April 2021 - British Postgraduate Philosophy Association

April 24, 2021April 30, 2021

The Varieties of Auditory Perception: The Case of Listening to Music, Giulia Lorenzi (Warwick)

This is a post by Giulia Lorenzi (Warwick), a speaker from our Spring 2021 Seminar Series. If you would like to attend a seminar, please sign up using this link. You can also download the full schedule here. We tend to think that vision is the most important sense modality in our everyday life. Through vision, we are able to discover objects and their features, as shapes and colours, as well as to grasp spatial information that enables us to avoid obstacles. The rapidity of sight in furnishing us information about the world and the richness of details thatContinue readingThe Varieties of Auditory Perception: The Case of Listening to Music, Giulia Lorenzi (Warwick)

April 21, 2021

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The Conventional Source of De-Re Necessities, Sebastian Obrist (USi)

This is a post by Sebastian Obrist (USi), a speaker from our Spring 2021 Seminar Series. If you would like to attend a seminar, please sign up using this link. You can also download the full schedule here. “We must attempt to determine what grounds what; and it will be largely on this basis that we will be in a position to determine the viability of a realist or anti-realist stand on any given issue.” (Fine 2012, p. 42)1 The source of modality Possibility and its dual notion necessity – in short modality – have throughout the history ofContinue readingThe Conventional Source of De-Re Necessities, Sebastian Obrist (USi)

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021

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Infantilization, Dehumanization & Cognitive Disability, Rhona J. Flynn (UCC)

The full transcript of this video is available here. This is a post by Rhona J. Flynn (UCC), a speaker from our Spring 2021 Seminar Series. If you would like to attend a seminar, please sign up using this link. You can also download the full schedule here. You can also watch Rhona and other speakers on our YouTube channel. This post gives an overview of the argument I’ll be making at the BPPA seminar on Friday March 26th. In it, I first set out what I mean by dehumanization, and then introduce infantilization as a further, as-yet unexaminedContinue readingInfantilization, Dehumanization & Cognitive Disability, Rhona J. Flynn (UCC)

April 1, 2021April 16, 2021

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Sharpening the Tool of Cognitive Diversity, Charlotte Zemmel (Cambridge)

This is a post by Charlotte Zemmel (Cambridge), a speaker from our Spring 2021 Seminar Series. If you would like to attend a seminar, please sign up using this link. You can also download the full schedule here. You can watch the recording here. Featured image by Daniel Öberg on Unsplash. We often justify observational claims by appealing to different kinds of evidence collected from a wide range of sources. This is captured in the concept of ‘robustness’; an observation is robust if many different experimental instruments corroborate the same observation in a range of locations.1 The idea at theContinue readingSharpening the Tool of Cognitive Diversity, Charlotte Zemmel (Cambridge)