Ulrich Meyer (Colgate): "Theories of Presentness"
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Title: Theories of Presentness Abstract: This paper argues that there is no property of presentness that only one time possesses, and whose possession makes it the case that that time is present. This is in contrast with the modal case, where actualism would provide for such a principled…
Sharon Berry (ANU): Justification, Probability and Strong vs. Weak External World Skepticism
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Title: Justification, Probability and Strong vs. Weak External World Skepticism Abstract: Contemporary discussion of the epistemology of lotteries has raised the possibility that knowledge can come apart from justified high confidence in a true proposition - even in cases where there is no…
Politics and the Image of Humanity
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The coffin of Abul Jafari, drowned at sea on July 12th and carried from Christmas Island to burial in Melbourne, has been presented by The Australian newspaper (July 31) as “the defining image of the asylum-seeker debate in 2013”. After wide-spread lamenting of the baby’s death in the public…