BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Philosophy events - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:/philevents X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Philosophy events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240702T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240702T140000 DTSTAMP:20260615T220933 CREATED:20240602T063851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240627T093926Z UID:10002096-1719921600-1719928800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-68/ CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240702T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240702T140000 DTSTAMP:20260615T220933 CREATED:20240628T094840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240702T100941Z UID:10002108-1719921600-1719928800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Language and Mind seminar: Derek Ball (University of 58Թ) DESCRIPTION:Title: “Immanent Interpretation”\nBryan Pickel and Derek Ball\n\nAbstract: Famous arguments purport to show that all\, or a substantial fragment\, of language is indeterminate in meaning.  Quine and Davidson motivated indeterminacy arguments by attending to the possibility of different translations of a foreign language and to the possibility of differing uses of homophonic expressions among speakers of the same language; more contemporary versions focus on the interpretation of context-sensitive expressions such as quantifier domain restrictions (Heck\, Buchanan).  We show that these arguments fail because they ignore evidence that is available to interpreters – evidence that arises from the interpreters themselves as language users.  But our aim is not merely to rebut indeterminacy arguments.  We construct a research strategy for interpreters to meet the concerns of the proponents of indeterminacy arguments.  The strategy is available to interpreters in a wide range of cases\, but (time permitting) we will also discuss cases (such as the interpretation of AI\, or of non-human animals) in which it might fail. URL:/philevents/event/language-and-mind-seminar-derek-ball-university-of-st-andrews/ LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams CATEGORIES:Language and Mind Seminar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR