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:聽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 Ball鈥檚 book manuscript.聽Please notice that only next week, our meeting will be from 11 to 1 pm. The seminar will…
*Password: ACEW20* Abstract. 鈥� 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.…
Deborah Marber will give a talk on “The Counterfactual Imagination: what we learn from engaging with fiction”. If you want to join our Zoom session, please send me an e-mail…
Abstract. 鈥� Do conceptual revisions change the subject? Do revolutionary analyses of familiar kinds? A standard picture of meaning 鈥� that an expression鈥檚 truth conditions are essential to it 鈥�…
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