Title: Quotative Be Like (joint work with Andreas Stokke (Uppsala)) Abstract: There are a variety of familiar ways of talking about our mental states and speech acts, such as direct discourse (as in, ‘Ellen said, I’m leaving now!), indirect discourse (as in, Ellen thought that she would leave). DD and ID continue to raise difficult…
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Abstract. In this paper I argue thatconcepts fall into distinct kinds according to such things as their direction of determination, their modal range, and the nature of their referents. Such properties determine a given concept’s eligibility for genuine revision.As a result, different kinds of concepts require different treatment in the context of conceptual engineering. Understanding… |
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Abstract. Practices of concept-revision among scientists suggest that concepts can be improved. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union revised the concept PLANET so that it excluded Pluto, and insisting that the result was an improvement. But what could it mean for one concept or conceptual scheme to be better than another? Here we draw… |
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Abstract: In this presentation I explore the harm of positive assault portrayals, which refer to depictions of sexual assault in which the victim is shown to initially refuse some sexual contact but subsequently change their mind or enjoy the assault. I propose that, contrary to some popular feminist analyses, the significance of positive assault portrayals…
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Abstract. According to Mary Midgley (19192018), philosophy is like plumbing: “Each system supplies vital needs for those who live above it. Each is hard to repair when it does go wrong, because neither of them was ever consciously planned as a whole. In her view, philosophy responds to basic needs that are fundamental to… |
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Abstract. Historically, some feminists and Marxists aimed to introduce theoretically useful concepts to accurately describe, explain, and predict existing oppression and inequality. In fact, Haslanger (2000, 2006) had argued that we should analyse social kind concepts for discriminated groups (e.g., for race or gender) so as to lay down the conditions of oppression of the… |
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Workshop on Theories of Paradox in the Middle Ages
N.B. The Workshop will now take place wholly online. Giorgione, Three Philosophers Paradoxes seized the attention of logicians in the middle ages, and were used both as tests for the viability of theories of logic, language, epistemology, and possibly every philosophical issue, and also in the specific genre of insolubles as needing a theoretical solution,… |
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We will meet online, but NOT via Arche Zoom. Updates will follow. |
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*** SESSION RESTRICTED TO ARCH MEMBERS *** Abstract. This paper advertises the importance of distinguishing three different foundational projects concerning the epistemic, which we call normative epistemic inquiry, metaepistemic inquiry, and the conceptual ethics of epistemology. We argue that these projects can be distinguished by their contrasting constitutive success conditions. We argue further that because… |
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