The European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) is a distributed three-years PhD program jointly offered by four leading European universites in the field: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany, coordinator), the Technische Universität Wien (Austria) and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).
EPCL will start in the fall of 2011. The Call for Applications has now been published.
The application deadline is 15 May 2011.
Seminario di filosofia del linguaggio e della mente
Università degli Studi di Milano
Dipartimento di filosofia - Via Festa del Perdono 7 - Milano 20122
Martedì 25 gennaio 2011 – ore 17 – aula 517 (via Festa del Perdono)
Paolo Valore (Università di Milano)
Nulla è parte di tutto.
Alcune perplessità ontologiche sull’oggetto nullo mereologico
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Venerdì 10 dicembre, ore 15:30 Aula Seminari del Dipartimento di Filosofia (3° piano) Università degli Studi di Milano, via Festa del Perdono 7
Forgiveness can refer to a variety of things. The understanding of forgiveness adopted in my presentation is closely related to Joseph Butler’s (1692-1752) classical definition, based on the idea that forgiveness is connected to moderation of resentment. For the purposes of my argument it is enough to assume that when a victim forgives the offender, she typically makes a commitment to work toward a frame of mind in which resentment has gone. When a victim has made a commitment, she personally thinks that resentment is not an appropriate emotion anymore – whether or not she still feels it. A victim has not forgiven if she feels resentment and thinks that her feelings are appropriate in this respect.
It seems clear that in some circumstances it would be cruel not to forgive the offender, i.e. if the crime committed was not serious and happened a long time ago, if the offender has felt remorse because of it and explained why he was so stupid to have done it, and so on. But if this is so, then it seems to follow that in some circumstances demands for forgiveness may be perfectly acceptable and morally unproblematic. Surely we are free to demand not to be treated cruelly and wrongly. We can blame those who treat us so.
I aim to explain why demands for forgiveness sound typically incongruous and disturbing. I will introduce two explanations that have been defended, and criticize both of them. I will then present my own explanation and argue that it satisfies all the main conditions which the acceptable explanation should meet. The conditions I have in mind are the following. (1) The explanation should tell us why demands for forgiveness are morally and not merely practically incongruous. (2) The explanation should clarify why such demands are typically but not always morally incongruous. (3) The explanation should explain why demands presented by offenders are typically more disturbing than demands presented by third parties.
(New) 3 open PhD positions at ILLC
The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation has two four-year PhD positions available at the Faculty of Humanities (FGw) and one at the Faculty of Science (FNWI) starting September 2011.
Deadline for project proposal submissions is 15 March 2011 (for the FNWI position) or February 1, 2011 (for the FGw positions). Candidates who wish to be considered for all three positions should follow the FGw deadline. For more information, see the full joboffer announcement or the project proposal guidelines (PDF), or contact the ILLC's scientific director, Dr. Leen Torenvliet, at L.Torenvliet
