Category: Talks SOPhiA

Jan Seibert Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen The Cosmological Argument classically claims that our world’s existence is a contingent matter and therefore needs a sufficient explanation, which is then argued to be found externally in the existence of God – a self-sufficient being that created the world intentionally. To do so, versions of the Principle of Sufficient Reason…

Patrizio Proietti According to Eric Hochstein (see Hochstein, 2016), eliminativism in psychology and neuroscience is based on the assumption that (a) each science has a single right standard to form concepts and (b) all concepts that do not conform to the standard should be eliminated. With the aim of challenging eliminativism and its validity, Hochstein…

Vivyen B. Sagsen York University Imagination is often described as a skill. Although this description is accepted widely, it has only recently been explicitly discussed by philosophers. As a skill, imagination is understood as an activity that we can improve or that we can be worse at than others. This understanding helped philosophers distinguish imagination…

Pablo Valencia-Equy University of Santiago de Compostela The paper develops a non-Boolean exact truthmaker semantics for First Degree Entailment (FDE). It begins with the truthmaking principle: every true proposition is made true by some state, and, in a bilateral framework, every false proposition is made false by some state. Truthmakers and falsitymakers may be exact…

Zofia Sierant Jagiellonian University Contemporary sexual ethics holds that informed consent is a necessary condition for the permissibility of sexual activity. At least three conditions of informed consent are typically identified: its voluntariness, possession of adequate knowledge of the relevant facts, and competence to understand the nature of the act to which a person is…

Marcin Nowicki Jagiellonian University The so-called non-identity problem posits a longstanding challenge to all authors engaged in the debate on intergenerational justice. Anyone interested in the duties owed to future generations has to explain how they address questions regarding this issue. And yet, there is surprisingly little dialogue between non-identity debates in intergenerational justice and…

Nina Tod §1. When a logician is asked whether an argument is strong, she typically checks its validity. In the Bayesian debate, however, classical logic is often considered inadequate as a measure of argument strength. There are invalid arguments that are strong and valid ones that are not, including informal fallacies such as circular arguments:…

Angel Odette Martínez & Reyna Janette Barba Universidad de Guadalajara CUCHS & Benemérita y Centenaria Escuela Normal de Jalisco One of the positions in the discussion of the philosophy of fiction declares that fictions exist as real entities in possible worlds by using a logic system named supervaluationism. Supervaluationism is a logic of vagueness which…

Cansu Irem Meric University of Manchester Like many concepts in philosophy, there isn’t a consensus about what cognition is supposed to refer to. Some theorists argue that an organism is cognitive only if it instantiates the right kinds of mechanisms (i.e. neural architectures or their equivalents). This view known as the mental constraint thesis (MCT).…

Mykolas Lekevičius Vilnius University Claims that logic is not normative (Russell 2020; Hattiangadi 2023) stem from the declinein believing that logic has a special role in reasoning (Harman 1986). Albeit Russell (2020) does claim that the source of normativity can be external, but the laws themselves are descriptive as those found in physics or mathematics.…