ABSTRACT. 鈥斅燩hilosophers have taken a wide range of approaches to defining health. I offer a pessimistic take on such definitional projects. I will argue, not only that extant accounts are flawed, but that no theory which seeks to give a single, unified conceptual definition of health can succeed. ZOOM INFO Meeting ID:聽892 5895 0975 Password:聽ACEW21…
Title: On American and Australian plans for negation Abstract: Francesco Berto, later joined by Greg Restall, defends a modal account of negation, or the Australian plan for negation. The aim of this talk is to carefully examine and compare Australian and American plans for negation. To this end, I will consider four cases, and draw…
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…
*Session jointly hosted with ARCH脡’s “Mind & Language” Research Group ABSTRACT. 鈥� We should all be supporters of conceptual聽engineering. I take that to be relatively uncontroversial. But why 鈥� exactly? That’s where the controversy starts. I give the answer I like, drawing on a view in metaphysics which explains why we need conceptual analyses (of…
Title: Truthmaker semantics for containment and nonsense Abstract: Conceptivism is the doctrine according to which a proposition cannot entail another proposition if the latter contains a concept which is not already contained in the former: entailment does not introduce any additional conceptual content. This doctrine motivates so-called containment logics, namely logics where a formula B…
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