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2017
March
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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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One-day Symposium: Between East and West: Ukraine, Identity and Memory
-Participants:Professor Christoph Mick (University of Wawick)Remembrance in Ukraine and Lviv’s ‘divided memories’ Dr Olenka Pevny (University of Cambridge) Revizualizing the medieval and early-modern past in contemporary Ukraine Robert Frost (University of Aberdeen)Mykhailo Hrushevsky construction of the Ukrainian past
February
2016
November
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Post-graduate Colloquium
-Emilio Di Somma "The Buffered Self in Taylor; a Historicist Criticism"
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Public Roundtable "Still Home Abroad? Polish Migration to Scotland after Brexit"
-How does the EU referendum result affect the Polish community in Scotland, and what are people’s responses? Integration of Poles has been a success story, and Scotland’s economy has benefited from migration. People born in Poland have overtaken all other foreign nationalities in the UK for the first time. Academics...
April
March
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Philosophy Colloquium
-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...
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Philosophy Colloquium
-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...
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History of Art Research Seminar
-"Aesthetics, authenticity and a sense of place: conserving carved stone artworks in situ": Dr Shannon Fraser, National Trust for Scotland
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Philosophy Postgraduate Talk
-Christopher Thomas,"From Complex Bodies to a Theory of Art: Melancholy, Bodies, and Art in the Philosophy of Spinoza"