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FAH/DPHIL: The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay
The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay is awarded for excellence in philosophy. Students enrolled in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies undergraduate courses are eligible to enter an essay for the annual award. Students are invited to submit an academic essay written as an assignment in one of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies’ undergraduate courses this academic year (AY2024/2025). Essays of any length are acceptable. The organisers reserve the right not to award the prize if essays are not of sufficiently high standard. Please submit essays by e-mail with the subject line ‘Submission for the Mario Echano Prize’ to Maggie Wong at MaggieWong@um.edu.mo. Attach your essay to the message as a Microsoft Word document (other […]
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FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Fake News and the Dark Side of Speech” by Prof. Carlo Penco, University of Murcia, Spain
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Fake News and the Dark Side of Speech” by Prof. Carlo Penco, University of Murcia, Spain
Microsoft Teams: https://go.um.edu.mo/w7j1ioud Abstract In the talk, I will discuss the topic of disinformation, starting with the different approaches taken by the United States and Europe to the notion of free speech. After discussing problems that connect free speech with disinformation and fake news, I will use some basic tools in the philosophy of language to give some clarification of the notion of fake news. First of all, I will use Austin’s notion of speech act, and in particular, I will describe fake news as a kind of speech act falling under the force of assertion. I then will treat some aspects of pragmatics dealing with the idea of common ground (Robert Stalnaker) and accommodation (David Lewis). Through these […]