Hili Razinsky LANCOG University of Lisbon Interactive Subjects 13 April 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Interpersonal interaction is a pervasive and multifarious phenomenon. I shall delineate some features of the relations between interaction and subjectivity and by the same token argue that neither social ontology nor […]
Raimundo Henriques LANCOG University of Lisbon Ornament and Nonsense 6 April 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: In 1932 Wittgenstein stated that the use of nonsense in philosophy is “in a sense really a requirement of style” and hence similar to the use of ornamentation. The aim […]
Diogo Santos e Ricardo Miguel LANCOG University of Lisbon Reflections on the Mirror 23 March 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: The standard deprivation account of the badness of death is vulnerable to a reformulation of the Mirror Image Argument. Together with a plausible principle linking values […]
Rui Silva University of the Azores Naturalism and Normativism in the Theory of Rationality 16 March 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: According to a traditional and influential view, human beings are rational beings and the norms of human rationality are given by normative theories like logic, […]
André Santos Campos New University of Lisbon, IFILNOVA Rights of Future Persons and the Non-Identity Problem 9 March 2018, 15:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: This talk aims at identifying the challenges posed by the non-identity problem to the idea of rights of future persons. Firstly, I will […]
Zach Weber University of Otago At the Limits of Thought 26 February 2018, 16:30 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Room 2.13 Abstract: The Inclosure Schema, proposed by Priest, suggests that many famous paradoxes are caused by the collision of “transcendence” and “closure” at the limits of thought. The Schema is, prima facie, a unified and […]
Stewart Shapiro Ohio State University Making Truth Safe For Intuitionists (joint work with Andrew Tedder) 21 February 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Room 2.13 Abstract: We consider a handful of solutions to the liar paradox which admit a naive truth predicate and employ a non-classical logic, and which include a proposal for classical […]
Graham Priest City University of New York Logic and Metaphysics: an Observation in Metametaphysics 26 February 2018, 14:30 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Room 2.13 Abstract: In this talk I will demonstrate a connection between logic (qua theory) and metaphysics. A number of historical case studies show clearly that these two things are intimately entangled. […]
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