Space & Number in Animal Minds
Workshop
This workshop brings together scientists and philosophers who are interested in how animals represent properties like distance, location, time, and number. The goal is to pursue a richer understanding of how brain and behaviour intersect in natural contexts (e.g. in navigation tasks) and assess the…
A Control Theory of Action - Mikayla Kelley
Seminar
Speaker: Mikayla Kelley One of the central problems in the philosophy of action is to spell out the distinction between action and what merely happens, e.g., a wink versus an eye twitch. This talk proposes a theory of action offering an account of this distinction. The central claim of…
Options must be internal (but don’t blame me if I don’t always do what I ought) - Toby Solomon
Seminar
Speaker: Toby Solomon Abstract: Many people believe that ought implies can. However, when the ``ought’’ in question is the ``ought’’ of ``rationally ought’’ there is a tension between this thesis and another—that the demands of rationality should be first-person accessible. Or, in other…
Knowledge and Algorithmic Predictions in the Legal Realm - Eleonora Cresto
Seminar
Speaker: Eleanora Cresto In this talk I discuss the epistemic status of algorithmic predictions in the legal realm. I make two main claims. My first claim is that algorithmic predictions do not give us knowledge – not even probabilistic knowledge. The situation, however, is relevantly…
Power, Costs, Collective Action, and Solidarity: A Footnote to ‘Two Logics of Collective - Arash Abizadeh
Seminar
Speaker: Arash Abizadeh It has seemed to some that the more costly it would be to exercise one’s agential power over some issue, the less agential power one has. I argue against this cost thesis and diagnose the intuition behind it as reflecting a truth about having general-power over a…
Experiments of Living Constitutionalism
Lecture
Experiments of Living Constitutionalism urges that the Constitution should be interpreted so as to allow both individuals and groups to experiment with different ways of living, whether we are speaking of religious practices, family arrangements, political associations, civic associations, child-…
Social Scripts - Tom Dougherty
Seminar
Speaker: Tom Dougherty Social scripts specify the normal way for people to interact in certain situations. For example, a social script for a restaurant conversation explains why the world over, these conversations take a similar form. I will discuss what social scripts are, how they shape…