Seminar

Group Thinking seminars in the academic year 2020-21:

Talk, Francesco Guala on Rational Coordination without Belief
Talk, Katherine Ritchie on Social Structures and the Ontology of Social Groups.
On Katherine Ritchie’s “Social Structures and the Ontology of Social Groups“
Talk, Ludovica Adamo on Necessarily Incompatible Prima Facie Constraints on Desires
On Marya Schechtman, “Staying Alive (excerpts from chs 5 & 6)”
Talk, Robbie Williams on Mindreading and Mental Metasemantics (work in progress)
Talk, Haixin Dang on Philosophical Methodology and Social Epistemology (joint work in progress with Liam Kofi Bright)
Talk, Andrew Peet on Risk (work in progress)
Talk, Joshua Habgood-Coote on Collective Action, Work, and Partial Plans (work in progress)
Talk: Simon Graf on Rethinking Group Justification: The Independent Agent Account (work in progress)
On Michael Bratman, “Time, Rationality, and Self Governance”
On Marya Schechtman, “Staying Alive (Ch. 2)”
On Evan Fales, “The Ontology of Social Roles”
On Olga Pacheco & Jose Carmo, “A Role Based Model for the Normative Specification of Organized Collective Agency and Agents Interaction”
On David Velleman, “Identification and Identity”
On Katherine Ritchie, “Minimal Cooperation and Group Roles”
On Michael Bratman, “Shared Intention and Organized Institutions”
On David Barnett, “Is Memory Merely Testimony from One’s Former Self”
On Brian Hedden, “Time-Slice Rationality”
Talk: Robbie Williams on Affects, Desire, and Interpretation (work in progress)
On David Shoemaker, “Blameworthy but Unblameable: A Paradox of Corporate Responsibility”
Speaker (over MS Teams): Stephanie Collins presenting “Abilities and Intentions: Lessons from Non-Agential Groups”
On Robert Pasnau, “Bias and Interpersonal Skepticism”
On Abraham Roth, “The Self Referentiality of Intentions”
On Alessandro Salice, “There are no Primative We Intentions”
On Kirk Ludwig, “From Plural to Institutional Agency (Ch. 2)”
Talk: Daniel Elstein on the Knobe Effect.
On Raimo Tuomella & Kaarlo MIller, “We Intentions”
On John Searle, “Collective Intentions and Action”
On Kevin Zollman, “The Theory of Games as a Tool for the Social Epistemologist”
On Christian List, “What is it Like to be a Collective Agent?”
On David Velleman, “How to Share an Intention”
On Eric Schwitzgebel, “If Materialism is True, Then the United States is Probably Conscious”
Speaker (over MS Teams): Olle Blomberg presenting “Blameworthiness Gaps and Joint Moral Responsibility”
On Mandy Simons & Kevin Zollman, “Natural Conventions and Indirect Speech Acts”
On Olle Blomberg, “Shared Intention and the Doxastic Single End Condition”
On Edna Ullmann-Margalit, “The Emergence of Norms”
On Kirk Ludwig, “Proxy Agency in Collective Action”
On Sebastian Kutz, “Acting Together”
On Michael Bratman, “A Planning Theory of Intention and Agency”
On Margaret Gilbert, “Walking Together”.

Group Thinking seminars in the academic year 2019-20:

Talk: Robbie Williams on epistemic charity and metaphysical charity. (work in progress)
On Olle Blomberg & Björn Petersson, “Team Reasoning and Collective Moral Obligation”. (recorded talk for Social Ontology 2020)
Speaker (over MS Teams): Herman Capellen presenting on metasemantics for AI.
Speaker (over MS Teams): Josh Habgood-Coote presenting “Group Knowledge How”.
Speaker (over MS Teams): David Chalmers presenting work in progress on AI.
On Juan Comesaña, “Evidentialist Reliabilism”.
On Max Baker-Hytch, “Defeatism Defeated”.
Speaker (over MS Teams): Mikkel Gerken presenting “The Significance of Scientific Testimony” (Ch. 7 of his book-in-progress).
Talk: Robbie Williams, “Against Epistemic Charity”. (work in progress)
Speaker (over MS Teams): Mona Simion presenting on “Group Belief and Responsibility Transmission”
Talk: Haixin Dang, “Epistemic Responsibility and Collaboration in Science”. (work in progress)
Talk: Andy Peet, “Group Normic Reliabilism”. (work in progress)
On Brian Epstein, “What Are Social Groups? Their Metaphysics and How To Classify Them”.
On Paul Faulkner, “Collective Testimony and Collective Knowledge”.
On Olivier Roy & Anne Schwenkenbecher, “Shared Intentions, Loose Groups and Pooled Knowledge”.
On Christian List & Philip Pettit, “The Epistemic Desideratum” Ch. 4 of Group Agency.
On Conor Mayo-Wilson, Kevin J.S. Zollman & David Danks, “The Independence Thesis: When Individual and Social Epistemology Diverge”.
On Jeffrey Dunn, “Reliable Group Belief”.
On Fredrick Schmitt, “The Justification of Group Belief”.
Speaker (over MS Teams): Jennifer Lackey, discussion on “What is Justified Group Belief”; presentation on “Group Epistemic Duties”; discussion on “Group Lies”.
On Jennifer Lackey, “Group Belief” (manuscript chapter).
On Jennifer Lackey, “Group Lies”.
Speaker: Natalie Gold, talk on “Guard Against Temptation: Team Reasoning and the Role of Intentions in Exercising Willpower”; discussion on Natalie Gold & Robert Sugden “Collective Intentions and Team Agency”; discussion on “Putting Willpower into Decision Theory: The Person As a Team Over Time and Intrapersonal Team Reasoning”.
On Natalie Gold, “Team Reasoning, Framing, and Self-Control: An Aristotelian Account”.
On Jennifer Lackey, “What is Justified Group Belief?”
Speaker: Kenny Easwaran, talk on “Decision Theory without Representation Theorems”; discussion on “The Concept of Rationality for a City”; pre-read seminar on Kenny Easwaran & Reuben Stern, “Diachronic and Interpersonal Coherence” (draft).
On Kenny Easwaran, “The Concept of Rationality for a City”.
On Natalie Gold & Robert Sugden, “Collective Intentions and Team Agency”.
On Scott Shapiro, “Massively Shared Agency”.
GROUNDS internal work-in-progress seminar I: theoretical roles for collective intentionality. Heather Logue, “Indispensability of Group Attitudes in Social Psychology”; Daniel Elstein: “The Indispensability of Group Attitudes to Group Responsibility”; Thomas Bouwer: “Collective Intentionality and Social Reality”.
Speaker: Harvey Lederman, talk on the negative arguments from “Uncommon Knowledge”; talk on “”A Theory of Common Ground”; discussion on the positive view in “Uncommon Knowledge” & “Two Paradoxes”.
On Harvey Lederman, “Two Paradoxes of Common Knowledge: Coordinated Attack and Electronic Mail”.
On Harvey Lederman, “Uncommon Knowledge”.
On Olle Blomberg, “Common Knowledge and Reductionism About Shared Agency”.

Group Thinking seminars in the academic year 2018-19 (starts March 2019):

Talk: Robbie Williams, “Minimal Common Knowledge” (work in progress)
On Gunnar Björnsson, “Collective Responsibility and Collective Obligations Without Collective Moral Agents”.
Talk: Robbie Williams, “Public Information and Common Belief”. (work in progress)
Talk: Thomas Brouwer, “Multiple Populations”. (work in progress)
On John Campbell, “Joint Attention” from The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality.
On Harvey Lederman, “Common Knowledge” from The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality.
On Michael A. Hogg, “Social Categorization, Depersonalization, and Group Behavior” from The Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Group Processes.
On Stephen Reicher, “The Psychology of Crowd Dynamics” from The Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Group Processes.
On Tindale et al. “Shared Cognition in Small Groups ” from The Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Group Processes.
On Scott Shapiro, Ch. 6 “The Making of a Legal System” from Legality.
Talk: Robbie Williams, “Persistence and Representation”. (work in progress)
On Kit Fine, “The Identity of Social Groups”.
On Margaret Gilbert, chapter from A theory of political obligation.
On Gallotti, “Collective Attitudes and the Anthropocentric View”.
Talk: Thomas Brouwer, “Interpretationism and Hybrid Collective Intentionality”. (work in progress)
On David Atenasio, “Co-responsibility for individualists”
On Margaret Gilbert, “Who’s to blame?”
On Christian List, “Three Kinds of Collective Intentionality”.
Speaker: Deb Tollefsen. a pre-read session on “Group Testimony”. A pre-read session on “From extended Mind to Collective Mind”. A talk on “Institutional Knowledge”.

Representation seminars in academic year 2016-17:

Speaker: Adam Pautz. Two pre-read sessions on perception and intentionality, and a talk.
Speaker: Herman Cappelen; pre-read session on a draft of his book “Fixing Language”
Speaker: Ian Rumfitt; pre-read sessions on his work on truth and the Burali-Forti paradox
Speaker: Sarah Sawyer; a pre-read session on a book chapter “Concepts and Moral Properties” and a talk on concepts, conceptions and self-knowledge
Speaker: Brian Epstein; two talks – “What are social groups?” and “Two ways of making the social world”
On Matthew Mandelkern, Ginger Schultheis and David Boyla’s “Agentive Modals”
On Toppinem on expressivism and the normativity of attitudes
On Scharp, “Inconsistent concepts” from his book Replacing Truth
On Lepore, “The heresy of paraphrase”
Leckie on rewriting semantic externalism
Hewitt on inferentialism and quantifiers
On Woodfield on reference and deference
On Daniel Cohnitz and Jussi Haukioja’s “Meta-Externalism vs Meta-Internalism in The Study of Reference”
On Boghossian, “On what the externalist can know a priori”
On Margaret Gilbert & Daniel Pilchman’s “Belief, Acceptance and What Happens in Groups”
On Christian List & Philip Pettit’s 2011 book Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents (chapter 1)
On Michael E. Bratman’s “Shared Cooperative Activity”
On MacFarlane, “In What Sense (If Any) Is Logic Normative for Thought?”
Speaker: Florian Steinberger, two pre-read sessions and one talk on the normativity of logic.
On Plunkett and Sundell, “Disagreement and the Semantics of Normative and Evaluative Terms”.
On Haslanger, “Gender and Race: (What) are they? (What) do we want them to be?”
On Eklund, “Intuitions, Conceptual Engineering, and Conceptual Fixed Points”.

Representation seminars in academic year 2015-16:

Speaker: Dave Chalmers two pre-read sessions : “The Representational Character of Experience”, “Inferentialism and Analyticity” and “Reference Magnets and the Grounds of Intentionality”
On Chalmers ‘Constucting the World’ (several seminars)
On Recanati’s book “Mental Files”
On Perry’s “A problem about Continued Belief”
On Schneider’s “LOT, CTM, and the Elephant in the Room”
On Jackson and Pettit’s “Some Content is Narrow”
On Fodor’s “Why There Still Has To Be A Language Of Thought”
On Stich’s “Fat Content meets narrow syntax”
Ed Elliot on Representation Theorems (several seminars)
“On Words” by Hawthorne and LePore
On Kaplan’s “Words”
Speaker: Guy Longworth two pre-read sessions on “Comprehending speech” and “Understanding what was said” and a talk “An entertaining account of understanding”
On Heck’s “Reason and Language”
On Hornsby’s “Semantic Knowledge and Practical Knowledge”
On Longworth’s “Linguistic Understanding and Knowledge”
Speaker: Tim Button two pre-read sessions on “Brains in vats and model theory” and “The weight of truth: Lessons for minimalists from Russell’s Gray’s Elegy argument” and a talk: “The Empiricist Problematic: Treating Carnap’s Aufbau as a case-study”
Robbie Williams on “Normative Reference Magnets” (work in progress)
On Button “On the limits of Realism”
Williams on “What we talk about when we talk about talking about.” (work in progress)
Williams on “Source intentionality”
On Hedden on “Options and the subjective ought“
On Hattiangadi “Is meaning normative?”
On Boghossian “The rule-following considerations”

Representation seminars in academic year 2014-15:

Speaker: Janice Dowell, two lectures on methodology and data in semantics.
On Dowell “A flexible, contextualist account of epistemic modals”
Speaker: Tyler Burge “Entitlement: basis for empirical warrant”; “Do apes and very young children attribute mental states?”
On Burge Origins of Objectivity (chs.9/10).
Speaker: Hartry Field “Egocentric content”; “Caie’s paradox of credence”, “What is logical validity?”
On Field “Attributions of meaning and content”.
On Caie “Belief and indeterminacy”
On Field “Mental representation”
On Block “Mental pictures and cognitive science”.
On Haslanger “Ideology, Generics and Common Ground”
On Carr (work in progress).
Speaker: Liz Camp “Logical concepts and associative characterizations”; “On why metaphors make good insults”; “Cartography is not propositional”.
Speaker: John Hawthorne. Title TBA.
On Camp: “Thinking with maps”
Speaker: Richard Heck “Solving Frege’s puzzle”, “Sense as a mode of representation”, “Intuition and the substitution argument”.
On Heck “The sense of communication”
On Lynch “Three questions for truth pluralism”.
Speaker: Lisa Bortolotti on “The epistemic benefits of clinical memory distortions” and “The epistemic innocence of motivated delusions”.
On Kriegel: introduction to phenomenal intentionality.
On Stainton on Chomsky.
On Heck “Reason and Language”

Representation seminars in academic year 2013-14:

August 2014: Reading group (four sessions) on Steven Yablo’s “Aboutness”.
On Price “From quasirealism to global expressivism — and back again?”
Speaker: Mahrad Almotahari, “‘Good’ without Good”.
On Yalcin “Semantics and metasemantics in the context of generative grammar”
On Rayo “A plea for semantic localism”
Speaker: Zoe Drayson, “Redundant representations and intentional explanation”, “Action-oriented perception”, “Representation and reflexive thought”
On McGlynn on Williamson on Knowledge-maximization (McGlynn attending via Skype).
On Ludwig & Lepore on Davidson on Charity.
On Williamson “Knowledge-Maximization”
On Millikan “In defense of proper function”
On Millikan “Biosemantics”
Speaker: Wolfgang Schwarz, “Imaginary Foundations”, “Subjunctive Conditional Probability”, and “Decision Theory in Ethics”
On Rupert “Causal theories of mental content”
Speaker: Richard Holton “Intention as a model for belief”.
Williams: “Radical Intepretation Revisited III: eligibility” (background reading: Weatherson “The role of naturalness in Lewis’s theory of meaning”).
Williams: “Radical Interpretation Revisited II: charity” (background reading: Maher Betting on Theories, selection)
Williams: “Radical Intepretation Revisited I: rationalization” (pre-read: Maher Betting on Theories, selection)
Speaker: Gurpreet Rattan.
Speaker: Damien Rochford “The calibration model of learning”.
On King and Speaks on Soames
On Soames “Propositions as cognitive event types”
On Matthews “The measure of mind”
On Tang “Intentionality and partial belief”
On Stalnaker Inquiry ch 1.
On Ross and Schroeder “Belief, credence and pragmatic encroachment”
On Hajek “A puzzle about degree of belief”
On Christianson “Two models of belief”
On Lewis “Language and Languages”
On Lewis “Radical Interpretation”
On Dretske Explaining Behaviour ch.3
On Dretske Explaining Behaviour ch.5

Representation seminars from January 2013:

Speaker: Imogen Dickie, on reference.
15 Mar 2013. “The problem of deduction”. Discussion led by Ulrike Heuer.
8 Mar 2013. “Interpretation, Representation and deductive reasoning” (Stenning et al).
1 Mar 2013. “Mental Models and Deductive reasoning” (Johnson-Laird). Discussion led by Nick Wiltshire.
22nd Feb 2013. “Logical approaches to Human Deductive reasoning” (Rips). Discussion led by Robert Williams.
15th Feb 2013. “Extensional vs. Intuitive reasoning” (Kahneman/Tversky). Discussion led by Paolo Santorio.
8th Feb 2013. “When rationality fails” (Elster). Discussion led by Heather Logue.
1st Feb 2013. Visiting Speaker: Imogen Dickie (Toronto). “Reference and Justification”.
21 Jan 2013. “Belief and the will” (van Fraassen). Discussion led by Andrew McGonigal.
18 Jan 2013. Selections from “Change in view” (Harman). Discussion led by Robert Williams.

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