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2017
April
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Thomas Reid's 307th Birthday Party!
26 April, 7th Floor of the Sir Duncan Rice Library - Thomas Reid's 307th Birthday Party! Schedule for the day: 10:30 - 11:30 "Reid on Identity: Nazis, Memory, and Personhood" by Tom Flint and James McHardy, The Wise Club (Aberdeen) 11:30 - 11:45 Tea and Coffee break 11:45 - 12:45...
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Gifford Lecture Series with Professor David Novak
-Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature.
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Philosophy Colloquium
-Dr Neiladri SINHABABU (National University Singapore) Title: Epistemic Akrasia for the Rational Pragmatist Abstract: It's possible to rationally believe that p while also judging that it's irrational to believe that p. Such cases of rational epistemic akrasia are elusive among those who accept evidentialist norms for belief. But it's possible if...
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Philosophy Colloquium
-Marcin Milkowski (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences) Title: Multiple Realization Is Dead
March
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Philosophy Colloquium
-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...
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Philosophy Colloquium
-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...
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Postgraduate Research Talk
-Mr Davide Monaco (Aberdeen) Title: "A new account of the objective-formal distinction in Spinoza’s parallelism theory"