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Institutskolloquium
Programm WiSe 2018/19 (Poster)
Bitte beachten: Im WiSe 20182/019 findet das Institutskolloquium im Sitzungssaal des Akademischen Senats (AS-Saal) im Hauptgebäudes der Universität Hamburg in der Edmund Siemers Alle 1 statt (Lagebeschreibung des AS-Saals) und am 21.11.2018 im Überseering 35, 22297 Hamburg, Raum 03080.
| Datum | Sprecher | Thema |
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| 17.10.2018 | Karolina Krzyżanowska (Amsterdam) | True clauses, false connections, and indicative conditionals: What Grice got wrong |
| True clauses, false connections, and indicative conditionals: What Grice got wrong Abstract: The majority of theories of indicative conditionals validate the Principle of Conjunctive Sufficiency. That is, on those accounts, whenever the antecedent, P, and the consequent, Q, are true, the conditional, “If P then Q," is acceptable, whether or not there is a meaningful connection between P and Q. At the same time, almost everyone seems to agree that conditionals without a connection are odd. Gricean explanation of the oddity of missing-link conditionals rests on an observation that such conditionals are rendered highly acceptable only in situations in which a stronger assertion, for instance, that of a conjunction of P and Q, is warranted. Asserting a weaker, less informative conditional is odd because it is a violation of the Maxim of Quantity. In my talk, I will present empirical data that challenge Gricean explanation of why missing-link conditionals are odd. Furthermore, I will argue that these findings can be reconciled with general principles of Gricean pragmatics, but at the cost of giving up Conjunctive Sufficiency. |
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| 14.11.2018 | Franziska Poprawe (...) | Reasoning without Reasons |
| The current debate on reasoning centres on two major questions: I) What is reasoning (or inference)? II) What is correct reasoning? Reasoning is here understood as the mental activity through which we derivatively form beliefs and intentions on the basis of some premises. A dominant view in the debate is the so-called Reasons View, according to which (I) the nature and (II) the correctness of reasoning can be explained in terms of normative reasons. Put roughly, the view is that reasoning is a way of responding to reasons and you reason correctly only if the premises are (good) reasons for the conclusion. I first argue that the Reasons View is underdeveloped. Though many authors assume a close relation between reasoning and normative reasons, few defend it in detail. I then argue that recently proposed accounts are untenable. The prospects of the Reasons View look dim. Reasoning is not essentially responding to reasons, and the standard of correctness of reasoning does not derive from normative reasons for belief and action. The arguments suggest that we can explain the nature and correctness of reasoning in more fundamental normative terms. I end my exploring this path towards a novel theory of reasoning. | ||
| 21.11.2018 | Patricia Rich (Hamburg) | tbd Überseering 35, 22297 Hamburg, Raum 03080 |
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| 28.11.2018 | Insa Lawler (Bochum) | Knowing why and gradability |
| We not only want to know whether things are the case but also why they are the case. Like other forms of so-called knowledge-wh, knowing why p is commonly analyzed in terms of knowledge-that: One knows why p iff one knows that p because q, for some q. One knows why a particular chemical reaction occurred iff one knows that it occurred because, say, oxygen was introduced. However, in contrast to knowing that p, knowing why p varies in depth and quality. Intuitively, one cannot know better than someone else that the chemical reaction occurred, but one can clearly know better why it occurred. Prima facie, knowing why is gradable. Can knowing why p nonetheless be analyzed in terms of p because q knowledge? And what is the nature of the apparent gradability? In my talk, I tackle these questions, drawing on insights from linguistics, epistemology, and philosophy of science. | ||
| 12.12.2018 | Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex) | Morality and nature: A contemporary challenge to Kantian ethics |
| My talk examines a proposal for naturalising moral norms inspired by Aristotle, defended originally by Philippa Foot (2001) and subsequently by Michael Thompson (2003, 2004, 2008). This strand of neo-Aristotelianism is of special interest from a Kantian perspective for a number of reasons. First, like Kantian ethics, Aristotelian ethics within this tradition is objectivist. However, and this is considered to be an advantage, it is also resolutely naturalist, unlike some -perhaps most- versions of Kantianism. Secondly, neo-Aristotelean ethics is based on a conception of humanity rather than of rationality. This is considered an advantage for dealing with substantive ethical questions, because Aristotelean ethics is better equipped to deal with the complexity and variety of human life, but also importantly, from a meta-ethical perspective because it has a more plausible account of practical reasoning, one that is more integrated to how human beings actually reason, than the Kantian one. Finally, because legislation is not the core notion of such an ethics, the problem of the authority of the moral law, a problem originally identified by Elisabeth Anscombe (1958) as being particularly tricky for Kant’s moral philosophy, simply does not arise. In summary then, Aristotelian ethics has the resources to address a range of first and second order ethical questions in a way that offers comparative advantages to Kantian ethics. My talk examines some of these questions, narrowing my remit to second-order questions about the nature of the good and the authority of norms. My aim is to motivate a Kantian non-naturalist response to this important neo-Aristotelian challenge. | ||
| 09.01.2019 | Mirela Fuš (Oslo) | The Unity and Scope of Conceptual Engineering |
| A growing group of philosophers has recently taken up and extended Carnap's project of explication, which “consists in transforming a given more or less inexact concept into an exact one or, rather, in replacing the first by the second” (Carnap 1950: 3). In contemporary philosophical methodology, these projects go by different names, one of the most prominent being called Conceptual Engineering (see Blackburn (1999), Brandom (2001), Chalmers (2011), Scharp (2013), Eklund (2014, 2015), Cappelen (2018)). In this talk, I’m interested in answering the Nature Question of Conceptual Engineering or what engineering projects in philosophy are. The talk has a negative part and a positive part. In the negative part, I claim that anybody who wants to answer the Nature Question faces two problems: (i) the Unity Challenge — the field is highly disunited, and (ii) the Scope Challenge — we haven’t even reached a consensus about what its scope is. In the positive part, I then indirectly answer the Nature Question by, firstly, looking at issues concerning Unity, and, secondly, issues concerning Scope of Conceptual Engineering. Finally, as part of an answer to the aforementioned challenges, I propose the introduction of Philosophical Engineering. | ||
| 16.01.2019 | Corine Besson (Sussex) | Anti-Exceptionalism about Logic and the A Priori |
| It is widely held that logic is a priori. It is also widely held that so-called “anti-exceptionalism” about logic, according to which the methods of logic are continuous with that of the sciences, is incompatible with its apriority. This talk explores the nature of this alleged incompatibility and finds that there is room for the a priori within the anti-exceptionalist programme. | ||
Das Institutskolloquium im Wintersemester 2018/2019 wird organisiert von Sergiu Spatan
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