• Unity Pre-Reading: Natural Concepts

    Castclecliffe G5W

    Douven, Igor & Gärdenfors, Peter (2019). What are natural concepts? A design perspective. Mind and Language (3):313-334. https://philpapers.org/archive/DOUWAN.pdf

  • Unity Pre-Reading: Prototypes

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    Belastegui, Javier (2022). ‘A Qualitative Approach to Conceptual Spaces: Prototypes as Qualitative Atoms.’ Erkenntnis (Online):1-36. https://philpapers.org/rec/BELAQA-2

  • Unity Pre-Reading: Natural Concepts & Convexity

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    Hernández-Conde, José V. (2017). A case against convexity in conceptual spaces. Synthese 194 (10):4011-4037. https://philpapers.org/rec/HERACA-2

  • Unity Pre-Reading: Quasi-Analysis I

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    Leitgeb, Hannes (2007). A New Analysis of Quasianalysis. Journal of Philosophical Logic 36 (2):181-226. https://philpapers.org/rec/LEIANA-3

  • Unity Pre-Reading: Quasi-Analysis II

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    Mormann, Thomas (2009). New Work for Carnap’s Quasi-Analysis. Journal of Philosophical Logic 38 (3):249-282. https://philpapers.org/rec/MORNWF-2 ALT: Decock, Lieven & Douven, Igor (2011). Similarity After Goodman. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 2 (1):61-75. https://philpapers.org/rec/DECSAG

  • Unity Seminar: WIP Cotnoir & Schirripa ‘Vagueness & Mereology’

    Edgecliffe G03

    Abstract: Even if philosophers can’t agree on whether to locate the source of vagueness in the world, in our language, or in our knowledge, we can agree that at least some ordinary mereological claims are vague. For some candidate vague object, like Edinburgh or Mt Everest,  we may regard some of its parts as being…