Language and Mind Seminar | Antti Kauppinen (Helsinki)
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Abstract. — Let ‘epistemic concepts’ refer to those concepts which express the standards employed in epistemic assessment.  Such concepts offer an interesting test case for conceptual engineering. On the one hand, they seem like they are tailor-made to be constructed de novo, answering to whichever of the varying interests we might have in epistemic evaluation. On…
Title: ‘Conflict, Discord, and Strife’ Abstract: Given that interpersonal relationships are relationships between persons, we might hold out hope that a better philosophical understanding of the nature of persons can help us to better understand the structure and dynamics of interpersonal relationships. In this talk I will argue that this thought is correct. In particular,…
Title: “Good News for the Subregion Theory of Parthood” Abstract: The Subregion Theory of Parthood is probably the most intuitive theory of parthood. It says that whatever is exactly located at a subregion of your exact location is part of you, and nothing else is. Mutatis mutandisfor all material objects. I defend this view from…
Abstract. — This talk addresses methodological and political challenges of conceptual engineering in cross-cultural perspective. Based on four case studies of interdisciplinary (empirical and philosophical) research projects in Latin America and West Africa, the talk demonstrates the heterogeneity of epistemological and ontological perspectives of stakeholders and the often hidden politics of their inclusion/exclusion in the…
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