Joint work w/ Lorena Ram铆rez-Lude帽a (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) ABSTRACT. 鈥斅燱e will discuss two different phenomena of language usage that we have characterized in past work as flexibility and tolerance. We will examine their relation, or lack thereof, to conceptual engineering and we will apply the distinctions discussed to the specific case of the legal…
Abstract: When a person has evidence about their capacity to assess the evidence for or against a proposition, for example, when they have evidence that their assessment is subject to bias, they have higher-order evidence. A popular view in epistemology is that higher-order evidence can make a difference to whether it is rational for a…
Title: Truthmaker semantics for containment and nonsense Abstract: Conceptivism is the doctrine according to which a proposition cannot entail another proposition if the latter contains a concept which is not already contained in the former: entailment does not introduce any additional conceptual content. This doctrine motivates so-called containment logics, namely logics where a formula B…
*Session jointly hosted with ARCH脡’s “Mind & Language” Research Group ABSTRACT. 鈥� We should all be supporters of conceptual聽engineering. I take that to be relatively uncontroversial. But why 鈥� exactly? That’s where the controversy starts. I give the answer I like, drawing on a view in metaphysics which explains why we need conceptual analyses (of…
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