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The project in Philosophy of Language will focus on the problem of predication, on contextualism and minimalism in semantics and on whether the concept of truth requires a relativistic treatment.
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Reading Burge V: The Origins of Objectivity ch. 10 (first half)
We will meet to discuss ch. 10 (first half) of Tyler Burge's "Origins of Objectivity", titled "Origins of some representational categories". Discussion leader: Paolo Leonardi
Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23, III° piano.
Reading Burge IV: The Origins of Objectivity ch. 9
We will meet to discuss ch. 9 of Tyler Burge's "Origins of Objectivity", titled "Origins". Discussion leader: Sebastiano Moruzzi
Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23, III° piano.
Reading Burge III: The Origins of Objectivity ch. 8
We will meet to discuss ch. 8 of Tyler Burge's "Origins of Objectivity", titled "Biological and methodological backgrounds". Discussion leader: Carmen Granito Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23, III° piano.
Reading Burge II: The Origins of Objectivity ch. 7
We will meet to discuss ch. 7 of Tyler Burge's "Origins of Objectivity", titled "Language interpretation and individual representationalism: Quine and Davidson". Discussion leader: Michele Palmira
Venue: Studio di Paolo Leonardi, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23, III° piano.
Relativism and Disagreement Workshop 1
20/5/2011
10.00-11.30 M. Carpintero (Barcelona, Logos): Relativism, the Open Future, and Propositional Truth
11.45-13.15 M. Palmira (Modena, Cogito): The epistemic view of faultless disagreement
15.30-17.00 S. Moruzzi (Bologna, Cogito) & A. Coliva (Modena, Cogito): Truth-relativism and disagreement
17.15-18.45 D. Belleri (Bologna, Cogito) Relative Truth, Lost Disagreement and Invariantism on Predicates of Personal Taste
21/5/2011
10.00-11.30 T. Marques (Lisbon, LanCog): Content Disagreement
11.45-13.15 C. Bagnoli (Modena&Reggio Emilia): Coherence and universality in ethics. The case of faultless disagreements
Venue: Sala Rossa, Dipartimento Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo gardino 23, III floor, Bologna
Elijah Millgram's talk on relativism
Prof. Elijah Millgram, University of Utah
"Relativism, Coherence and the Problems of Philosophy"
Venue: Sala Rossa, Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23, III° piano
Online paper: http://www.philosophy.utah.edu/Faculty/millgram/rel.pdf
Handout attached below.
Abstract:
Why is relativism respectable in some academic disciplines but not in
others? Relativism is taken seriously in philosophy, and some
philosophers are relativists; but many, perhaps most, are not. Why is
philosophy a mixed case? I will argue that the different academic
[Philosophy of Language Seminar] Claudia Bianchi 's talk "Impliciti, intenzioni e raccomandazioni"
Claudia Bianchi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan) will give a talk.
Speraker: Claudia Bianchi
Title: "Impliciti, intenzioni e raccomandazioni"
Date: 16/2/2011
Venue: Sala Rossa, Dipartimento Discipline della COmunicazione, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.
Time: 15-18
[ISA Talks] A. Kenny "The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? " part 2
SA Talks
Speaker: Sir Anthony Kenny (Oxford)
Title: The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? part 2
Venue: tba
Time: 16
[ISA Talks] A. Kenny "The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? " part 1
ISA Talks
Speaker: Sir Anthony Kenny (Oxford)
Title: The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? part 1
Venue: tba
Time: tba
COGITO DAY V
COGITO DAY V
Venue: Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione, Sala Rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.
10.45-12.15 Carla Bagnoli (Modena & University Wisconsin-Milwaukee) "The claim of objectivity and the misrepresentation of moral experience"
12.15-13.15 Delia Belleri (Bologna & COGITO) "What is semantic under-determinacy?".
15.00-16.30 Annalisa Coliva (Modena & COGITO) "One Variety of Self-Knowledge: Constitutivism as Constructivism"
Philosophy of Language Research Seminar: Samuel Rickless on Descriptivism
prof. Samuel Rickless (San Diego University) will give a talk.
- Speaker: Samuel Rickless
- Venue: Sala rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna
- Title: Advantages and Disadvantages of Pragmatic Descriptivism .
Philosophy of Language Research Seminar: Luca Moretti on Scepticism, metaphysical possibilities and fuzzy probabilities
prof. Luca Moretti (Aberdeen University - NIP) will give a talk.
- Speaker: Luca Moretti
- Venue: Sala rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna
- Title:Scepticism, metaphysical possibilities and fuzzy probabilities
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Philosophy of Language Research Seminar: Delia Belleri on Semantic Underdeterminacy
- Speaker: Delia Belleri
- Title: "Is Semantically Underdetermined Content really Non-Propositional?"
- Venue: Sala Rossa, III floor. via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.
Directions - Torino
Conference on Truth (and Relativism), Torino and Bologna, 3-6 June, 2010
Directions - Torino
If you are coming to Torino by plane (Caselle airport), take a taxi (about 30€) or the airport bus to Porta Nuova (5,50€; tickets cannot be bought on the bus. There is a ticket counter on the Arrivals level, next to the Tourist Office). The bus leaves from across the Arrivals section every 45 minutes on holydays (June 2 is a national holyday in Italy). It takes about 40 minutes to Porta Nuova, 35 to Porta Susa.
John MacFarlane's visit
Professor John MacFarlane (Berkeley) will be visiting Cogito from June 7 to June 11 2010.
Prof. MacFarlane will lead a series of five research seminars in Bologna.
Philosophy of Language Research Seminar: MacFarlane's Seminar 5
Prof. John MacFarlane, visiting professor at Cogito from June 7 to June 11, will lead a series of five research seminars.
This is the fifth, and last, seminar of the series.
Philosophy of Language Research Seminar: MacFarlane's Seminar 4
Prof. John MacFarlane, visiting professor at Cogito from June 7 to June 11, will lead a series of five research seminars.
This is the fourth seminar of the series.
Philosophy of Language Research Seminar: MacFarlane's Seminar 3
Prof. John MacFarlane, visiting professor at Cogito from June 7 to June 11, will lead a series of five research seminars.
This is the third seminar of the series.
Philosophy of Language Research Seminar: MacFarlane's Seminar 2
Prof. John MacFarlane, visiting professor at Cogito from June 7 to June 11, will lead a series of five research seminars.
This is the second seminar of the series.
Philosophy of Language Research Seminar: MacFarlane's Seminar 1
Prof. John MacFarlane, visiting professor at Cogito from June 7 to June 11, will lead <a series of five research seminars.
This is the first seminar of the series.
