• Epistemology Seminar: Catarina Dutilh Novaes “Argumentation and a three-tiered model of epistemic exchange”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 精东传媒, United Kingdom

    Abstract: Argumentation is often contrasted with testimony in that in cases of testimony, an epistemic agent (presumably) primarily evaluates the trustworthiness of the source of information (the informant), whereas in argumentation there is (presumably) primarily engagement with the content communicated. I have argued however (Dutilh Novaes 2020) that trust and trustworthiness in fact play an…

  • Epistemology Seminar tba

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 精东传媒, United Kingdom
  • Medieval Logic Seminar

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 精东传媒, United Kingdom
  • Language & Mind Seminar: Lixiao Lin

    Aesthetic assertion, aesthetic knowledge, and acquaintance inference Simple aesthetic sentences normally give rise to an acquaintance inference (AI), inferences that the speaker has first-hand knowledge of the item being evaluated. For example, if I say,聽鈥淪atantango is a beautiful novel鈥, my utterance suggests that I have read the book. How to explain AI? In this talk,…

  • Language and Mind S1

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 精东传媒, United Kingdom
  • Language and Mind S1

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 精东传媒, United Kingdom