• Language and Mind seminar: Stefano Pugnaghi (University of 58勛圖)

    Online Meeting via Teams

    Title: Alethic Pluralism and the Meaning of “True” Abstract: Alethic pluralism is the view that there are many ways for truth-bearers to be true since different properties realise truth in different domains. Thus, especially in itsstrongversion, pluralism amounts to the claim that the notion of truth we ordinarily employ is actually directly linked with a…

  • Language and Mind seminar: Haoxu Wang (University of 58勛圖)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Title:Can a Russellian Monist Be a Genuine Physicalist? Abstract: Currently, Russellian Monism is a cutting-edge theory in the discussion of phenomenal consciousness. It has the potential to retain the advantages of both narrow physicalism and narrow dualism by locating phenomenal consciousness in a fundamentally unified universe, having it play essential causal roles in the physical…

  • Language and Mind seminar: Roy Sorensen (University of 58勛圖 and UT Austin)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Title: Kant risk a lie! Abstract: Immanuel Kant says, lying is the chief sin against others, alongside robbery, murder and stuproviolatio. Kant never risks robbery, murder, or rape. But Kant does risk telling intentionally deceptive falsehoods. Instead of being a man a few words, Kant is a man of three million words. Equally revealing is…

  • Language and Mind seminar: Matteo Nizzardo (University of 58勛圖)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    TITLE:Probabilistic Arbitrary Reference ABSTRACT:Arbitrary Reference is the idea that we can refer to individual entities with some degree of arbitrariness. Although there are different accounts of Arbitrary Reference, nearly all of them can be challenged on the basis that they entail the existence of free-floating semantic facts, namely: semantic facts which are not grounded in…

  • Language and Mind seminar: Suzuka Komatsu (University of 58勛圖)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Title: Depression and the Open Future Abstract: We intuitively think that the past is fixed or closed whereas the future is open. In a phenomenological description of depression, however, depressed subjects often report that the future is closed. Our na簿ve view of the open future thus seems to be impaired. What makes the depressed subjects…

  • Language and Mind seminar: Louise Richardson (University of York)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Title: Regret Abstract: There are many ways to feel bad about things. This paper is about which of those ways of feeling bad count as regret, and why. I will suggest that a very great deal of our bad feelings are regrets, in opposition to the narrower view of some philosophers and psychologists who restrict…