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This talk will also be our 2023-24 Adolf Grünbaum Memorial Lecture. Title: Causal Abstraction and Computational Explanation Abstract: A familiar idea in cognitive science is that it can be useful to study the mind at different levels of analysis. This idea of levels is rarely made precise, however. Adapting tools from recent theoretical work on […]
Title: A Commitment Account of Norm Externalisation Abstract: It has been argued that moral norms fundamentally differ in character from conventional norms. One of the distinctive features of moral norms is thought to be their externalised character. To say that a norm is externalised is to say that it is experienced as imposed on us […]
Title: Peirce Disappears: C.S. Peirce and Early Logical Empiricism Abstract: Scholars of the history of philosophy of science read and hear a lot about Duhem, Mach, Poincaré, and the members of the Vienna Circle. C.S. Peirce, however, is not generally considered a canonical figure in the history of philosophy of science. But in the early […]