The Scope of Scorekeeping
Seminar
14 August, 3:30-5:30pm Sir Rowland Wilson Building, Room 1.02 Josh Armstrong The Scope of Scorekeeping Wittgenstein famously remarked that words are deeds. Contemporary work in semantics and pragmatics reflects this insight in modeling interpersonal communication as a process of updating a…
The Ethics of Sanctuary in Democratic States - Patti Tamara Lenard (Ottawa)
Seminar
I argue that the vast majority of policies adopted under the banner of ‘sanctuary’ are justified in and of themselves. The central objection that people offer to sanctuary policies is that they somehow serve to interfere with a state’s ability to control entry and exit of a territory, i.e., with a…
Ryan Muldoon (Buffalo): Veil of Ignorance Arguments and the Limits of Justification
Seminar
Ryan Muldoon (Buffalo) Veil of Ignorance Arguments and the Limits of Justification Abstract: Veil of Ignorance arguments have frequently been deployed to provide a justification for principles of justice. Their appeal is clear: behind the veil, agents only have access to morally relevant…
Celebration of Kim Sterelny's Laureate Project
Workshop
On August 6th-8th, the School of Philosophy and the Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences held a workshop to celebrate the completion of Kim Sterelny's Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project "The Origins of Social Inequality, Hierarchy, and Social Complexity.” Over the three days,…
Passmore Lecture
Lecture
2018 Passmore Lecture “Ambivalence about forgiveness" Professor Miranda Fricker Presidential Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Centre, City University of New York Abstract: Our ideas about forgiveness seem to oscillate between idealization and scepticism. One might think this simply indicates…
Feasibility and Collectives Workshop
Workshop
WORKSHOP: OUGHTS AND CANS FOR GROUPS Commonsense suggests that what we ought to do is somehow constrained or conditioned by what we can do or what is feasible. Yet it remains unclear how we should understand this requirement and its constituents in the case of groups - especially relatively…
Cecilia Heyes "Cognitive Gadgets": Author-Meets-Critics Symposium
Symposium
Join Cecilia Heyes and the Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences for an author-meets-critics symposium on her new book Cognitive Gadgets: the Cultural Evolution of Thinking, from Harvard University Press.Schedule: 9:30-10:00 Cecilia Heyes (Oxford University)10:00-10:30 Morning tea10:30-11:15…