ECT Seminar: Jenny Saul – at 3-430pm!!!
Joint meeting with philosophy of language, to take place at the later time of 3-4:30 PM.
Joint meeting with philosophy of language, to take place at the later time of 3-4:30 PM.
Abstract: What are the functions of the predicate ‘is true’ or the noun ‘truth’? Descriptivists assume that the predicate serves to describe a property, which propositions possess if they correspond to the right sort of facts in the world. Pragmatists and deflationists have suggested instead that the truth predicate plays useful roles in encouraging debate and…
Link: Levy and Kinberg, The epistemic imagination revisited
Pre-Read Session: Thomasson, A. L. (2014). It’s a jumble out there: How talk of levels leads us astray. American Philosophical Quarterly, 51(4), 285–296.
We are proud to present the Fourteenth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). On this occasion we are meeting to watch and discuss Little Buddha (1993) with our very own Mario Bison. As it is the summer there is much less preparation for this, and no pre-reads. Sadly, there…
Minding Our Epistemic Business Recently, there has been a lot of theorizing about distinctively epistemic blame. This raises a question: why are the purely epistemic failings of others our business, such that we have standing to blame them? Cameron Boult provides an answer: given how thoroughly epistemically interdependent we are, our epistemic failures let others…
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