Antony Eagle (Adelaide): ‘The Open Future’
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Abstract: A contrast between the settled past and the open future is essential to deliberation, free agency, and our basic conception of time and change. Metaphors—e.g., time as a garden of forking paths—gesture at the contrast, but an accurate and precise account of it is yet to be produced. I…
Chad Lee-Stronach (ANU): Legitimate Authority as a Modally Demanding Status
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Authorities purport to rightfully possess the power to give their subjects reasons to obey their directives. Whether they legitimately possess this normative power depends on whether the relevant justificatory standard is satisfied. Whatever the content of this standard, need it only be satisfied…
The Power of Images | Peter Herbst Seminars 2013 : Nancy and Mondzain on Image and Violence
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After briefly reviewing the perspectives of philosophers like Bergson, Sartre, Levinas and Deleuze we shall focus on the question of the relationship between Image and Violence as discussed in the more recent works of Jean-Luc Nancy and Marie José Mondzain. Unlike language, Nancy notes that image…
Arif Ahmed (University of Cambridge): Causal Decision Theory and the agent's perspective
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Many philosophers, including Kant and Ramsey but also more recent advocates of 'Causal Decision Theory', think that whilst 'mere' observation never reveals a causal relation distinct from statistical co-variation, practical engagement forces us to concern ourselves with it. That claim is false.…