Evidentially Hedged Assertions Dario Mortini (LOGOS, University of Barcelona)   25 October 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: Speakers make evidentially hedged assertions whenever they weaken commitment to what they assert in virtue of disclosing imperfectly reliable sources of evidence in their assertions. A […]

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Adrian Razvan Sandru MainenLab – Champalimaud Foundation Re-presenting the Familiar – The Cognitive and Moral Role of Art in Kant’s Aesthetic Theory 22 October 2024, 17h00 (Lisbon Summer Time — GMT+1) Sala Mattos Romão (Room C201.J – Department of Philosophy) School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon   Abstract Starting from Kant’s statement […]

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Reliability and Closure Sven Rosenkranz (LOGOS, University of Barcelona)   18 October 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: First, we argue that to make room for the closure of epistemic justification under competent deduction, reliabilists had better endorse the principle that the […]

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Objective Disagreement and Perspectival Differences Matheus Valente (LanCog, Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon)   4 October 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: Could rationality require you and I to disagree about something objective like the outcome of a coin toss even if, […]

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Inclusivity and dense connectivity: tensions between two democratic ideals Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)   2o September 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: Two widely discussed liberal democratic ideals are inclusivity and dense connectivity (to ensure extensive interaction among citizens). Inclusivity is a foundational democratic […]

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Argument Rodizio   05 July 2024, 15:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia)   The Argument Rodizio is a session in which each participant presents a short, desirably surprising, argument in 5-10 minutes, to be discussed in the following 5-10 minutes.   Abstract:   Robert Michels […]

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The Curse of Satisfaction: Paradoxes of Desire Ronald de Sousa (University of Toronto)   28 June 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: Plato was perhaps the first but certainly not the last philosopher to take a dim view of desire. Lust, in […]

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Biologically Autonomous Teleosemantics Carl B. Sachs (Marymount University)   14 June 2024, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)   Abstract: Teleosemantics remains one of the more promising approaches to naturalizing semantic content. Two long-standing objections to teleosemantics are the normativity objection and the intensionality objection. […]

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    LanCog is pleased to announce that the 2024 Petrus Hispanus Lectures will be delivered by Professor Susan Schneider (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton), on June 25th and 27th.   Abstract The topic of these talks is the Global Brain Hypothesis, according to which, in the near future, humans will become nodes in a distributed information […]

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