Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Sarah Sawyer (Sussex): “Kinds of concepts”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜Week of Events
Monday, September 28, 2020
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September 28, 2020 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Matteo Nizzardo
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September 28, 2020 -Cover to Cover Reading Group (Kamm’s *Almost Over*)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Matteo Nizzardo
Title: On Numbers as Kinds Abstract: I discuss the neo-aristotelian ontology presented in Lowe (2006), drawing particular attention at Lowe鈥檚 notions of objects and pluralities, and his conception of natural numbers as universals. I argue that Lowe鈥檚 treatment of numbers and pluralities is useful to those who believe that non-individual entities exist and can be…
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
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September 29, 2020 -Language and Mind Seminar – “Quotative ‘Be Like’”
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September 29, 2020 -Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Sarah Sawyer (Sussex): “Kinds of concepts”
Language and Mind Seminar – “Quotative ‘Be Like’”
Title: Quotative 鈥楤e Like鈥� (joint work with Andreas Stokke (Uppsala)) Abstract:聽 There are a variety of familiar ways of talking about our mental states and speech acts, such as direct discourse (as in, ‘Ellen said, 鈥淚’m leaving now!鈥濃��), indirect discourse (as in, 鈥楨llen thought that she would leave鈥�). DD and ID continue to raise difficult…
Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Sarah Sawyer (Sussex): “Kinds of concepts”
Abstract. 鈥斅營n this paper I argue that聽concepts fall into distinct kinds according to such things as their direction of determination, their modal range, and the nature of their referents. Such properties determine a given concept’s eligibility for genuine revision.聽As a result, different kinds of concepts require different treatment in the context of conceptual engineering. Understanding…
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Thursday, October 1, 2020
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October 1, 2020 -Super Special Seminar tba
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October 1, 2020 -Epistemology Seminar: Lara Jost
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October 1, 2020 -CEPPA Talk – Ol煤f岷固乵i O. T谩铆w貌 (Georgetown University)
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October 1, 2020 -Ol煤f茅mi O. T谩铆w貌 (Georgetown University)
CEPPA Talk – Ol煤f岷固乵i O. T谩铆w貌 (Georgetown University)
Title: ‘Being-in-the-Room: Epistemic Deference and Elite Capture’ Abstract: Standpoint epistemology refers to a set of contentions: that knowledge is socially situated, that marginalized people have some positional advantages in gaining some forms of knowledge, and that research programs ought to reflect these facts. These seem to me to be entirely unobjectionable, and indeed to follow…
Ol煤f茅mi O. T谩铆w貌 (Georgetown University)
Ol煤f岷固乵i O. T谩铆w貌 (Georgetown University) Thursday, 1 Oct 4-5:30pm on Teams Title: 鈥楤eing-in-the-Room: Epistemic Deference and Elite Capture鈥� Abstract: Standpoint epistemology refers to a set of contentions: that knowledge is socially situated, that marginalized people have some positional advantages in gaining some forms of knowledge, and that research programs ought to reflect these facts. These…
Friday, October 2, 2020
Saturday, October 3, 2020
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Sunday, October 4, 2020
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