7 events found.
Week of Events
April 30, 2019
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Language and Mind Seminar: Joan Gimeno-Simo on Yalcin’s “Semantics and metasemantics in the contexts of generative grammar”
Language and Mind Seminar: Joan Gimeno-Simo on Yalcin’s “Semantics and metasemantics in the contexts of generative grammar”
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....
April 30, 2019
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Talk by Sarah Sawyer (Sussex) on “Truth and Objectivity in Conceptual Engineering”
Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Talk by Sarah Sawyer (Sussex) on “Truth and Objectivity in Conceptual Engineering”
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....
May 1, 2019
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Epistemology Seminar: Peter Hawke (Amsterdam), “Relevant Alternatives and Missed Clues”
Epistemology Seminar: Peter Hawke (Amsterdam), “Relevant Alternatives and Missed Clues”
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...