Abstract: Are social identities relevant to perceptual experience? If we were to draw on the phenomenological tradition to ask this, we might say instead: is perceptual experience situated? If so, in what way? Embodied theories of perception might be good candidates to answer this question, since they claim that the body and the environment make…
Abstract: Take an account of property individuation to be hyperintensional just in case that account individuates properties more finely than necessary equivalence. Proponents of hyperintensional accounts of property individuation are generally led to embrace these accounts because of certain phenomena surrounding concepts like meaning, thought, and knowledge. For example, we can think about a triangle…
Abstract. 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…
Deborah 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@)
Abstract 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…
*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.
We will discuss chapter 4 and 5 of Derek Ball鈥檚 book manuscript.聽Please notice that only next week, our meeting will be from 11 to 1 pm. The seminar will happen in Zoom. Please e-mail me at si24@ if you want to join.
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