Philosophie – UNESCO Teresa Marques How philosophy of language can help us navigate the political news cycle The conference will show that contemporary philosophy of language has tools that can help us understand political speech, in particular, it can help us understand not only what we’re told by politicians and pundits in their public statements to […]
Michel Croce University of Edinburgh On What It Takes to Be An Expert 9 November 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Recent works in epistemology have shown how challenging it is to define what it takes for one to be a cognitive expert in some field. Starting from […]
Javier Gonzalez de Prado Salas IFILNOVA & UNED How to Doubt Yourself Rationally 26 October 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Higher-order evidence can make an agent rationally doubt the reliability of her reasoning. When this happens, it seems that the agent should adopt a cautious attitude […]
Fernando Broncano-Berrocal Autonomous University of Madrid Lottery Propositions and Unsafe Doubts 19 October 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: It is fair to say that views based on the safety principle (if an agent S knows a proposition p, not easily would S have believed that p […]
We congratulate Elton Marques for finishing his PhD! Elton’s PhD thesis, Sobre Determinismo e Eternismo: argumentos e relações possíveis entre teses [On Determinism and Eternalism: Arguments and Possible Relations between Thesis] was successfully defended at the University of Lisbon.
We are delighted to announce that one of our members, Soraya Nour Sckell, has won the award Wolfgang-Kaupen, This award is given annually to the author of a scientific article in sociology of law that is considered as the best one by the Section Sociology of Law of the German Society for Sociology (Sektion Rechtssoziologie der Deutschen […]
Unconscious Pains and Unconscious Suffering Sam Coleman University of Hertfordshire 21 September 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: I will distinguish a few different kinds of suffering, zeroing in on one that involves the ‘intrinsic’ qualitative character of a mental/bodily state, paradigmatically exemplified in the case of suffering […]
New issue here This issue of philosophy@LISBON journal transcribes the minutes of the Conference: “Colóquio Marx: as misérias da filosofia”, that took place at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa) on 28 and 29 November 2017. It is thus a thematic number, dedicated in this case […]
Tommaso Piazza University of Pavia & LanCog The Many Ways of The Basing Relation 22 June 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: S’s belief that P is said to be doxastically justified if and only if S believes that P and this belief is based on a […]
Rachael Wiseman University of Liverpool Self-Knowledge Without Self-Ascription 15 June 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Thoughts that are candidates for self-knowledge are typically expressed using sentences with ‘I’ as the grammatical subject followed by a predicate-expression that contains a psychological verb and its object. ‘I see […]