Past events
21
Sep
2023
Nature, Artifice, and Discovery in Descartes’ Mechanical Philosophy
Speaker: Deborah Brown
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It is often assumed that in the early modern collapse of the Aristotelian distinction between art and nature,...
14
Sep
2023
Kraemer’s Puzzle and the Theory of Intentional Action - Kyle Blumberg
Speaker: Kyle Blumberg
Jane is given the opportunity to push a button which will send a lethal arrow shooting down one of ten specified paths. Jane has no...
14
Sep
2023
Space & Number in Animal Minds
This workshop brings together scientists and philosophers who are interested in how animals represent properties like distance, location, time, and number. The...
31
Aug
2023
A Control Theory of Action - Mikayla Kelley
Speaker: Mikayla Kelley
One of the central problems in the philosophy of action is to spell out the distinction between action and what merely happens, e.g...
24
Aug
2023
Options must be internal (but don’t blame me if I don’t always do what I ought) - Toby Solomon
Speaker: Toby Solomon
Abstract: Many people believe that ought implies can. However, when the ``ought’’ in question is the ``ought’’ of ``rationally ought’’...
17
Aug
2023
Knowledge and Algorithmic Predictions in the Legal Realm - Eleonora Cresto
Speaker: Eleanora Cresto
In this talk I discuss the epistemic status of algorithmic predictions in the legal realm. I make two main claims. My first claim is...
10
Aug
2023
Power, Costs, Collective Action, and Solidarity: A Footnote to ‘Two Logics of Collective - Arash Abizadeh
Speaker: Arash Abizadeh
It has seemed to some that the more costly it would be to exercise one’s agential power over some issue, the less agential power one...
