Ricardo Miguel LANCOG, University of Lisbon Higher Standards for the Right Labels 29 March 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: The Vegan Trademark, by The Vegan Society, is used to certify that products are suitable for vegans. Despite the benefits of this vegan label, I argue that […]
Diogo Santos LANCOG, University of Lisbon Amending Assessment-Sensitivity 22 March 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: According to Dummett (1978) to understand the point of truth is to understand the normative role it plays in the governing of our asserting practices. Dummett’s approach has influenced Assessment-sensitivity views […]
Raimundo Henriques LANCOG, University of Lisbon Architectural Functionalism and Wittgenstein 15 March 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Intuitively, the austerity of Wittgenstein’s house (1926-28) can be explained by the naïve functionalist hypothesis (NFH), according to which, for all x, if x is a constituent of the house, then […]
António Lopes LANCOG, University of Lisbon Sense and Sensibility: Musical Meaning, Expression and Sincerity in Atonal Serialism 8 March 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Steven Cavell famously asked “Must We Mean What We Say?” (1969). Applied to twelve-tone, serial music, the question would be: must serial […]
Meir Buzaglo Hebrew University of Jerusalem On Proving the Unprovability of God’s Existence 1 March 2019, 15:45 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: In my talk I use “theology” in a narrow sense, i.e., the analysis of proofs for the existence of God. Meta-theology is the study of the […]
Carlos João Correia (Research Group Praxis) is giving a lecture on James Joyce’s Ulysses on April 8th at Capela do Rato (Lisbon). This lectures is part of the course Filosofia, Literatura, Espiritualidades, organized by Maria Luísa Ribeiro Ferreira.
The latest issue has been released in November 2018! Disputatio is the journal of LanCog, and is published by the prestigious publisher De Gruyter. The journal is entirely Open Access. You can access the journal webpages here and here.
The latest issue of Phainomenon is now available (entirely in Open Access)! This issue on Philosophy and Psychopathology: phenomenological perspectives was organized by Elisabeta Basso and gathers several contributions resulting from a conference on the matter. From the Editor’s Introduction: «Over the last twenty years, we have been witnessing in the international context […]
Roberto Giuntini University of Cagliari & Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare Benaminio Segre Yes, No, Perhaps: A Logical Introduction to Quantum Computation 22 February 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Quantum computation has suggested new kinds of logic, which are deeply different both from Boolean logic (the logical background […]
A new issue of the journal Philosophica (52, 2018) has been released! This issue was organized around the intersection of Philosophy and Medicine, focusing on pain and suffering, fitting in the recent and wider discussion of Medical Humanities. From the editor’s introduction (in Portuguese): “Uma dificuldade inicial era determinar e explicar o “objecto” (de […]