Bruno Jacinto LANCOG Universidade de Lisboa Bridge Principles and Purely Epistemic Norms 17 January 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Room Pedro Hispano Abstract: One influential approach to inquiry on the normativity of logic consists in investigating what are the true bridge principles relating claims of logical consequence with norms for belief. Although the question […]
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We are delighted to announce that our member Domingos Faria have won the Philosophy Essay Prize Manuel Barbosa da Costa Freitas, 2017 edition with: “Há boas razões prudenciais para acreditar em Deus? Uma reatualização do argumento de Pascal”
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Guido Imaguire Federal University of Rio de Janeiro A Semantic Criterion for Existential Import 19 December 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Room B1 Abstract: In his book Logic and How It Gets That Way, Jacquette (2010) presents ‘the formalization paradox’ which emerges from the attempt to formalize a sentence like ‘Some monkey devours every craisin’, […]
Guido Imaguire Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Is Ostrich Nominalism a Dismissive Solution to the Problem of Universals? 15 December 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Ostrich Nominalism is often described as a dismissive solution to the problem of universals. This is curious because there is […]
Luís Estevinha Rodrigues Federal University of Ceará Mixed Epistemology, Methodological Naturalism, Gettierization and Explanatory Blindness 24 November 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Henderson & Horgan (2011) defended a middle ground epistemology with three main ingredients: low-grade apriorism, transglobal reliabilism and objective epistemic justification. In this talk […]
Apresentação do livro “O Apocalipse segundo Fernando Pessoa e Ofélia Queiroz” de Paulo Borges, 21 de Novembro, 18:30 Com a presença do autor e recitação de textos por Ângela Santos, Daniela Velho e Maria Paula Lourinho Local: O Coração do Mundo, Av. Duque de Ávila, 95, 3º andar (junto ao Metro Saldanha) A obra é […]
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Filipe Martone University of Campinas / FAPESP Against Sentential and Propositional Priority in Metasemantics 17 November 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: In virtue of what do our words have meaning? It is nearly a truism that words have meaning because they are connected with human actions: […]