{"id":3203,"date":"2020-05-28T10:35:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/conceptual-engineering-seminar-allison-koslow-mit\/"},"modified":"2020-06-23T23:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T22:59:46","slug":"conceptual-engineering-seminar-allison-koslow-mit","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/conceptual-engineering-seminar-allison-koslow-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Allison Koslow (MIT). &#8220;Going on in the same way&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract. \u2014<\/strong> Do conceptual revisions change the subject? Do revolutionary analyses of familiar kinds? A standard picture of meaning \u2014 that an expression\u2019s truth conditions are essential to it \u2014 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 synonymy. The main obstacle to continuity of subject appears to be a kind of contingency in how we go on with a term. So, for instance, it might seem that if we could have properly withheld \u201cphone\u201d from cellphones when first invented, \u201cphone\u201d has since changed its meaning. I argue that, seen aright, there is more than one way to go on in the same way. The meaning of, say, \u201cphone\u201d or \u201cwoman\u201d, does not settle how to go on, because there is no absolute fact of the matter about what that meaning is. But, whichever way we go on, in hindsight, will be going on in the same way. This talk defends the view that intensions are projected, a version of semantic relativism. Tune in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract. \u2014 Do conceptual revisions change the subject? Do revolutionary analyses of familiar kinds? A standard picture of meaning \u2014 that an expression\u2019s truth conditions are essential to it \u2014&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":[8],"class_list":["post-3203","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-conceptual-engineering-seminar","cat_conceptual-engineering-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3203","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3203\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}