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Philosophy colloquium, Bence Nanay
The Fragmented Mind By Bence Nanay (Antwerp & Cambridge) Date: Thursday 24th October Time: tba Place: tba Abstract: You are bored during this talk, do you check your phone or […]
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Philosophy colloquium, Chris Brown
“Exclusion endures: How compatibilism allows dualists to bypass the causal closure argument” By Chris Brown (CUNY Graduate Center, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday 21st May, 2019 Time: 1500-1645 Place: H-232 Abstract: Jaegwon Kim […]
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Philosophy colloquium, Walter Veit
“Ecological Scaffolding and Natural Selection” By Walter Veit (Bristol, Philosophy) Date: Thursday, 16th May, 2019 Time: 1640-1800 Place: A-130 Abstract: For decades Darwinian processes were framed in the form of the Lewontin conditions: […]
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Philosophy colloquium, Fatema Amijee
“Explaining Contingent Facts” By Fatema Amijee (SFU, Philosophy) Date: Friday, 15th February, 2019 Time: 1100-1230 Place: H-232 Abstract: I argue against a widely accepted principle taken to govern metaphysical explanation. This is […]
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Philosophy colloquium, Poppy Mankowitz
“Verbal Disputes and Variance” By Poppy Mankowitz (St Andrews, Philosophy) Date: Friday, 1st March, 2019 Time: 1100-1230 Place: H-232 Abstract: There has been much recent interest in the idea that, when philosophers disagree […]
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Philosophy colloquium, Alexander Skiles
“Essence, Modality, and Identity” By Alexander Skiles (MIT, Linguistics and Philosophy/ University of Gothenburg, Philosophy) Date: Friday, 22nd February, 2019 Time: 1100-1230 Place: H-232 Abstract: In this talk, I defend an essentialist account of […]
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Philosophy colloquium, Daniel Wolt
“Two conceptions of voluntary action in the Nicomachean Ethics” By Daniel Wolt (University of Colorado at Boulder, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday, 19th February, 2019 Time: 1640-1800 Place: H-232 Abstract: It is nearly universally agreed […]
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Philosophy colloquium, Daniel Hoek
“Questions in Action” By Daniel Hoek (NYU, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday, 12 February, 2019 Time: 1640-1800 Place: H-232 Abstract: Choices confront agents with questions. Lost in a dark forest and coming […]
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Philosophy colloquium, Katalin Balog
“Either/or: subjectivity, objectivity, and value” By Katalin Balog (Rutgers, Philosophy) Date: Wednesday, 15 May, 2019 Time: 1640-1800 Place: H-232 Abstract: I propose a novel framework in philosophical psychology – one […]
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Philosophy colloquium, Cem Erkli
“A Complementary Scientific Approach to Eratosthenes’ Calculation of the Earth’s Circumference” By Cem Erkli (Simon Fraser University, Philosophy) Date: Thursday, 20 December, 2018 Time: 1640-1800 Place: H-232 Abstract: Eratosthenes (276 […]
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