Category: Talks SOPhiA

Luis F. Bartolo Alegre LMU Munich According to various perspectives, logic is deemed topic-neutral; that is, it serves as a theory of inference applicable uniformly across diverse topics, contexts, or domains. In essence, the rules of inference established by a logical theory should exhibit indifference to the specific subject matter for which inferences are intended.…

Jacopo Pallagrosi University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia The default view about the nature of propositional knowledge is absolutism, i.e., the idea that knowledge is absolute, an all-or-nothing matter that cannot come in degrees. Absolutism is compatible with what I call extrinsic epistemic gradability, i.e., ordinal comparability between finite sets of distinct known facts.…

Simon Kreutz Ruhr Universität Bochum Although contemporary philosophy of language and formal semantics both have their roots in formal logic, nowadays they operate largely independently of each other. In view of this close connection between language and philosophy, however, the question arises as to what impact semantic theorizing might have on philosophical considerations, particularly within…

Alex McQuibban King’s College London The idea of a just state and the concept of consent seem inextricably linked: for a state to govern justly it must secure the consent of its subjects. Although not universally accepted, this line of thinking has become so popular in modern liberal democracies as to be taken for granted.…

Ritu Sharma University of British Columbia “The paper attempts to provide a roadmap for a model of linguistic agency that is capable of capturing victimization without ruling out the possibility of agency on the part of the silenced/powerless. Drawing on the feminist pragmatist perspective (Banerjee, 2010), I first highlight limitations in Langton’s and Hornsby’s account…

José Carlos Camillo Universidade Federal de Goiás In his paper ‘Is memory for remembering?’, Felipe de Brigard proposes that the memory system is not primarily for accurately remembering but for constructing simulations of possible counterfactual events. I reconstruct his argument and argue that it is misleading.De Brigard’s argument rests on two assumptions. Firstly, he employs…

Tristan Borresen University of Edinburgh The advancement of inferring inner speech from brain signals (NSD) challenges the notion of testimony in law and epistemology. To testify is typically to put into words with one’s voice one’s convictions, memories, desires, —but what if by scanning one’s brain someone could do this independently of one’s vocalizations, and,…

Vera Shumilina Independent Researcher Following ideas of Ch. S. Peirce on continuity of mind (synechism) and universality of semiotic processes (pansemiotism) as well as development of the understanding of manipulative abduction in works of L. Magnani the thesis of possibility of abductive reasoning in non-human animal minds is defended. The relevance of the study is…

Qingxuan Wang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Not being able to speak positively is different from not being able to speak at all, especially when the subject of our speech is the Godhead. This paper aims to explore Maimonides’s negative theology in The Guide of the Perplexed and its reception and interpretation by…