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The Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to the upcoming talk
Zoltán Gendler Szabó (YALE)
How specific should I be?
The talk will be online.
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You can’t normally utter ‘I like that car’ out of the blue when there is no car around. The standard view in philosophy of language is that this is because the sentence fails to express a specific proposition in such a context, and hence, there is nothing specific you can say in uttering it. On the other hand, if you point at a car nearby your utterance is unproblematic: it is true or false depending on whether you like the car you pointed at. Alas, the standard view does not predict this – your gesture does not differentiate between the car type and the car token, so there is still no specific proposition for the sentence to expresses, and still nothing specific for you to say in uttering it.
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One of our researchers, Peter Andras Varga is attending the conference of the Husserl Archives at the University of Cologne in Germany. His lecture, entitled Das Problem der Biographie von Edmund Husserl, is dedicated to his conception of writing the philosophical biography of Edmund Husserl. The poster of the online conference is available here.
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The Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, cordially invites you to the Murmansk–Budapest international scientific seminar entitled The migration of ideas and the formation of national philosophical traditions: dialogues across the borders, funded by RFBR and FRLC, (project number № 20-511-23002). The programme of the seminar is available here; (the initial date in the programme is calculated by Moscow time).
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The Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to the upcoming talk
Carl Hoefer (University of Barcelona)
Scientific realism and direct reference to unobservable natural kinds
The talk will be online and is based on a paper that is a joint work with Genoveva Martí.
Abstract:
In this talk I continue my defense of a version of scientific realism, Tautological Scientific Realism (TSR), that rests on the claim that, excluding some areas of fundamental physics about which doubts are entirely justified, many areas of contemporary science cannot be coherently imagined to be false other than via postulation of radically skeptical scenarios, which are not relevant to the realism debate in philosophy of science. I will discuss, specifically, the threats of meaning change and reference failure associated with the Kuhnian tradition, which depend on a descriptivist approach to meaning, and will argue that descriptivism is not the right account of the meaning and reference of theoretical terms.
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Our Institute proudly presents the Forum of Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, a new scholarly platform generated by an international cooperation between our Institute and the University of Crete. The Forum of Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy is a venue dedicated to the study of Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (defined chronologically roughly from 300 BCE to 200 AD). The aim of this forum is to bring together experienced and younger scholars working on Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy from all around the world in order to present new research in this area, exchange views and test new approaches in reading philosophical texts from this period. The Forum is jointly managed by Attila Németh (Institute of Philosophy, RCH, Budapest) and Georgia Tsouni (Department of Classics, University of Crete).
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