Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa LanCog Group (Language, Mind and Cognition Research Group) Centro de Matemática, Aplicações Fundamentais e Investigação Operacional CMAF-CIO Hartry Field New York University Generalizing Fuzzy Logic for Semantic Paradoxes (and Vagueness) 20 May 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Building C6, 2nd floor, room 6.2.33 […]
Hartry Field New York University Epistemology from a “Naturalistic” (but not Reliabilist) Perspective 17 May 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: I’ll advocate an obvious-sounding approach to epistemology, that involves developing general models of possible epistemic practices and critically evaluating which of those practices are likely to […]
Alan Weir University of Glasgow Mereological Naïve Realism 10 May 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: One virtue of sense datum theories is their phenomenological accuracy: when I see, imagine, dream or hallucinate a dodecagon, there is a twelve-sided figure in my mind. At any rate, if that […]
Carlos João Correia is one of the speakers of the round table on the 20th anniversary of the film The Matrix. It is an initiative of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. More info here.
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Elena Dragalina-Chernaya Higher School of Economics, Moscow Logical Hylomorphism, Internal Relations, and Analyticity 3 May 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: The key concern of this paper is the placing of several approaches to internal relations, analyticity, and logicality in a framework of the distinction between substantial […]
Pedro Calafate is going to speak at the conference L’invenzione del passato nel XVIII secolo to be held in Rimini, Italy on the 27th-29th of May. His talk is intitled «The Evaluative and Pragmatic History of the Enlightenment Project in Portugal».
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We are glad to announce that Paulo Borges was awarded the Premio Ibn Arabi – Taryumán 2019! The award ceremony will be held in Ávila, Spain on the next 11th of May. The ceremony is part of the «International Symposium Ibn Arabi de Mias-Latina: Poesía y Percepción Interior (Shi’r wa-shu’ûr) en Ibn Arabi y la Literatura […]
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We are glad to announce that Isabel Ferreira, a researcher at CFUL (LanCog) and ISR is one of the editors and author of two chapters of the book Robotics and Well-Being published by the prestigious publisher Springer.
Constantine Sandis University of Hertfordshire If A Lion Could Speak… 11 April 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: How can we be confident that we have correctly understood someone – or that they, in turn, have understood us? Wittgenstein quipped that “if a lion could speak, we could […]
Vitalij Dolgorukov Higher School of Economics, Moscow Irony, Deception and Lying: an Epistemic Taxonomy for Assertions 5 April 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: We aim to present a taxonomy for assertions, describing both cooperative and non-cooperative types of the speaker’s behaviour. Our model involves the combination […]