Marco Ruffino University of Campinas Illocutionary Acts in Mathematics 24 June 2019, 11:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Contemporary speech act theory was originally developed by Austin (1962) and further elaborated by Searle (1969, 1975, 1979) as an account of the illocutionary aspects of utterances in ordinary language. […]
Marco Ruffino University of Campinas Contingent A Priori Truths and Performatives 19 June 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: My primary goal in this paper is to defend the plausibility of Kripke’s (1980) thesis that there are contingent a priori truths, and to fill out some gaps […]
SEMINAR SERIES IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY 2018-19: Session 26 Knowledge of Future Contingents Andrea Iacona University of Turin 14 June 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: This talk addresses the question whether future contingents are knowable, that is, whether we can know that things will go a certain way even though […]
Christian Wuthrich University of Geneva Does Spacetime Functionalism Have to be Universal? (based on joint work with Vincent Lam) 7 June 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: In past work, Lam and I have defended spacetime functionalism as a response to the problem of the emergence […]
Several Members of CFUL will participate on the International Conference on Ethics, to be held at the Faculty of Arts – University of Porto (Portugal) on June 19-21 2019. Viriato Soromenho-Marques is Keynote Speaker and Hili Razinsky is Invited Speaker at the conference whilst Maria José Varandas, Maria Luísa Ribeiro Ferreira, Sandra Escobar, and Pedro […]
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Mário Cardoso is one of the speakers at the Conference «Ortega y Gasset: Le Rebelión de las Masas», where he will present the paper «Homem-massa: elevação e decadência» on the 11th of June at 18:00 in Room Timor (Library Building, Catholic University of Portugal). Organization: CEFi (Centro de Estudos de Filosofia) Free attendance. More information […]
Karen Crowther University of Geneva Levels of Fundamentality in the Metaphysics of Physics 31 May 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Judging by how physicists use the term, there are many different conceptions of what it means for a physical theory to be ‘fundamental’. Yet, it has […]
Paulo Borges is launching his new book Presença Ausente. A Saudade na Cultura e no Pensamento Portugueses. Nova Teoria da Saudade at Lisbon Book Fair, on the 4th of June at 18:30. Miguel Real, philosopher and author, is presenting the book. Free attendance.
Fabrizio Boscaglia is one of the co-editors of the Special Issue on Maria Gabriel Llansol e Ibn Arabi of the journal El Azufre Rojo. Revista de Estudios sobre Ibn Arabi/O Enxofre Vermelho. Revista de Estudos sobre Ibn Arabi (available here). Paulo Borges is author of one of the papers.
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Yemima Ben-Menahem Hebrew University of Jerusalem Lawlessness and (a kind of) Freedom 24 May 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: The literature on freedom recognizes two different (and mutually exclusive) understandings of freedom—libertarian freedom and compatibilism. This paper offers a third option—lawlessness. It discusses three forms of […]