Liberalism as a Way of Life - Alexandre Lefebvre
Seminar
This presentation is based on Professor Lefebvre's new book, Liberalism as a Way of Life, and about how liberal values and practices can be the basis for a personal worldview, way of living, and spiritual orientation. You don’t have to be liberal and something else, such as Christian, Buddhist…
How Many Empathies Are There? A Puzzle About Co-Experienced Emotions - Heidi Maibom
Seminar
Anybody familiar with the empathy literature will know that everybody’s busy distinguishing one form of empathy from others. And whereas it would certainly be helpful to agree on what the major distinctions are and what to call them, it remains a fact that many, if not most, empathic episodes are…
Compositionality in Deep Neural Networks - Raphaël Millière
Seminar
Computation over compositionally structured representations is central to linguistic processing and cognition. Classical models readily account for this capacity through discrete symbolic representations that can be combined into complex representations with constituent structure. By contrast, it…
Engineering Conceptual Prototypes - Rachel Rudolph
Seminar
Discussion of conceptual engineering within philosophy tends to focus on changes to concepts that result in changes in their extensions. Consider, e.g., changing the concept RAPE to include marital rape. This neglects a prominent view of concepts from psychology, namely Prototype Theory. Conceptual…
Justice in Gestation and Moral Integrity: A Dilemma - Luara Ferracioli
Seminar
Political philosophers have recently turned to the topic of justice in gestation, emphasising that the uterine environment contributes to future health outcomes and talents enjoyed in adulthood. In this presentation, Luara will argue that bringing justice to bear on gestation is more…
How to theorise about social construction - Brian Epstein
Seminar
The claim that basic kinds and categories in the world are “socially constructed” is perennially debated in philosophy and social theory. Over the years, lots of categories—races, genders, sexes, morality, commodities, corporations, and many more—have been put forward as cases of social…
A Genealogical Argument for Radical Moral Encroachment - Brandon Yip
Seminar
According to radical moral encroachment, certain moral considerations encroach on epistemic norms to avoid making conflicting demands on agents. In this paper, we provide a genealogical argument for this view by focusing on the kinds of doxastic wrongs that involve forming beliefs based on…