Related events (Linguistics and Philosophy feeds)
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9/29
Brown Bag: Bill Lycan, "Questions, Answers And Lies"
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10/1
Professional Development Workshop For ECE/Philosophy Teachers
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10/1
Logic Colloquium: Dilip Ninan (Tufts)
Logic Colloquium: Dilip Ninan (Tufts)
Friday, October 1st, 2021
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus ITE 336
Join us for the Logic Colloquium
Dilip Ninan (Tufts)
“An Expressivist Theory of Taste Predicates”
Abstract:
Simple taste predications typically come with an ‘acquaintance requirement’: they normally require the speaker to have had a certain kind of first-hand experience with the object of predication. For example, if I told you that the crème caramel is delicious, you would ordinarily assume that I have actually tasted the crème caramel and am not simply relying on the testimony of others. The present essay argues in favor of a ‘lightweight' expressivist account of the acquaintance requirement. This account consists of a recursive semantics and a ‘supervaluational’ account of assertion; it is compatible with a number of different accounts of truth and content, including contextualism, relativism, and purer forms of expressivism. The principal argument in favor of this account is that it correctly predicts a wide range of data concerning how the acquaintance requirement interacts with Boolean connectives, generalized quantifiers, epistemic modals, and attitude verbs.
All welcome!
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10/6
Brown Bag: Mitch Green, “How To Pull An Epistemic Rabbit Out Of A Fictional Hat: On Gaining Knowledge, Or Something Close Enough, From Works Of Fiction.”
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10/11
ECOM Spotlight Series: Charles Davis
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10/12
Meeting with DGS and 2nd Year Grads
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10/13
UCHI Fellow's Talk: Drew Johnson
UCHI Fellow's Talk: Drew Johnson
Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Storrs Campus Homer Babbidge 4-209
Drew Johnson will discuss "Entrenchment and Disagreement in Morality and Politics: Reason, Passion, and the Point of Moral and Political Discourse" with response by Prakash Kashwan.
This event will also be livestreamed. To attend virtually, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ht11gv1LQN6nZUNYoPxk9A
For more information: https://humanities.uconn.edu/2021/09/24/fellows-talk-drew-johnson-on-moral-and-political-judgment/ -
10/15
Linguistics Colloquium: Miloje Despic (Cornell)
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10/19
Meeting with DGS and 3rd Year Grads
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10/20
Brown Bag: Ahmad Jabbar And Drew Johnson, TBA (On Expressivism)
