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Epistemology Seminar: Timothy Williamson (Oxford) “Knowledge by sight and knowledge by proof”
Abstract: Knowledge by sight is a standard paradigm of a posteriori knowledge. Knowledge by mathematical proof is a standard paradigm of a priori knowledge. However, I will argue that the two types of knowledge have so much in common that the a priori – a posteriori distinction cannot go very deep.
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Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave, Insolubles
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 精东传媒, United Kingdom -
Language & Mind Seminar: Jessica Keiser (Leeds)
Linguistic Conventions and Language Change: I argue that data about language change casts doubt on the following two theses of the Lewisian metasemantic picture: that the essential function of language is communication, and that people share a language in virtue of a common interest (namely, to achieve that particular function). I propose a novel metasemantic…
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Medieval Logic Seminar: Walter Segrave, Insolubles
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 精东传媒, United Kingdom -
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Epistemology Seminar: Jane Friedman (NYU) “The Aim of Inquiry?”
Abstract: It is said that inquiry has an aim, though it’s not entirely clear how we should think about this claim. What, in general, does it mean to say that the activity of inquiry has an aim? In this talk I go through a few options and think about them within the context of the…