Event Archive

Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)Title: Modal Empiricism: What Is the Problem?Abstract: In his introduction to the Critique, Kant contends that necessity is a criterion of the a priori—that is, that all knowledge of necessary propositions is a priori. This contention, together with two others that Kant took to be evident—we...

Philosophy Colloquium w/ Stephan Leuenberger (Glasgow)Title: Scrutability and the Problem of Cross-Family QuantificationAbstract: In Constructing the World, David Chalmers aims to defend strong reductionist claims he calls "scrutability theses". One such thesis says, roughly speaking, that every truth about the world could, in principle, be "read off" a complete list...

Mr Davide Monaco (Aberdeen) Title: "A new account of the objective-formal distinction in Spinoza’s parallelism theory"

22 February 2017, 15:00 - 16:00, Philosophy Colloquium w/ Katherine Hawley (St Andrews), Title: What are Social Groups?

Emilio Di Somma "The Buffered Self in Taylor; a Historicist Criticism"

Talk by Benjamin Neeser (PhD student - University of Neuchâtel) Title: "Through Worlds and Times Alike: A Counterpart-Theoretic Account of Persistence" This talk is sponsored and organized by the Wise Club at the University of Aberdeen

Talk by Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh) Title: Why It Matters What We Think Abstract: In this presentation, I tease out some implications of Leibniz's claims (i) that there is a structurally isomorphic relationship between the mind or soul and its organic body and (ii) that the mind or soul perceives the external world indirectly...

Talk by Adam Carter (Edinburgh) Title: "Knowledge-How and Anti-Intellectualism” Abstract: Reductive intellectualists (e.g., Stanley & Williamson 2001; Stanley 2011a; 2011b) hold that knowledge-how is a kind of knowledge-that. Anti-intellectualists (e.g., Ryle 1949; 1945) reject this reduction and identify knowledge-how with ability possession. In this talk, I want to challenge reductive intellectualism on two...

Christopher Thomas,"From Complex Bodies to a Theory of Art: Melancholy, Bodies, and Art in the Philosophy of Spinoza"

Davide Monaco,"Parallelism and Identity in Spinoza's Ethics. IIP7 and IIP7S"