Perceptual Capacities
Conference
The conference is open to all who are interested. No registration is required. To be a perceiver, at least on one traditional conception, is to possess certain capacities, to perceive is to exercise those capacities, and perceiving correctly requires that one exercise those…
Steve Clarke (Oxford), "The Neuroscience of Decision Making and Our Standards for Assessing Competence to Consent"
Activity
Rapid advances in neuroscience may enable us to identify the neural correlates of ordinary decision making. Such knowledge opens up the possibility of acquiring highly accurate information about people’s competence to consent to medical procedures and to participate in clinical trials. Currently we…
Gabriel Rabin (UCLA): Supplementation, Meta-semantics, and Modal Arguments against Physicalism
Other
Abstract: The supplementation question asks: "How does one turn a necessitation base (a set of facts that necessitates all facts) into an a priori entailment base (a set of facts that a priori entails all facts)?" An answer to the supplementation question turns on one's views in meta-…
Holly Smith (Rutgers), "Non-Tracing Cases of Culpable Ignorance"
Other
Recent writers on negligence and culpable ignorance have argued that there are two kinds of culpable ignorance: tracing cases, in which the agent’s ignorance traces back to some culpable act or omission of hers in the past that led to the current act, which therefore arguably inherits the…