Peter Sullivan University of Stirling Anscombe’s ‘Retractation’: A Reconsideration of Ramsey and the Tractatus 29 November 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: In 1965 Elizabeth Anscombe published a short paper in Analysis, ‘Retractation’, in which she reviewed and revised important aspects of the interpretation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus […]
José Manuel Mestre LANCOG & University of Stirling Whence the Paralysis? 22 November 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: In the spring of 1913, Wittgenstein presented Russell with an objection to his multiple relation theory of judgement that supposedly ‘paralysed’ him. The fact that there is no […]
Elia Zardini Complutense University of Madrid Open Knowledge of One’s Inexact Knowledge 15 November 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: The paper presents an overarching argument to the effect that, given a certain attractive picture according to which—in certain situations, for certain obviously true propositions—(being in a […]
Mark Jago University of Nottingham Metaphysical Structure 15 November 2019, 10:30 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Metaphysical structure is the way things hang together, in and of themselves, and aside from their causes and effects and propensities to behave. Examples include: truth depending on reality, the mind depending […]
Jussi Suikkanen University of Birmingham Normative Judgments, Motivation and Evolution 8 November 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: I begin from a new taxonomy of the views that relate normative judgments to motivation. According to one state views, a positive normative judgment concerning an action consists in […]
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Hili Razinsky LANCOG, University of Lisbon Reconsidering Linguistic Communication 25 October 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Communication is at the heart of language, but philosophy of language’s historical focus on objectivity on the one hand and the individual subject on the other tends to bias the […]
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Tommaso Piazza University of Pavia & LanCog Second Thoughts on Pollock’s Notion of a Defeater 11 October 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: In this talk I re-examine Pollock’s general characterization of a defeater (DEF), and Chandler 2013’s (until now unchallenged) objection against it. Chandler’s objection takes the […]
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Professor Marita Rainsborough (CFUL) in Lisbon: “Rethinking Foucault: Dialogues, Dissidence and Experimentations” Three different sessions on the 9th, 10th and 11th of October 2019 Room B2 (Library Building) Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon
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Dina Mendonça IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon Situated Approach to Emotions and Emotional Depth 4 October 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: The paper shows how the Situated Approach to Emotions can better grasp the notion of emotional depth. The first part puts forward the general frame […]
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André J. Abath Fedeeral University of Minas Gerais On Knowing What Something Is: Towards an Account of Concept Attributions 20 September 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: In recent years, attributions of knowledge-wh—knowledge who, what, when, where, which, why etc.—have attracted much attention from philosophers and linguists […]
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