During the next three weeks, we will discuss material from Derek Ball鈥檚 book manuscript. Abstract: These are two introductory chapters from a book manuscript I鈥檓 working on, entitled Definition and Dispute.聽 The first chapter introduces some main themes of the book, and the second develops the leading idea: that the best way of making sense…
Abstract. 鈥斅燭his paper looks at a potential counter-example to Hume鈥檚 Law based on the principle that Ought implies Can and especially evaluates (and rejects) a conventionalist view according to which聽there are oughts that imply can, and oughts that don鈥檛, and this makes the question of whether or not Ought implies Can聽essentially conventional and up to…
Abstract:聽The insight behind TSIM theory is that we should take at face value the view of belief, knowledge, (cognitive) information, but also of other notions less explored in formal logic, like imagination and mental simulation, as (propositional) representational mental states bearing intentionality, that is, being about states of affairs, issues, situations, or circumstances which make…
We will discuss material from Derek Ball鈥檚 book manuscript. The seminar will happen in Zoom. If you want to join this session, please e-mail me at si24@.
Abstract. 鈥� 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 engineering are not to be evaluated on the basis of their ability to track empirical essences but on the basis of a concept鈥檚 epistemic, pragmatic,…
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 others (e.g., Fricker 2007). The extent of the bias, and the range of domains to which it applies, has struck some as so great as…
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 follows from what.聽Justification holism聽says that beliefs regarding E-sentences can only be justified in the context of a logical theory, e.g. classical, intuitionistic, paraconsistent etc. Thus,…
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