“Will we ever run out of work to do?” by Alexander Dietz
Abstract: Will we ever reach a point where there is no more useful work for us to do? Where we can all just relax, and lead lives of leisure, until the end of time? In this talk, I will discuss …...
View ArticleHonours Thesis (HT) Presentations by Mr Goh Zhao Qi
Date: 12 September 2019 Time: 2pm -2.45pm Venue: AS3-05-23 Presentation by Goh Zhao Qi Title Gamer’s Dilemma: What can moral feelings inform us about it? Abstract Luck (2009) introduced the gamer’s...
View Article“Has Cognitive Psychology Solved the Generality Problem for Reliabilism?” by...
Abstract: We address the generality problem for process reliabilism, i.e. the view that a subject knows the proposition p just in case p is true, the subject believes that p and, characteristically,...
View Article“The Emergence of Will and Morality in Late Antiquity” by Siegfried Van Duffel
Abstract: Freewill is a perennial topic in Western philosophy. Many historians, however, date the origin of the concept in late antiquity (often either the Stoics or Augustine). If they are right, it...
View Article“Truth Pluralism: a lesson from Many-Valued Logic” by Andrea Strollo
Abstract: According to truth pluralism there is not a single property of truth but many: propositions from different areas of discourse are true in different ways. This position has been challenged to...
View ArticleTalks by Anik Waldow and Deborah Brown
Date: 17 October 2019 Time: 2pm to 5pm Venue: Philosophy Meeting Room (AS3-05-23) 2pm – 3.30pm Condillac on Being Human: Control and Reflection Reconsidered by Anik Waldow Abstract: Why do humans have...
View Article“How much should we matter to an Ethical AI?” by Cansu Canca
Abstract: When we try to navigate potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI), we invariably ask: Is AI for the good? Often, implicit in the question is: Is AI good for humans and humanity? This...
View Article“A moderate-grain theory of states of affairs” by Daniel Graham Marshall
Abstract: A state of affairs is either a way things are or a way things aren’t. The two most popular theories of states of affairs are the coarse-grain theory, according to which states of affairs are...
View Article“Varieties of Mood Experience” by Tatyana “Tanya” Kostochka
Abstract: Research in psychology suggests that moods vary across cultures in several different ways. This means that any adequate theory of moods has to explain how this is possible. Moreover, the...
View Article“In defence of the Causal Principle” by Dr Andrew Loke
Abstract: This paper defends the Causal Principle ‘everything that begins to exist has a cause’. Contrary to the claims of some scientists and philosophers, fundamental physics does not exclude...
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