Uncategorised – Arche

New Research Stream: Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory

Derek Ball — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:30:02 +0000

We are pleased to announce that starting this semester, Arché will host a new research stream: Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory. The stream will focus on philosophical issues of social significance, including research from a feminist perspective. It meets 4-6pm on Wednesdays. For more information, or to join the mailing list, please contact the convenor, Emilia Wilson.

Workshop on Theories of Paradox in the Middle Ages: Recordings

Lynn Hynd — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:40:50 +0000

of nine of the talks given in October at the Workshop on Theories of Paradox in the Middle Ages are now available on the Arché YouTube Channel. Paradoxes seized the attention of logicians in the middle ages, and were used both as tests for the viability of theories of logic, language, epistemology, and possibly every philosophical issue, and also in the specific genre of insolubles as needing a theoretical solution, usually involving issues about signification, truth, knowledge and modality. Numerous theories were developed, not only in the Latin West, but also in the Islamic world and in the Byzantine tradition. Some of these theories are well known, others barely investigated, if at all. This workshop was an opportunity to discuss and contrast a range of these theories and consider their advantages and drawbacks, and their relation to more recent theories of paradox and antinomy. It was also be an occasion to hear and discuss what has been achieved locally in the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Theories of Paradox in Fourteenth-Century Logic: Edition and Translation of Key Texts‘.

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Lynn Hynd — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:23:47 +0000

Jessica Brown, Arché Professor of Philosophy at the University of ��ϳԹ��, has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship worth £118,764 to investigate the moral responsibility of groups such as companies and governments.

Her starting point will be that society standardly treats such entities as morally responsible, blaming and praising them for their actions, even though they don’t seem to be moral agents in the way that individual people are.

She will ask whether we should change our concept of agency to accommodate groups, or alternatively attempt to provide an explanation of moral responsibility without agency.

This award is for a 24-month period starting September 2021.

Publication translation and introduction: Andrea Oliani

Lynn Hynd — Thu, 21 May 2020 10:55:42 +0000

Recently published is the first Italian edition of “On the Plurality of Worlds” by David Lewis with translation and introduction edited by Andrea Oliani.

Grant Success

Lynn Hynd — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 10:18:53 +0000

Many congratulations to Jessica Brown who has been awarded an Arts/Humanities research workshops award by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The money will fund workshops on ‘Blame and Responsibility’, to be held in ��ϳԹ��, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Publication: Lewis Ross

Lynn Hynd — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:58:16 +0000

One of Lewis’s papers was recently published online: Is understanding reducible?

Congratulations Dr Yavuz

Lynn Hynd — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:06:49 +0000

We are pleased to announce that Alper Yavuz recently passed his viva. Alper successfully passed his disputation on his doctorate thesis ‘The Phrasal Implicature Theory of Metaphors and Slurs’.

Mind Association Senior Research Fellowship

Lynn Hynd — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:56:43 +0000

Mind Association Senior Research Fellowship for project, Blame: Epistemic and Moral (Brown). The project focuses on the way in which we can be blamed for failing to follow epistemic standards or norms governing belief or action.

Theories of Paradox in Fourteenth-Century Logic: Edition and Translation of Key Texts

Lynn Hynd — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:26:25 +0000

Leverhulme Project Grant for a project on ‘Theories of Paradox in Fourteenth-Century Logic: Edition and Translation of Key Texts’ (Read). The aim is to produce critical editions from the medieval manuscripts of the texts on Insolubles by Paul of Venice, Walter Segrave, John Dumbleton and Peter of Ailly, with English translations of the first three and commentary.

Publication: Hasen Khudairi

mga10 — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:27:42 +0000

Hasen’s paper, ‘Modal Ω-Logic: Automata, Neo-Logicism, and Set-theoretic Realism’, is forthcoming in the ‘Proceedings of the 2016 Meeting of the International Assocation for Computing and Philosophy’