Tertiary Ethics Olympiad - Information Session
Meeting
The International Tertiary Ethics Olympiad is a debate-style competition. Across three heats, teams are scored on respectful, collaborative discussion of issues in applied ethics (e.g. ethically noxious art, sexual harassment, migration ethics). Two teams will be selected from interested…
Global Climate Policy for Philosophers
Conference
This presentation is an overview of the Global Climate Regime: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and various bilateral, sub-national, and private sector agreements that together constitute global climate…
Concept-driven suppositional thinking - Nick Shea (University of London)
Seminar
Speaker: Nick Shea Abstract: Work on concepts has concentrated on categorization. Categorization is a process that starts with perceptual representations and other special-purpose resources, transitioning from these to a conceptual representation. Just as important, however, are…
From Causal Reasoning to Scientific Thinking
Seminar
Young children have remarkable capacities for causal reasoning, which are part of the foundation of their scientific thinking abilities. In Constructing Science, Deena Weisberg and David Sobel trace the ways that young children's sophisticated causal reasoning abilities combine with other…
Centering Update - Isaac Wilhelm (NUS)
Seminar
Speaker: Isaac Wilhelm Abstract: How should agents change their credences after learning centered propositions like ``It is morning'' or ``I am late''? How should agents update, that is, on centered information? In this paper, I use tools developed in the accuracy literature…
Truth or Fiction in Historical Research: Finding a Middle Ground
Workshop
Historical explanations require the interpretation of incomplete traces of the past. We generally conceive of history as a truth-telling practice, while recognising that the degree of interpretative work that is required means that the truthfulness of a given history is often uncertain. This …
Three Arguments for Inner Awareness - Matt Duncan (Rhode Island College)
Seminar
Speaker: Matt Duncan Abstract: Many philosophers claim that a mental state is phenomenally conscious only if its subject is aware of it. However, Daniel Stoljar (2021) argues that, despite its popularity, there is no persuasive argument for this claim. In this paper, I address this alleged…