Elia Zardini Universidade de Lisboa One, and Only One 7 April 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Standard non-classical (i.e. non-substructural) solutions to the semantic paradoxes of truth deny either the law of excluded middle or the law of non-contradiction; in so doing, they either reject both […]
Javier Cumpa Universidad Complutense de Madrid Categories and the Question of Ontology 31 March 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Is the question of ontology a search for the categories of the world? Is structure a fundamental and indispensable category of the world? Ontological categories of structure […]
A segunda edição revista e aumentada do livro “Memórias Socráticas” de Johann Georg Hamann, tradução, notas, cronologia e posfácio de José Miranda Justo já se encontra disponível no Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa.
Sanna Hirvonen University of Oxford The New Error Theory 24 March 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: An error theory for some particular expression holds that its semantics is truth-conditional and it is used in non-fictional assertoric judgments, but these systematically fail to be true. Most well-known […]
Tommazo Piazza (Università di Pavia) May 23 and 25 14:00-16:00
Bogdan Dicher University of Cagliari Defending Multiple Conclusions 24 March 2017, 12:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Arguments are usually understood as having one or more premises and only one conclusion. A generalisation of this notion allows for several disjunctively connected conclusions. This is a contentious generalisation; I […]
We are delighted to announce that two of our members, Diogo Santos and Ricardo Miguel, have won the Philosophy Essay Prize of Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia, 2016 edition. more information
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Pedro Santos Universidade do Algarve Are there any embedded conversational implicatures? 10 March 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: There is a well-known kind of objection to Grice’s account of conversational implicatures (CI) — one which, while not threatening the very notion, identifies a problem with the […]
João Cardoso Rosas Universidade do Minho Naturalism, Consensus and Practice in the Philosophy of Human Rights 3 March 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Human rights philosophies are nowadays often divided into three basic categories: naturalism; consensus theories; and the practical or “political” approach. In addition, these […]
The Proceedings of the International Conference on Robot Ethics, held in Lisbon on October 23 and 24, 2015, has been published . More information