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Indicative conditionals: the logic of assertion John Cantwell September 25, 2006 Abstract I argue that indicative conditionals are best viewed as having partial truth condi- tions: “If A, B” is true if A and B are both true, false if A is true and B is false, and lacks truth value if A is false. The truth conditions are shown to explain a variety of important phenomena regarding indicative conditi
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Abstracts The 5th meeting of the Nordic Network in Metaphysics 12-13 November 2021, Lund In alphabetic order: • Åsa Burman (Stockholm University): A Taxonomy of Social Facts How many types of social facts are there? The purpose of this talk is to develop a taxonomy of social facts to answer that question. I start by giving a more comprehensive account of social power, the power view, than has hith
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Descartes on Virtue Descartes on Virtue∗ By Lilli Alanen and Frans Svensson (Uppsala University) 1. Introduction In letters to Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia and Queen Christina of Sweden, as well as in parts of the Passions of the Soul, Descartes provide at least the outlines of an ethical theory.1 Most energy is devoted to the characterization of an ideal of moral virtue, which according to Desca
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Lund mini-symposium on the concept of phenomenality: What is what-it-is-likeness like? 16 January 2013 Department of Philosophy, Lund Titles and abstracts Jan Almäng, University of Gothenburg Phenomenality as a Ground for Perceptual Intentionality According to a common theme in modern philosophy of mind, the representational character of an experience is either identical to or the ground for the p
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1 Reasoning and Representing 6 May 15, 2025 Vocabularies of Reason 2025 Pufendorf Lectures Lund University Lecture I Reasoning and Representing Bob Brandom I. Semantics and Pragmatics When I say that cats are mammals, we can distinguish between what I have said— something sayable, namely that cats are mammals—and my saying of it, which is something I have done, a speech act I have performed. Of co
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Introduction 1 PLEASURE, PREFERENCE, AND HAPPINESS: VARIATIONS ON THEMES FROM MILL Johan Brännmark Department of Philosophy, Lund University johan.brannmark@fil.lu.se ABSTRACT: Mill’s qualitative hedonism has been subject to much debate. It was formulated to strike a balance between classical hedonism and perfectionist conceptions of happiness and many have thought that either it is an abandonment
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Microsoft Word - Abstracts Social Complexes.docx ABSTRACTS Social Complexes: Parts and Wholes. Perspectives from Metaphysics, Ethics and Philosophy of Action. Department of Philosophy, Lund University, 11-‐12 October 2013 http://www.fil.lu.se/institutionen/anknuten-‐verksamhet/konferenser/social-‐complexes-‐parts-‐and-‐wholes-‐perspectives-‐ from-‐metaphysics-
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Authenticity and identity 1 AUTHENTICITY, IDENTITY, AND FIDELITY TO SELF Sigurður Kristinsson Faculty of Law and Social Science, University of Akureyri sigkr@unak.is ABSTRACT: An ideal of authenticity is deeply imbedded in western culture. Following Harry Frankfurt, authenticity might be characterized as fidelity to the person’s essential nature. This suggestion fails, no matter whether personal i
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Microsoft Word - Abstracts.docx The 2016 Rutgers-Lund Conference May 19th–20th, Lund University Abstracts Exercise-Based Rights – The Very Idea David Alm The material to be presented in this talk is an excerpt from a larger work in progress about moral rights. In that work I defend two main theses. The first is the value view, according to which, very roughly, a right is (or helps constitute) a va
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Primary and Secondary Reasons PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REASONS Ingmar Persson Department of Philosophy, Gothenburg University Ingmar.Persson@phil.gu.se ABSTRACT:This paper argues that Wlodek Rabinowicz and Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen are wrong in thinking that what they call the ‘Wrong Kind of Reasons’ problem presents a serious problem for the idea that the fact that there are reasons to have a pro-attitu
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Rabinowich and Lindström on relation belief revision Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek Lindström and Rabinowicz on relational belief revision Erik J. Olsson Lund University and University of Constance Abstract: It is usually taken for granted that
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DELIBERATION DOES CROWD OUT PREDICTION DELIBERATION DOES CROWD OUT PREDICTION Isaac Levi John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 levi@columbia.edu Wlodek Rabinowicz (2002) has challenged the thesis that deliberation as to what one is to do and prediction as to what one will do cannot be jointly undertaken coherently. He maintains that even if it were tru
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Roger Fjellstrom Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek Roger Fjellstrom SIGNAL, DEFINITION, FUNCTION, CONSTITUTION OR WHAT? A question about the relation between value and reason-giving in the buck-passing account of value ABSTRACT The so called ‘buck
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In his correspondence with Princess Elizabeth and Queen Christina, as well as in parts of the Passions of the Soul, Descartes provide the beginnings of a theory of ethics. Descartes argues that the supreme good, or the end that one ought to pursue in all of one's actions, is virtue. The latter is understood by Descartes as a matter of using ones absolutely free will as well as one can. In the pape
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Future People, the All Affected Principle, and the Limits of the Aggregation Model of Democracy Future People, the All Affected Principle, and the Limits of the Aggregation Model of Democracy 1 Torbjörn Tännsjö Stockholm University Abstract: Contrary from what seems to be the received wisdom in political theory, there is no way that we can affect future people, at least not people who live several
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8 EXTERNALISM AND THE CONTENT OF MORAL MOTIVATION Caj Strandberg Department of Philosophy, Lund University and Gothenburg University Caj.Strandberg@fil.lu.se ABSTRACT: Michael Smith raises in his fetishist argument an important question: what is the content of the motivational states that account for moral motivation? Although the argument has been widely discussed, this question has not received
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Graduate Workshop on Fiction & Philosophy II Lund University, Department of Philosophy Thursday October 4th 2018 Room LUX: B339 9.00-9.15 Welcome and introduction 9.15-10.15 Keynote address: Nora Hämäläinen (Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice) - Sara Lidman's secular reading of original sin' In her suite of novels called "Jernbanan", "The Railway" (1977-1985) the Sw
Microsoft Word - SJSI WR-Festschrift2.doc Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek 1 IS HYPOTHETICAL CONSENT A SUBSTITUTE FOR ACTUAL CONSENT? Linus Broström & Mats Johansson Department of Medical Ethics, Lund University Department of Philosophy, Lund Uni
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The Derivation of the Principle of Alternate Possibilities from "Oug Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek AUTONOMY AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF VALUES David Copp University of Florida dcopp@phil.ufl.edu ABSTRACT: An agent is autonomous only if she
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Titles and abstracts Staan Angere Homotopy, well-foundedness, and ω-structuralism Abstract: Abstract: Structuralism, in a well-known form, says that entities are logically, psychologically, epistemologically, linguistically, or ontologically secondary to the relations they stand in. But what of the relations themselves? Are they secondary to the second-order relations they stand in? Does the same
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