Week of Events
Monday, July 1, 2024
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
-
July 2, 2024 -Language and Mind seminar
-
July 2, 2024 -Language and Mind seminar: Derek Ball (University of 58吃瓜)
-
July 2, 2024 -CANCELLED FPST Seminar – Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
Language and Mind seminar: Derek Ball (University of 58吃瓜)
Title: 鈥淚mmanent Interpretation鈥� Bryan Pickel and Derek Ball Abstract: Famous arguments purport to show that all, or a substantial fragment, of language is indeterminate in meaning.聽 Quine and Davidson motivated indeterminacy arguments by attending to the possibility of different translations of a foreign language and to the possibility of differing uses of homophonic expressions among…
CANCELLED FPST Seminar – Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
Title:聽Respect, Religion, and Feminism: Political Liberalism as Feminist Liberalism? Abstract:聽This chapter considers whether political liberalism, specifically, can be used for feminist ends. There is significant disagreement among feminists and liberals about the compatibility between their two doctrines. Political liberalism is vulnerable to particular criticism from feminists, who argue that its restricted form of equality is…
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
-
July 3, 2024 -Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Greg Restall (58吃瓜)
Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Greg Restall (58吃瓜)
Title:聽What do we聽mean? Semantics, Practices and Pluralism 聽 Abstract:聽In this informal talk, I will revisit some longstanding issues in philosophical logic in the light of some contemporary developments.聽 聽 The longstanding issues? (1) Michael Dummett鈥檚 challenge in聽The Logical Basis of Metaphysics聽to the effect that to get anywhere in fundamental issues of metaphysics we would do…
Thursday, July 4, 2024
-
July 4, 2024 -Unity Pre-Reading: Quasi-Analysis II
Unity Pre-Reading: Quasi-Analysis II
Mormann, Thomas (2009). New Work for Carnap鈥檚 Quasi-Analysis. Journal of Philosophical Logic 38 (3):249-282. https://philpapers.org/rec/MORNWF-2 ALT: Decock, Lieven & Douven, Igor (2011). Similarity After Goodman. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 2 (1):61-75. https://philpapers.org/rec/DECSAG
Friday, July 5, 2024
No events on this day.
Saturday, July 6, 2024
No events on this day.
Sunday, July 7, 2024
No events on this day.