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'Viking' Humour: Mini Lecture by Dr Hannah Burrows
-Do we share a sense of humour with Vikings? Join Dr Hannah Burrows for mini lecture on Friday 26 March at 15:00 GMT to discover what might have made the Vikings laugh, and what was considered a serious matter in medieval Scandinavia. She will explore what puns, jokes, insults, and...
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Philosophy Visiting Speaker Series
-Karim Thebault (Bristol) ‘Universal Reasoning’ Abstract: The general form of inference whereby we justify a novel mode of inductive reasoning by appeal to coherence with one or more distinct modes of inductive reasoning might reasonably be described as inductive triangulation. Consider, for example, the following inference: the properties of observed spatially distant electrons resemble...
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Art History Department Spring 2021 Research Seminar Series
-Mary Magdalene in the Museum (Lieke Wijnia, Museum Catharijneconvent, The Netherlands)
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Centre for Knowledge and Society Seminar
-Heather Widdows (Birmingham) ‘My Body, My Self?' Abstract: That our bodies have become our very selves in a visual and virtual culture is one of the main arguments of Perfect Me. This is so widely believed that we often don’t recognise either that it is true (until it is pointed...
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Art History Department Spring 2021 Research Seminar Series
-Street Photography Revisited: Garry Winogrand and the 'Look of Non Art': Simon Constantine (University of Aberdeen)
February
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Centre for Knowledge and Society Seminar
-Åsa Wikforss, (Stockholm) 'Democracy in the Post Truth Era' Abstract: We are said to live in an era of Post Truth, defined as a time when objective facts are less important in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. We also live in a time where democracy...
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Philosophy Visiting Speaker Series
-Wednesday Feb 10th, 3-4.30pm. Mahrad Almotahari (Edinburgh) and Aidan Gray (Illinois) ‘Coordination, De Se Thought, and Russellian Exceptionalism’ Abstract: Russellians, Relationists, and Fregeans disagree about the nature of propositional-attitude content and the role of coordination and de se thought in the explanation of rational behavior. We articulate a framework about the form such...