{"id":11966,"date":"2024-06-28T10:48:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/language-and-mind-seminar-derek-ball-university-of-st-andrews\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T10:09:41","slug":"language-and-mind-seminar-derek-ball-university-of-st-andrews","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/language-and-mind-seminar-derek-ball-university-of-st-andrews\/","title":{"rendered":"Language and Mind seminar: Derek Ball (University of 58³Ô¹Ï)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Title: \u201cImmanent Interpretation\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Bryan Pickel and Derek Ball<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Abstract: Famous arguments purport to show that all, or a substantial fragment, of language is indeterminate in meaning.\u00a0 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 speakers of the same language; more contemporary versions focus on the interpretation of context-sensitive expressions such as quantifier domain restrictions (Heck, Buchanan).\u00a0 We show that these arguments fail because they ignore evidence that is available to interpreters \u2013 evidence that arises from the interpreters themselves as language users.\u00a0 But our aim is not merely to rebut indeterminacy arguments.\u00a0 We construct a research strategy for interpreters to meet the concerns of the proponents of indeterminacy arguments.\u00a0 The strategy is available to interpreters in a wide range of cases, but (time permitting) we will also discuss cases (such as the interpretation of AI, or of non-human animals) in which it might fail.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: \u201cImmanent Interpretation\u201d Bryan Pickel and Derek Ball Abstract: Famous arguments purport to show that all, or a substantial fragment, of language is indeterminate in meaning.\u00a0 Quine and Davidson motivated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[19],"class_list":["post-11966","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-language-and-mind-seminar","cat_language-and-mind-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11970,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11966\/revisions\/11970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11966"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}