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Joan Gimeno-Simo will lead the discussion on Yalcin, Seth (2015) Semantics and metasemantics in the context of generative grammar. In Burgess, A. & Sherman, B....
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Abstract Paradigm cases of conceptual engineering involve topic preservation through semantic change. The challenge (known as Strawson's challenge) is to explain how this is possible.... |
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Relevant Alternatives and Missed Clues: Redux I construe Relevant Alternatives Theory (RAT) as an abstract combination of epistemic fallibilism and epistemic modesty, then re-evaluate the... |
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The Workshop on History of Arabic Logic has two main aims: to make better known the richness and importance of Arabic logic, that is, logic...
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Next Tuesday (May 7th) Amr Salih will lead the discussion on Derek Ball's "Relativism, Metasemantics, and the Future". The discussion will focus on the introduction...
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Abstract We contrast prominent naturalistic lines of research on the traditional method of cases (MoC), exemplified by Williamson (2007) and Machery (2017). Both philosophers hold that MoC is best... |
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Recently, some people have suggested that in order for imagination to be a useful guide to knowledge of what is possible, one has to imagine... |
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Abstract: In this talk, I examine the nature and role of imaginables, i.e. some kinds of impossible non-entities, in Marsilius of Inghen’s logic and natural... |
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Abstract: What is it for an expression to have a meaning in a community's language? David Lewis can be taken to argue in his “Languages... |
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Abstract: Why is it that some instances of disagreement appear to be so intractable? And what is the appropriate way to handle such disagreements, especially... |
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This week we'll review what's been covered so far, and discuss Yablo's Aboutness chs. 1-4. |
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Deepfake technology uses machine learning to fabricate video and audio recordings that represent people doing and saying things they've never done. In coming years, malicious... |
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Abstract: There are strong reasons for holding that consciousness is a sharp phenomenon and that it appeared on the scene suddenly. There are also strong...
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Abstract In this talk I would like to draw attention to a class of concepts, inescapable concepts, and their significance for philosophy, in particular metaphysics.... |
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Miguel will lead us through a discussion of Jane Friedman's recent paper "Inquiry and Belief" (Nous, 2019). Available here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nous.12222 |
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Abstract The dominant view in contemporary philosophy is that possible worlds are classically closed – closed under classical logic. (If A is true at a...
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This week, Aaron Cotnoir will lead discussion on Fine's 'Angellic Content'. |
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Abstract Spacetime has structure, and objects have structure. A collection of principles, known as harmony principles, posit that the mereologies of the two structures behave... |
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I discuss an unusual technique for learning metaphysical necessities that I call the "Procedure of Imaginative Transfer" and note some ways it complicates Kripke's case...
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Abstract This talk will explore the causes, upsides, and drawbacks of adjusting or introducing concepts and language for the purposes of inquiry. While technical concepts... |
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The sceptical paradox arises from the tension between three appealing claims: (1) that one cannot know the negation of a sceptical hypothesis, (2) that if... |
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