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The BPPA is now the BIPPA

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The Executive Committee of the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BPPA) takes pride in announcing a change in the name of the association. On Tuesday 17th May 2022, the committee approved that the BPPA shall henceforth be known as the British and Irish Postgraduate Philosophy Association, or BIPPA for short.    We would like this name change to be a first move towards one of the main goals the 2022 Executive Committee has set for their term: a full integration and a better representation of postgraduate students doing Philosophy in the Republic of Ireland. While support for the postgraduate community in theContinue readingThe BPPA is now the BIPPA

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Openings on the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Executive Committee – Extended Deadline

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We are happy to announce that the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BPPA) is seeking to recruit a new Executive Committee.   Applications are open to anyone who will be enrolled on a postgraduate degree in philosophy or related field in the UK or the Republic of Ireland as of January 2022. Applications from underrepresented groups in the discipline are particularly encouraged.  Please email an academic CV and short statement of purpose explaining why you will be a good fit for the role you are applying for to anne-marie.mccallion@manchester.ac.uk  Any questions should also be sent to the same email address.  Continue readingOpenings on the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Executive Committee – Extended Deadline

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CFP: Fifteenth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic

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22nd-23rd January 2022, St John’s College, Cambridge The Conference will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of January 2022 at St John’s College, Cambridge. Our keynote speakers for the conference are Professor Anna Mahtani (LSE) and Dr. Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Manchester) We invite papers from graduate students or those who have recently completed their PhD on any topic in the Philosophy of Mathematics or Logic, broadly construed. Papers will have respondents, and will be followed by open discussion. Respondents will be selected from members of the Cambridge University Faculty of Philosophy and other philosophy departments in the UK. Papers should be noContinue readingCFP: Fifteenth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic

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Epistemic Eternalism vs Metaphysical Eternalism – A comparison between Boethius and Anselm’s solution to the paradox between free will and divine omniscience, Keqi Chen (Cambridge)

This is a post by Keqi Chen (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.   The paradox between human free will and divine foreknowledge has attracted the attention of philosophers of religion for centuries. The kernel of the paradox lies in the contradiction between the uncertainty of the future contingent events derived from human beings’ free choices of will on the one hand, and the certainty of the object of knowledge on the other. For instance,Continue readingEpistemic Eternalism vs Metaphysical Eternalism – A comparison between Boethius and Anselm’s solution to the paradox between free will and divine omniscience, Keqi Chen (Cambridge)

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Disorder and Prediction, Pablo Fernández Velasco (ENS)

This is a post by Pablo Fernández Velasco (ENS), 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.   Let us consider the following idea: cultural practices increase predictability. Take queuing, for instance. You arrive at the supermarket. As is often the case nowadays, they are only letting people come in one by one, so a queue has formed outside. If instead of a queue there had been a crowd of people in disarray waiting to get in basedContinue readingDisorder and Prediction, Pablo Fernández Velasco (ENS)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Ability’s Two Dimensions of Robustness, Sophie Kikkert (LSE)

This is a post by Sophie Kikkert (LSE), 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.   When we attribute to someone the ability to use MS Excel, speak Turkish, or change a tire, we take it that they can successfully perform these acts ‘across counterfactual scenarios’. With this I mean that often, when we say someone has an ability, this indicates that it isn’t merely possible for them to perform some act as things actually stand, butContinue readingAbility’s Two Dimensions of Robustness, Sophie Kikkert (LSE)