Gostovanje Dana Zemana na Znanstvenom centru ''Berislav Žarnić''

Dan Zeman, sa Sveučilišta u Varšavi, održat će na našem centru znanstveno predavanje u petak, 10. lipnja 2022. u 18:00, u učionici P16.

Predavanje je naslovljeno: Contextualism and Relativism: Latest Arguments and Developments

Sažetak: 

n this survey talk, I focus on the debate between contextualism and relativism in current philosophy of language, as applied to the category of natural language expressions known as “perspectival expressions”- predicates of personal taste, aesthetic adjectives, moral terms, epistemic modals and epistemic vocabulary, gradable adjectives etc. The main difference between the two (broad) views is the role they assign to context (content-determinative and circumstance-determinative, respectively) and, consequently, the types of semantic contents they claim utterances containing the target expressions have. The debate has been going on for quite some time, and various types of arguments have been proposed: the argument from faultless disagreement, the argument from retraction, arguments based on syntactic phenomena (binding, control, etc.), the argument from perspectival plurality, and arguments from the behaviour of the target expressions in embeddings under various attitude verbs (“think/believe”, “know”, “find” etc.). I will have a look at the current status of each of these arguments, attempt to assess their dialectical efficacy and signal what I take to be future fruitful avenues to explore. 

Pozivamo nastavnike i studente Filozofskog fakulteta da sudjeluju na predavanju i uključe se u raspravu.

English:

Dan Zeman, from the University of Warsaw, will hold a scientific talka t our Centre, on Friday 10th June, at 18:00, in classroom P16.

The title of the talk is:  Contextualism and Relativism: Latest Arguments and Developments

Abstract: 

n this survey talk, I focus on the debate between contextualism and relativism in current philosophy of language, as applied to the category of natural language expressions known as “perspectival expressions”- predicates of personal taste, aesthetic adjectives, moral terms, epistemic modals and epistemic vocabulary, gradable adjectives etc. The main difference between the two (broad) views is the role they assign to context (content-determinative and circumstance-determinative, respectively) and, consequently, the types of semantic contents they claim utterances containing the target expressions have. The debate has been going on for quite some time, and various types of arguments have been proposed: the argument from faultless disagreement, the argument from retraction, arguments based on syntactic phenomena (binding, control, etc.), the argument from perspectival plurality, and arguments from the behaviour of the target expressions in embeddings under various attitude verbs (“think/believe”, “know”, “find” etc.). I will have a look at the current status of each of these arguments, attempt to assess their dialectical efficacy and signal what I take to be future fruitful avenues to explore. 

Teachers and students of Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences are invited to the talk and subsequent discusssion.