Semantics/Arche Logic Group: Yablo’s ‘Aboutness’ (chs. 3-4)
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Super Special Seminar: Dr Graziana Ciola (Durham), “Marsilius of Inghen (and Albert of Saxony) on Ampliation to the Imaginable”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract: 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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Epistemology Seminar: Tom Schoonen (Amsterdam), “Concrete Imagination and Epistemology of Possibility”
Edgecliffe G03Recently, 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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Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Peter Hawke & Tom Schoonen (Amsterdam) on “Are Gettier cases disturbing?”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract 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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Language and Mind Seminar: Amr Salih on Derek Ball’s “Relativism, Metasemantics,and the Future”
Edgecliffe G03Next 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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Epistemology Seminar: Peter Hawke (Amsterdam), “Relevant Alternatives and Missed Clues”
Edgecliffe G03Relevant 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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Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Talk by Sarah Sawyer (Sussex) on “Truth and Objectivity in Conceptual Engineering”
Edgecliffe G03Abstract 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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Language and Mind Seminar: Joan Gimeno-Simo on Yalcin’s “Semantics and metasemantics in the contexts of generative grammar”
Edgecliffe G03Joan Gimeno-Simo will lead the discussion on Yalcin, Seth (2015) Semantics and metasemantics in the context of generative grammar. In Burgess, A. & Sherman, B....