9 events found.
Conceptual Engineering Seminar
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A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom
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Super Special Seminar Walter Dean (Warwick) The liar and the sorites: towards a uniform arithmetical treatment
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract: The unification of the paradoxes of truth and vagueness has been a topic of recurrent philosophical interest (e.g. McGee 1989/1990, Tappenden 1993, Field 2003/2008, Priest 1994/2010). I will present a sequence of observations which illustrate how the liar and sorites paradoxes are formally related, culminating in the observation that both give rise to similar…
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Talk by Clotilde Torregrossa on “Experimental Aesthetics and Conceptual Engineering”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract Experimental Philosophy (X-Phi) is now a fully-fledged methodological project with applications in almost all areas of analytic philosophy, including, as of recently, aesthetics. Another methodological project which has been attracting attention in the last few years is conceptual engineering (CE). Its areas of implementation are now diverse, but as was the case initially with…
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Talk by Manuel Gustavo Isaac on “Broad-Spectrum Conceptual Engineering”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract Conceptual engineering is aptly characterized as the method to assess and improve our representational apparatuses. But little has been said so far on how to best construe these representational apparatuses for the very purposes of conceptual engineering 鈥斅爄n other words, on what conceptual engineering should be all about. This paper addresses this foundational issue…
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Patrick Greenough (58吃瓜): “The stipulation dilemma”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom -
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