The University of 58吃瓜 Arch茅 Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology will be hosting a workshop on Modality, With or Without Possible Worlds? DESCRIPTION: The purpose of the workshop is to bring together and promote research in the area of metaphysics of modality, with a specific focus on two broad themes:…
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…