Brian Hedden (ANU): Multidimensionality and Disparate Scale Types
Seminar
Abstract: Multidimensionality is everywhere: in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind, as well as a host of domains outside philosophy. Many ethicists are pluralists about value, holding that whether one state of affairs is better than another…
Fittingness, Practice, and Emotion
Seminar
Fitting attitude analyses of value aim to analyse various kinds of value in terms of fitting attitudes. Thus, for example, something is disgusting if and only if disgust is a fitting response towards it. One question for this approach is to explain what it means for some property to make some other…
New Work in Cultural and Social Evolution
Conference
We are a culture-soaked species; the accumulated information, ideas and knowledge we inherit from those who have come before us are key to understanding who we are and how we came to be. Getting an empirical grip on past and present human cultures and the evolutionary and social dynamics within…
Trivial, interesting, or overselling? The microbiome and ‘what it means to be human’
Seminar
Abstract: Microbiome research analyses the microbial communities living in host organisms and other environments. The field has taken off in recent years with an abundance of claims about the human microbiome’s causal role in everything from our physical health and disease states, to our…
Philosophy Seminar: The Conceptual Space Between Health and Disease
Seminar
Philosophy Seminar Wednesday, October 21, 12:00 - 1:30. (Roughly 45 minutes talk, 45 minutes Q & A.) John Matthewson The conceptual space between health and disease (Co-authored with Simon Keller) Abstract Disease and health are not conceptually opposed, as theorists in the…
Incorporating Fairness in Two-Sided Online Platforms
Seminar
Abhijnan Chakraborty, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, will give the ninth HMI Data, AI and Society public seminar. Abhijnan Chakraborty is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Germany, and will soon join the Indian Institute of…
Trust, Belief and Action
Webinar/Online
The MSPT grad workshop returns with a TPR talk by Jennifer Munt. The title of the talk is "Trust, Belief, and Action". Abstract of the talk is below at the end of this e-mail. The talk will be held this Friday, 18th of September from 4pm to 5.30pm. …