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2022
January
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CEKAS Seminar: Dr Natalie Ashton (Stirling)
-Dr Natalie Ashton (Stirling) ‘Productive Online Environments: Why Twitter Is (Epistemically) Better Than Facebook’ Encountering viewpoints that we disagree with can be difficult, but it can also, in the right circumstances, be productive; this idea is neatly captured by Jose Medina's term epistemic friction. But what are 'the right circumstances'? Especially in...
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CEKAS Seminar: Prof Chris Fraser (Toronto)
-Prof Chris Fraser (Toronto) ‘Finding a Way Together: Interpersonal Ethics in the Zhuāngzǐ’ The various threads of discourse preserved in the Zhuāngzǐ (3rd century BC) present a radical challenge to prevailing ways of thinking about ethics, whether in the texts’ own day or our own. The dominant stance in the Zhuāngzǐ is...
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Biblical Studies Research Seminar
-The spring 2022 Biblical Studies Research Seminar series will meet on Wednesdays, 15:30–17:00. Please see the attached schedule for all details. This seminar brings together researchers in Old Testament / Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and New Testament. Our schedule includes invited papers and a series of discussions around readings that...
2021
December
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Philosophy Visiting Speaker Seminar: Samir Okasha
-Prof Samir Okasha (Bristol) ‘Scepticism, Evidential Holism and the Logic of Demonic Deception’ Abstract Sceptical arguments in epistemology typically employ sceptical hypotheses, which are rivals to our everyday beliefs so constructed that they fit exactly the evidence on which those beliefs are based. There are two ways of using a sceptical hypothesis to undermine...
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
November
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
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CEKAS Seminar: Tom Carson
-Prof Tom Carson (Loyola) ‘How Misplaced Trust and Distrust Create Misinformation and Enable Lying and Deception in Politics and Public Policy’ Abstract "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both" (James Madison) “Everyone is entitled to his...
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times