Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki): “On the feasibility of conceptual engineering in logic and (meta)mathematics: A few case studies”
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜Week of Events
Monday, November 9, 2020
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November 9, 2020 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Barbara Vetter
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November 9, 2020 -Cover to Cover Reading Group (Kamm’s *Almost Over*)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Barbara Vetter
Title: Essence, Potentiality, and Modality Abstract: According to essentialism, metaphysical modality is founded in the essences聽of things, where the essence of a thing is roughly akin to its real definition.聽According to potentialism (also known as dispositionalism), metaphysical聽modality is founded in the聽potentialities of things, where a potentiality is聽roughly the generalized notion of a disposition. Essentialism and…
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
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November 10, 2020 -Language and Mind Seminar | Julia Zakkou (Bielefeld)
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November 10, 2020 -Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki): “On the feasibility of conceptual engineering in logic and (meta)mathematics: A few case studies”
Language and Mind Seminar | Julia Zakkou (Bielefeld)
Abstract: This paper investigates the norm of presupposition, as one pervasive type of indirect speech act. It argues against the view that sees presuppositions as an indirect counterpart of the direct speech act of assertion and proposes instead that they are much more similar to the direct speech act of assumption. More concretely, it suggests…
Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki): “On the feasibility of conceptual engineering in logic and (meta)mathematics: A few case studies”
Abstract. 鈥斅燩recisifications of certain informal concepts could be thought of as instances of conceptual engineering: the concept of a Turing machine (human effective computability), the notion of a Kripke structure (possibility), the Kolmogorov axioms (probability), Tarski’s definition of truth in formal languages, to name just a few. Should we聽regard聽the technical notions these formalisms define as…
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Thursday, November 12, 2020
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November 12, 2020 -Super Special Seminar tba
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November 12, 2020 -Epistemology Seminar. Talk: Clayton Littlejohn
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November 12, 2020 -CEPPA Talk – Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
CEPPA Talk – Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
Title: ‘The Problem of Polarization’ Abstract: 鈥淭he cure for democracy’s ills is more democracy.鈥� This popular adage is false. Contemporary democracy faces problems that have their source in otherwise laudable forms of political participation. In short, enactments of democratic citizenship heighten our exposure to polarization, which in turn erodes our capacities to perform well as…
Friday, November 13, 2020
Saturday, November 14, 2020
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Sunday, November 15, 2020
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