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Achille C. Varzi Named Honorary Professor at Shandong University

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Original Announcement Columbia University, Department of Philosophy August 17, 2026 Read the original announcement → In August 2026, Shandong University conferred the title of Honorary Professor on Achille C. Varzi, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Professor Varzi’s research focuses on logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, particularly mereology and mereotopology. In

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Four New Methods for Analyzing Counts: VFL Models, 2-PLFs, GAITD Regression and DRR-VGLMs

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Thomas Yee Associate Professor Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science University of Auckland, New Zealand Date: September 15, 2026 (Tuesday) Time: 15:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A319 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract We give a whirlwind tour of four recently developed methods applicable to count responses, using negative binomial (NB) regression for illustration. Variance-Factorized

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Identity and Similarity

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Patrick Greenough Senior Researcher Department of Philosophy University of St Andrews, UK Date: June 18, 2026 (Thursday) Time: 19:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A115 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract On the Orthodox View: (1) Identity is an equivalence relation: reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. (2) Similarity is not a transitive relation, and so not an

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Graham Priest Lecture Series

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Special Lecture Series Graham Priest Lecture Series Speaker: Graham Priest Series Dates: June 3–29, 2026 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus About the Speaker Graham Priest is an internationally renowned philosopher. He received his doctorate from the London School of Economics and is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University

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On Perceiving Absence

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Achille C. Varzi Lecture Series · Lecture 3 of 3 Achille C. Varzi John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Columbia University, USA Date: May 29, 2026 Time: 15:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A1721 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract Can we really perceive absences, i.e., things that aren’t there? Sartre tells us that when he arrived

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Analytic Metaphysics: Past, Present, and Prospects

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Achille C. Varzi Lecture Series · Lecture 2 of 3 Achille C. Varzi John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Columbia University, USA Date: May 28, 2026 Time: 15:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A115 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract Within contemporary analytic philosophy, metaphysics has evolved into one of the most vibrant and prolific fields of

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Parthood Relations, Integral Wholes, and Mereotopology

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Achille C. Varzi Lecture Series · Lecture 1 of 3 Achille C. Varzi John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Columbia University, USA Date: May 27, 2026 Time: 19:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A115 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus   Abstract Mereology is often described as a theory of the part-whole relation (or relations), but of course

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Let’s Talk About Canonical Extensions

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Apostolos Tzimoulis Research Scientist Department of Computer Science University of Luxembourg Date: May 14, 2026 (Thursday) Time: 14:00 Venue: Zhixin Building, Room A1618 Location: Shandong University, Central Campus Abstract The canonical extension is a fundamental construction in the algebraic theory of modal logics. It plays a key role in the proof of completeness via canonicity

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