Week of Events
Monday, November 30, 2020
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020
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December 1, 2020 -Language and Mind Seminar | Savvas Ioannou
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December 1, 2020 -Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth): “How should we think about linguistic function?”
Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth): “How should we think about linguistic function?”
Abstract. 鈥� Talk of function often plays a central role in work on conceptual engineering. An appeal to functions can provide much needed standards for evaluating and constructing concepts, according to how well they fulfill their functions, and whether those functions are desirable. However, there has also been a great deal of skepticism about the…
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
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December 2, 2020 -Metaphysics of Mind Workshop
Metaphysics of Mind Workshop
There are various recent theories of what is the relationship between the mental and the physical (such as grounding theories and panpsychism). This workshop is an opportunity to explore new theories and arguments concerning the metaphysics of the mind. This could be about mental properties in general or a specific kind of mental properties (e.g.,…
Thursday, December 3, 2020
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December 3, 2020 -Super Special Seminar tba
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December 3, 2020 -Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA!): Sarah Moss (UMich) “How to Be a Clever Contextualist”
Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA!): Sarah Moss (UMich) “How to Be a Clever Contextualist”
Abstract: This talk defends a contextualist theory of 鈥榢nowledge鈥� ascriptions. I argue that in some sentences, the implicit argument of 鈥榢nows鈥� is bound by a quantifier. The natural readings of these sentences can be generated by contextualist theories, but not by competing interest-relative theories of knowledge. In addition, I argue that the contextualist can explain…
Friday, December 4, 2020
Saturday, December 5, 2020
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Sunday, December 6, 2020
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