Language & Mind Seminar: Stefano Pugnaghi
Breckenridge & Magidor: ‘Arbitrary Reference’
Breckenridge & Magidor: ‘Arbitrary Reference’
Abstract: In this talk I examine, and rebut, Goldbergs (2020) arguments in favour of a conversational norm that would defeasibly entitle linguistic agents to presume that silence indicates assent (NSR).…
Abstract: In this paper, I provide an account of the epistemic significance of the phenomenon of being known and the relationship it has to reparations that are distinctively epistemic. Drawing…
Pain, Painfulness, and Evaluation In this talk, I survey the increasingly rich, contemporary debate about the nature of pain and its unpleasantness. Along the way, I highlight some of the…
Abstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept ofextractivist epistemologyas a way to think through the effect of colonialism on knowing practices. Extractivist…
Pluralist Meta-ethical Constructivism and Feminist Social Construction: Meta-ethical Constructivism holds that ethics is grounded upon shared values between agents in a society. In this sense a Constructivist thinks there are…
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