) 19 March 2021, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – GMT+0) | Online, via Zoom Abstract: What do we engineer when we engage in conceptual engineering? Concepts, presumably. Or meanings, perhaps. But of course nobody agrees on what concepts—or meanings—are. The closest thing to a consensus (and it […]

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Reading Group on Multipropositionalism

We invite those interested in take part in the Reading Group on Multipropositionalism, jointly organized by Claudia Picazo (University of Granada) and Laura Delgado (LanCog – University of Lisbon). Our first meeting would be on April 15th at 12pm CET, and thereafter we will meet on alternate Thursdays for about 6 sessions in total – […]

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Reading Group on Conceptual Engineering

RG Conceptual Engineering – Calendar 1) – Thursday, April 8 (10:00-12:00 GMT) – Cappelen, H. (2020). Conceptual Engineering: The Master Argument. In Burgess, A., Cappelen, H., and Plunkett, D. (Eds.) Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics: Oxford University Press. (https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198801856.001.0001/oso-9780198801856-chapter-7.) 2) – Thursday, April 22 (10:00-12:00 GMT) – Koch, S. (2018). “The Externalist Challenge to Conceptual […]

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Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy 2020/21, Session 10

Emma Ingala Complutense University of Madrid Beyond the False Dichotomy between the Symbolic and the Material 16 March 2021, 18h00 (Lisbon Time — GMT+0) Online seminar (Zoom link here)   Abstract In the past two decades, philosophy and the humanities in general have witnessed the rise of a number of approaches that call for a return […]

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