Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Travis Manuel
Title: "Good News for the Subregion Theory of Parthood" Abstract: The Subregion Theory of Parthood is probably the most intuitive theory of parthood. It says...
Title: "Good News for the Subregion Theory of Parthood" Abstract: The Subregion Theory of Parthood is probably the most intuitive theory of parthood. It says...
https://youtu.be/4W1cQwidAUc Abstract. — This talk addresses methodological and political challenges of conceptual engineering in cross-cultural perspective. Based on four case studies of interdisciplinary (empirical and...
Abstract: The notion of risk plays a central role in economics, finance, health, psychology, law and elsewhere, and is prevalent in managing challenges and resources...
Title: Modeling contingently existing propositions (and other intensions). Abstract: The traditional Montagovian framework for the analysis of intensional language uses constant domain models. However, in...
https://youtu.be/Ww-0_fP5Jj0 Abstract. — Talk of function often plays a central role in work on conceptual engineering. An appeal to functions can provide much needed standards...
There are various recent theories of what is the relationship between the mental and the physical (such as grounding theories and panpsychism). This workshop is...
Abstract: This talk defends a contextualist theory of ‘knowledge’ ascriptions. I argue that in some sentences, the implicit argument of ‘knows’ is bound by a...