12 events found.
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar | 脡douard Machery (Pittsburgh): “A new challenge to explication”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom*Password: ACEW20* Abstract. 鈥� In this talk I present a new challenge to explication, as a method for importing lay concepts into science. To illustrate this new challenge, I focus on the concept of innateness.
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CEPPA Works-in-Progress Group
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Epistemology Seminar: Sandy Goldberg: 鈥淥n the Epistemic Significance of Practical Reasons in Inquire鈥�
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Medieval Logic Seminar: John Dumbleton, Summa Logicae
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar Daniel Nolan Title: Morals of the Story: Impossible Fiction
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract We can tell tales not just of what does not happen, but of what cannot happen. I think this phenomenon can tell us two kinds of philosophically interesting things. It tells us interesting things about fiction and how to understand it. It also tells us interesting things beyond fiction: about how representation works, about…
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Language and Mind Seminar: Talk by Deborah Marber: “The Counterfactual Imagination: what we learn from engaging with fiction”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomDeborah Marber will give a talk on “The Counterfactual Imagination: what we learn from engaging with fiction”. If you want to join our Zoom session, please send me an e-mail (si24@)
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Allison Koslow (MIT). “Going on in the same way”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomAbstract. 鈥� Do conceptual revisions change the subject? Do revolutionary analyses of familiar kinds? A standard picture of meaning 鈥� that an expression鈥檚 truth conditions are essential to it 鈥� suggests so. I present an alternative. The novel usages philosophers propose have analogues in ordinary discourse that figure in a family of puzzles about diachronic…
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