Richard Creath (Arizona State University) will be giving his talk on Friday, October 2, 2015 in BUCH A202 at 3pm. TITLE: Carnap and Ontology: Foreign Travel and Domestic Understanding ABSTRACT: L.P. Hartly once wrote: “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” The past is foreign to many of us, and people […]
Bronwyn Finnigan will be giving her talk on Friday, September 11 2015, in BUCH A202 at 3pm. TITLE: Inciting Fear to Achieve Fearlessness: A puzzle in Buddhist moral psychology ABSTRACT: Buddhists hold that fear is a root of much suffering. In his Bodhicaryāvatāra, Śāntideva provides a series of provocative verses aimed at inciting fear (bhaya) […]
Nick Riggle (New York University) will be giving his talk on Friday September 25, 2015 in BUCH A202 at 3pm. TITLE: Beauty and Love ABSTRACT: The recent literature on love focuses largely on a kind of response, attitude, or relation we have exclusively to persons. But there is a long tradition in aesthetics according to […]
Dan Steel (UBC) will be giving his talk on Friday, October 16, 2015, in BUCH A202 at 3pm. TITLE: Confronting Ibsen’s Predicament: Epistemic Priority versus Aims Approaches to Values in Science ABSTRACT: This essay examines epistemic priority and aims approaches to values in science. Epistemic priority approaches permit influences of values if they do not […]
Marshall Abrams (University of Alabama) will be giving his talk on Friday, October 23, 2015 in BUCH A202 at 3pm. TITLE: Probability in mechanistic explanation ABSTRACT: The widespread use of mechanism concepts in scientific research has been the focus of much work in recent philosophy of science. It’s become clear that the widely-cited account of […]
Holger Andreas (UBC Okanagan) will be giving his talk on Friday November 13, 2015 in BUCH A202, at 3pm. TITLE: Analyzing Causation by the Ramsey Test ABSTRACT: This is an attempt at an epistemic approach to causation, which is in the tradition of Hume and Kant. Our starting point is the Ramsey Test semantics of […]
Abstract: Conceptual Amelioration: Going on, Not in the Same Way
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Abstract: Fundamental Counterparts
Why Can’t I Change Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony?