Language and Mind Seminar: L&M Discussion of Derek Ball’s “Definition and Dispute”
We will discuss material from Derek Balls book manuscript. The seminar will happen in Zoom. If you want to join this session, please e-mail me at si24@.
We will discuss material from Derek Balls book manuscript. The seminar will happen in Zoom. If you want to join this session, please e-mail me at si24@.
Abstract. In this talk I argue that our engagement in debates about art can be fruitfully understood along the same lines as debates in conceptual engineering. Proposals in conceptual…
Recent philosophy has paid considerable attention to the way our biases are liable to encroach upon our cognitive lives, diminishing our capacity to know and unjustly denigrating the knowledge of…
Abstract:E-sentences (entailment-sentences) are metalinguistic sentences like , , and . This type of sentences is found at the heart of the epistemology of logic as their truth-values tell us what…
We will discuss chapter 4 and 5 of Derek Balls book manuscript.Please notice that only next week, our meeting will be from 11 to 1 pm. The seminar will…
*Password: ACEW20* Abstract. In this talk I present a new challenge to explication, as a method for importing lay concepts into science. To illustrate this new challenge, I focus…
Abstract We can tell tales not just of what does not happen, but of what cannot happen. I think this phenomenon can tell us two kinds of philosophically interesting things.…
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