Titile: Can Someone Be a Semantic Externalist Experimental Philosopher? Abstract: Among experimental philosophy of language, semantic internalism is not merely the dominant metasemantic view 鈥� it is universal. Experimental philosophers of language take the target of their inquiry to be wholly mind-dependent and revealed by participant responses to survey questions. At the same time, some…
No meeting due to the concurrent CEPPA Fest.
Title: Mental Hypertime Abstract: Hypertime, if it exists, is a second dimension of time. The hypothesis of聽mental hypertime聽says that the mind has a second representation of time. This enables the mind to represent the world as though there were a second time dimension, even though both representations may in fact be of the same real…
Title: Regret Abstract: There are many ways to feel bad about things. This paper is about which of those ways of feeling bad count as regret, and why. I will suggest that a very great deal of our bad feelings are regrets, in opposition to the narrower view of some philosophers and psychologists who restrict…
Title: Numerical and Mereological Indeterminacy. Abstract:This talk has two aims, one negative and the other positive.聽 The negative aim is to argue against the possibility of numerical or mereological indeterminacy by showing how the arguments given by Sider and Lewis can be modified so as to be resistant to the objections that might reasonably be…
Title: Reference Without Identity Abstract: Singular reference to non-individuals is often thought to be impossible. At present, however, this claim rests solely on intuitions. In this paper, I present four arguments in favour of the impossibility of singular reference to non-individuals.
Title: Depression and the Open Future Abstract: We intuitively think that the past is fixed or closed whereas the future is open. In a phenomenological description of depression, however, depressed subjects often report that the future is closed. Our na茂ve view of the open future thus seems to be impaired. What makes the depressed subjects…
Title:聽A New Problem for Logical Contextualism Abstract:聽Logical contextualism is the view that 鈥榲alid鈥� is a context-sensitive expression. One key reason to endorse logical contextualism is that, unlike traditional forms of logical pluralism, it can avoid the so-called聽collapse problem. Logical contextualism relies on the crucial assumption that each conversational context determines a uniquely appropriate logical consequence…
TITLE:聽Probabilistic Arbitrary Reference ABSTRACT:聽Arbitrary Reference is the idea that we can refer to individual entities with some degree of arbitrariness. Although there are different accounts of Arbitrary Reference, nearly all of them can be challenged on the basis that they entail the existence of free-floating semantic facts, namely: semantic facts which are not grounded in…
Title: Kant risk a lie! Abstract: Immanuel Kant says, 鈥渓ying is the chief sin against others, alongside robbery, murder and stuproviolatio鈥�. Kant never risks robbery, murder, or rape. But Kant does risk telling intentionally deceptive falsehoods. Instead of being a man a few words, Kant is a man of three million words. Equally revealing is…
Title: Seeing Holes-without seeing what they are holes in Abstract: Peering down into a tall box, you see a ring. The ring is removed. To your surprise this uncovers a second duplicate ring. Did you see the hole of the bottom ring before you saw the bottom ring? Each answer is backed by good reasons.…
Title:聽Can a Russellian Monist Be a Genuine Physicalist? Abstract: Currently, Russellian Monism is a cutting-edge theory in the discussion of phenomenal consciousness. It has the potential to retain the advantages of both narrow physicalism and narrow dualism by locating phenomenal consciousness in a fundamentally unified universe, having it play essential causal roles in the physical…
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