Lena Kastner: Thursday Seminar
Seminar
Lena Kästner (HU Berlin/Saarbrücken): "How to Create a Mechanism Mosaic?" Integration is a grand challenge for many contemporary research endeavors. Although mechanistic explanations capitalize on a multi-level approach to explanation, it is often unclear how exactly different mechanistic…
JD Trout: Explanation, Truthiness, and the False Climb to Knowledge
Seminar
Abstract: Drawing on themes from Wondrous Truths – from epistemic contingency in the history of science and the drab status of IBE as mere induction, to the sense of understanding and an ontic account of explanation – I argue that these provide unanticipated support for a realist interpretation of…
Scientific Modelling: Pushing the boundaries workshop
Workshop
Leading philosophers of science present the latest research on scientific modelling. 09:00 - 09:15 - Intro & Welcome 09:15 - 10:30 - Joshua Luczak "Statistical Mechanical Toy Models: Not Just Toying Around" 10:30 - 11:00 - Morning Tea 11:00 - 12:15 - John Matthewson "…
Normative Externalism workshop
Workshop
Schedule 9:00 Coffee, Tea 9:30 - 10:30 Hannah Tierney (USyd), discussing Chapter 3 (on Guilt and Shame) 10:30 - 11:30 Neil Levy (Macquarie), discussing Chapter 5 (on Moral Ignorance and Blame) Lunch (Catered) 12:30 - 1:30 Brian Hedden (USyd), discussing Chapter 6 (on Double Standards) 1:30 -…
Peter Clutton: 'Doxastic States: Intentionality, Phenomenology, Pathology'
Seminar
I present an overview of my project on doxastic states. I also discuss three specific papers in more detail, and their contribution to the overall project. One paper is a problem-making paper for phenomenal intentionality theories. Resolving this problem in a coherent way is a topic of ongoing work…
Ishani Maitra (Michigan): Linguistic injustice
Seminar
Abstract: Recent work in philosophy has brought to light several ways in which attempts to perform speech acts can go wrong. The phenomena here include illocutionary silencing, ineffability, sincerity silencing, discursive injustice, and much more. In this paper, I consider how speakers are wronged…
Ishani Maitra (Michigan): Lying and deception: A happy marriage
Seminar
Abstract: Traditionally, lying has been understood to involve an intention to deceive. There is a long history, going all the way back to Augustine, that characterises lying this way. More recently, however, a series of examples have been proposed to show that lying involves no such intention. In…