Category: Talks SOPhiA

Friederike Lierheimer J.B. Metzler Session Sie arbeiten gerade an Ihrer Promotion und stehen kurz vor dem Abschluss Ihrer Arbeit? Sie möchten Ihre Forschung in einem renommierten Umfeld prominent und gut sichtbar als Buch veröffentlichen und fragen sich, wie das funktioniert? Lernen Sie unser Forschungsprogramm für den geisteswissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs kennen. J.B. Metzler (ein Imprint von Springer…

Melina Bardt Radboud University  Since neurodiversity is on everybody’s lips these days, more and more people have come to conceive of themselves as ‘being neurodivergent’. The neurodiversity paradigm contests presumed mental norms. It starts from the assumption that the minds and brains of people work in different ways. However, ‘being neurodivergent’ is not an attribute…

Wojciech Graboń University of Warsaw For almost half a century, scientific modelling has been one of the main topics of interest to philosophers of science. The construction of models, often understood as idealised structures that resemble parts of reality (Giere 2010), serves to represent the world and to engage in surrogate reasoning (Weisberg 2016) that…

B.V.E. Hyde University of Leeds | Durham University This study advances a new methodological ideal for science. It starts with a characterization of the ideal of scientific objectivity as cluster concept (ballungen) with many meanings under it (1), all sharing the commonality of safeguarding against epistemic threats (2) where the meaning of the term therefore…

Armin Mašala University of Zurich Racial profiling, i.e., law enforcement based on the statistical likelihood of members of a race committing certain crimes, has been a contested issue in philosophy. At first glance, it seems that if the relevant statistics hold, it is a rational and efficient law enforcement practice. However, a plethora of objections…

Shiman Luo Central European University One or two grains do not make a heap, but 10200 grains certainly do make a heap. If we assume the process of collecting grains to be not gappy, then the collection must become a heap at some stage of the process. However, it seems plausible to think that if…

Apollonios Livadiotis University of Gothenburg There is a tension between two intuitions regarding epistemic normativity. On the one hand, individuals may be deemed blameworthy for forming beliefs based on non-epistemic goals. For example, we might blame someone, as all things considered culpable, for choosing to believe in God merely based on her psychological comfort. On…

Markus Tschögl University of Gothenburg In his “”The Province of Human Agency”” (2018), Anton Ford re-negotiates the scope of human agency. He argues against the common view that actions are essentially bodily movements (corporealism) to build a case for his own view (materialism), which holds that actions can extend to “whatever it is—whatever material—one changes…

Lena Golker University of Vienna One of Frege’s fundamental principles, as stated in The Foundations of Arithmetic, is that the concept-object distinction must always be considered. The standard reading is that this distinction is an ontological one. My aim is to question the standard reading. To do this, I will first explain what functions are…

Michael Stöger University of Vienna The principle of compositionality (COMP) is famously attributed to Gottlob Frege. (COMP) tells us that the meaning of a sentence is determined by the meanings of its constituent expressions and their arrangement. Since Frege specified the meaning of expressions with the distinction between sense and reference, Frege should also be…