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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 Open Day 2025
FAH Open Day 2025
The University of Macau (UM) will host the Open Day on 12 January 2025 (Sunday) and everyone is welcome to join and learn more about UM’s latest developments. As part of this event, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) will be offering 12 game booths and two exhibitions with the theme “Twist into a New World of Humanities!”. In addition, FAH will be conducting a Programme Briefing for undergraduate programmes and information booth. You are cordially invited to come and immerse yourself in the excitement of humanities in a multicultural horizon, among the encouraging teaching and learning environment of FAH, and get a chance to win fabulous prizes! Event Details Date: 12 January 2025 (Sun) Theme: Twist into […]
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【Macao Humanities Forum】 Pedagogical Grammar: Its Status and Formation in the International Education of Chinese
【Macao Humanities Forum】 Pedagogical Grammar: Its Status and Formation in the International Education of Chinese
We are delighted to invite you to the 3rd Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2024/2025), scheduled for 15 January 2025. The forum provides a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event. In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Professor Lening Liu as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on "Pedagogical Grammar: Its Status and Formation in the International Education of Chinese." Professor Liu is a Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University and co-director of The Certificate Program of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. He holds a BA in Chinese […]
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “How Belief Functions” by Dr. Ema Sullivan-Bissett, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “How Belief Functions” by Dr. Ema Sullivan-Bissett, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Link: https://go.um.edu.mo/eds02x2h Abstract Our beliefs shape our understanding of the world and are key to how successful we are interacting with it. Fortunately, most of our beliefs get things (at least roughly) right, perhaps because they are constrained by evidence and not under our voluntary control. But sometimes we go wrong. We are overly optimistic, we engage in self-deception, we fail to properly update beliefs we hold dear in response to evidence, and, in perhaps the most paradigmatic case of belief gone wrong, we become deluded. How can we explain what belief is and how it behaves when faced with such a range of cases? In this talk, I argue that if we want our account of belief to […]
