Philosophy

LECTURE CANCELLED!!

ABSTRACT

In addition to indexicality, Recanati will argue that we need to make room for another form of context-dependence, namely pragmatic modulation ; and Recanati will discuss the implications of this new form of context-dependence for semantics.

Throughout his works Aristotle claims that scientific knowledge is of universals. It is an important claim for him, because he holds that only of universals, and not of particulars, there are definitions, and definitions are at the basis of scientific knowledge. Moreover, he also characterizes other epistemic states, such as knowledge consisting in having experience, in contrast as being concerned with particulars.

The standard interpretation of Galen’s general philosophical stance presents him as an eclectic, that is to say as a philosopher who does not commit himself to the entirety of the doctrines of a particular philosophical school, but selects from different theories different elements which seem fitting to him and which he combines in such a way as to produce a coherent system.

Abstract: Beliefs have the capacity to guide human behaviour regardless of their truth. In particular, false beliefs can motivate behaviour that is adaptive. Disconfirmation of the beliefs is a threat to their stability, however. The beliefs can be protected from disconfirmation by having content that minimises potential empirical consequences as well as existing in a context that discourages investigation of them or provides only very limited access to the methods that might be used to investigate them.

Frege’s judgement stroke gives rise to three questions: What is its meaning or function? How does it fit with Frege’s anti-psychologism? Are we unjustly ignoring it in logic? This paper presents a novel attempt to answer these questions. It discusses the main interpretations currently available in the literature, i.e. the operator (Black, Greiman), the index (Geach, Smith), the epistemic (Green) and the performative (Künne) account, and finds them all wanting.

The conference aims to bring together graduate students from Central-East Europe and the rest of the world who share an interest in analytic philosophy, analytically oriented history of philosophy and continental philosophy. We are delighted to welcome Dr. Stephen Mulhall from Oxford University, who will give the keynote address.

Conference Schedule:

Alien
(Directed by Ridley Scott, 1979, 117 min.)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skeritt, Ian Holm

The Philm Club aims at screening and discussing movies that raise philosophically relevant issues in accessible as well as entertaining ways.

A Defense of Anachronistic History of Philosophy

David Weberman (CEU)