Lifetime Prerogatives and Moral Offsetting - Theron Pummer (University of Saint Andrews)
Seminar
Speaker: Theron Pummer Our everyday lives are filled with constant opportunities to help anonymous strangers, by giving to charity, volunteering, and so on. They are also filled with constant opportunities to reduce the harm we do to anonymous strangers, via our carbon emissions,…
Failing to Tell the Truth: A Transparent Approach to Truth-Tellers, Liars, and Curry
Seminar
The first sentence in this abstract is true. What does the previous sentence—a contingent truth-teller—say? Well, truth is transparent: to say a sentence is true is just to reassert what that sentence said. Hence, to fully determine what a sentence says—what proposition it expresses—we…
Belonging to the Future - Susan Brison (Dartmouth / Princeton)
Seminar
Speaker: Susan Brison This talk was sparked by my recently reading Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus for the first time since high school. I’d never forgotten the first two sentences: “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not…
Alethic Paradoxes and Epistemology
Seminar
Please note that this talk is moved to Lectorial 1 on the ground floor of the RSSS building. In my talk, I will introduce the Buddhist epistemological analysis of the liar paradox by situating this analysis in the context of contemporary studies of paradoxes. I will start with defining a paradox…
Magnets, How Do They Work?
Seminar
According to reference magnetism, there are facts independent from our psychology and conventions which make certain things more eligible (or magnetic) to be the targets of our thought and talk, constraining content. In this paper, we clarify how these magnets would need to work in order…
Feb 8 - TBC
Seminar
Speaker TBC 12–1PM 8 FEBRUARY 2023 Location: RSSS room 6.71 or online via this Zoom link Paper title, details for accessing the paper and session details will be circulated through the Philsoc-l mailing list, which you can subscribe to here.
Sarah McGrath (Princeton)
Seminar
Sarah McGrath (Princeton) 12–1PM 9 DECEMBER 2022 Location: RSSS room 6.71 or online via this Zoom link Paper title, details for accessing the paper and session details will be circulated through the Philsoc-l mailing list, which you can subscribe to here.