7 events found.
Week of Events
June 10, 2019
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Metaphysics Seminar: Talk by David Nicolas (Institut Jean Nicod) on “Mereological Choices for Count Nouns and Mass Nouns”
Metaphysics Seminar: Talk by David Nicolas (Institut Jean Nicod) on “Mereological Choices for Count Nouns and Mass Nouns”
Abstract Many semantic theories about count nouns and mass nouns use mereological notions like part and sum. At the lexical level, count nouns are often...
June 11, 2019
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Language and Mind Seminar: Yuri Cath (La Trobe) – Know How and Skill: The Puzzles of Priority and Equivalence
Language and Mind Seminar: Yuri Cath (La Trobe) – Know How and Skill: The Puzzles of Priority and Equivalence
Abstract: This paper is concerned with the relationship between knowledge-how and a family of success in action notions, namely, skills, abilities, dispositions, and intentional actions....
June 11, 2019
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Conceptual Engineering Seminar: talk by Mona Simion (Glasgow)
June 12, 2019
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Epistemology Seminar: Leslie Stevenson, “Conceptual Fault-Lines and Human Agency”
Epistemology Seminar: Leslie Stevenson, “Conceptual Fault-Lines and Human Agency”
NB: Start time is 1.30pm! I will argue from various examples that the inaccessibility of As in terms of Bs need not imply that As...
June 13, 2019
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Super Special Seminar: Thomas Schindler Deflationism and the function of truth
Super Special Seminar: Thomas Schindler Deflationism and the function of truth
Abstract: Deflationists claim that the truth predicate was introduced into our language merely to fulfil a certain logico-linguistic function. Oddly enough, the question what this...
June 13, 2019
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Semantics/Arche Logic Group