Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Sarah Sawyer (Sussex): “Kinds of concepts”
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September 29, 2020 -Language and Mind Seminar – “Quotative ‘Be Like’”
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September 29, 2020 -Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Sarah Sawyer (Sussex): “Kinds of concepts”
Language and Mind Seminar – “Quotative ‘Be Like’”
Title: Quotative 鈥楤e Like鈥� (joint work with Andreas Stokke (Uppsala)) Abstract:聽 There are a variety of familiar ways of talking about our mental states and speech acts, such as direct discourse (as in, ‘Ellen said, 鈥淚’m leaving now!鈥濃��), indirect discourse (as in, 鈥楨llen thought that she would leave鈥�). DD and ID continue to raise difficult…
Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Sarah Sawyer (Sussex): “Kinds of concepts”
Abstract. 鈥斅營n this paper I argue that聽concepts fall into distinct kinds according to such things as their direction of determination, their modal range, and the nature of their referents. Such properties determine a given concept’s eligibility for genuine revision.聽As a result, different kinds of concepts require different treatment in the context of conceptual engineering. Understanding…
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