Titile: Can Someone Be a Semantic Externalist Experimental Philosopher? Abstract: Among experimental philosophy of language, semantic internalism is not merely the dominant metasemantic view 鈥� it is universal. Experimental philosophers of language take the target of their inquiry to be wholly mind-dependent and revealed by participant responses to survey questions. At the same time, some…
Speaker: Amiya Hashkes (58吃瓜 & Stirling)
Memory and the feeling of pastness Recent accounts of episodic memory have revived some ideas familiar from the 鈥榚mpiricist theory of memory鈥�, which go back at least as far as Hume. New versions of the empiricist theory cite two separate bodies of recent research in psychology in support of thinking of episodic memory along empiricist…
Speaker: Viviane Fairbank (58吃瓜 & Stirling) Should Science Journalists Know About Science? Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, many journalists in the 2000s reported on one researcher鈥檚 unfounded claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. They treated the issue as an open question that required equal consideration of 鈥渂oth sides鈥�: those…
Speaker: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis) Should have Known聽and Epistemically Appropriate Belief Sometimes people don鈥檛 know things they should have known. For instance, cardiologists should know about recent major developments that bear on their practice; if they don鈥檛 know, they should have. Can what a person should have known matter to what they鈥檙e…
The All Arch茅 Research Day is a whole-of-Arch茅 get-together. It鈥檚 an opportunity to foster interaction between research streams, and to celebrate achievements from the year 2023-2024. Session 1: 10am-11am (Chair: Jessica Brown) Talk 1 Katharina Bernhard: Epistemic Projection and Inductive Risk Coffee Break: 11am-11:30am Session 2: 11:30am-1pm (Chair: Francesco Berto) Lightning talks: 11:30am-12noon (Jessica Brown,…
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