Centre for Time: Recent submissions
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Mental Causation and the Determination Relation
Published 2006-12-04Stephen Yablo's influential article "Mental Causation" made an interesting new move in the philosophical debate about the exclusion problem about mental causation. He observed that (i) determinables are not excluded from ...Open AccessConference paper -
Remembering together: is there a social ontology of memory?
Published 2006-12-04In analysing certain integrated collectivities as group subjects or institutional persons, Philip Pettit stresses that such collectivities engage in a social form of self-regulation by collectivizing reason in the service ...Open AccessPresentation -
Rationality, reasoning and regulation: the case of group agents
Published 2006-12-04Note: The audio file features Philip Pettit's paper, entitiled "Rationality, reasoning and regulation: the case of group agents," followed by commentary from Katie Steele, then discussion. Abstract for Pettit's paper: ...Open AccessPresentation -
Self-organizing collections and collective agents
Published 2006-12-04Advances in understanding self-organization over the past few decades have led to the temptation to extend it to a model of human cognition. The extension is supported by new insights in situated cognition and success in ...Open AccessPresentation -
Truth
Published 2006-05-24In this lecture, renowned philosopher Huw Price explores the concept of 'truth'. The Culture Wars have given way to the Truth Wars, but this is just a new name for an ancient conflict. From Plato to Nagel, Protagoras to ...Open AccessPresentation