Category: Talks SOPhiA

Paola Fontana Università della Svizzera italiana Some have proposed (Weber, 2010; Priest, 2006) to develop naïve set theory in a paraconsistent logic. The aim of this work is to assess whether the paraconsistent strategies are suitable for this purpose and to analyse the motivations behind them.(1)        First, I will reconstruct Priest’s (1994) argument for the…

Shabnam Singla Central European University, Vienna In this paper, I aim to answer the question “Why care about positionality of philosophers in the discipline of professional philosophy?”. I make a normative claim that we, the current professional philosophers, ought to care about the positionality of (potential) philosophers. In order to support my claim, I argue…

Hrayr Manukyan Utrecht University When is it justified and legitimate to resort to civil disobedience? This question confronts citizens who have strong moral objections to their governments’ (in)action. Existing normative theories of civil disobedience in political philosophy are useful but were written for civil disobedience within functioning liberal-democratic states. Being disobedient in such a context…

Larissa Kolias University of Calgary Should practical stakes affect what we know? According to two prevalent theories of knowledge — contextualism, specifically that of DeRose (1992, 1995, 2009), and pragmatic encroachment (Stanley, 2005; Fantl and McGrath, 2009; Weatherson, 2012) — practical stakes do affect what we can know. Contextualism is the thesis that what is…

Gabrielle Scotto Università degli studi di Torino Throughout life we are always faced with choices. These choices can be of great impact and influence, or they can involve dramatic and extreme situations. But choices must also be made through mundane and ordinary situations, where they are often made almost automatically and instantaneously. Much attention has…

Neha Singh University of Lucknow Hilary Putnam was one of the most influential figures among the philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In his John Dewey lectures, published in 1999 as “The Threefold Cord Mind, Body, And World”, Putnam started advocating a form of direct/commonsense realism which he calls “natural realism”, abandoning…

Nathan Louis Strebel University of Zurich Most people can relate to the rather interesting phenomena of craving emotional experiences through consumption of art that they would otherwise try to avoid in real life. This paradoxical motivation has been termed the “paradox of painful art” in philosophical literature since Aaron Smuts’ paper of the same name…

Bo Flemming Loxtermann Universität Siegen There is a deficit of metaontological reflection within the analytic metaphysics of time. In my talk, I present what metaontological reflection for the metaphysics of time means, why its lack is problematic and, finally, which new theoretical options arise by such metaontological approach.I begin by distinguishing between restricted quantification, i.e.,…

Timothy Kwiatek Cornell University Anger sometimes detects injustice, either on a personal level (Shoemaker 2015) or political level (Cherry 2021). But it’s not just a tool for detecting injustice, anger can also be used as a tool to confront that injustice. One important way that anger can confront injustice is by frighten one’s interlocutors into…

Maciej Jarzębski University of Warsaw In my talk I will present the analysis of the epistemological problem of the standard theory of knowledge  (i.e. knowledge as justified true belief) applied to science. I will try to answer whether Gettier cases can be constructed for scientific knowledge, therefore, whether scientific knowledge is susceptible to the Gettier…