Kolejny odczyt w ramach seminarium Znak-Język-Rzeczywistość/SLR Seminar (20 III 2025): Divesting belief of language

Kolejny odczyt seminarium ZJR odbędzie się:

Czwartek, 20 marca o 2025, 17.00

Irena Dajic
(Medical University of Vienna)

wygłosi odczyt:

Divesting belief of language

Abstrakt:

Language or linguistic ability has long been regarded as constitutive of belief, leading debates about the nature of doxastic phenomena to focus heavily on  their language related properties. Although more contemporary views rarely endorse such a close link between the two, discussions about belief remain strongly influenced by linguistically motivated considerations. Despite their intuitive appeal, retaining some of these inherited assumptions runs the risk not only of conflating distinguishing features of belief with those of language-mediated thought, but also of imposing unwarranted cognitive complexity requirements on doxastic states. This paper addresses the question of whether it is possible to coherently tackle the subject of belief while avoiding these pitfalls. By way of an affirmative answer, I propose an alternative perspective that takes belief’s relationship to truth as an uncontroversial starting point, drawing on pragmatist theories to develop a more substantial account of that relationship and motivate a way of conceptualizing belief that sidesteps some of the relevant issues. In what follows, I discuss several implications of this view, one of which is the reversal of belief’s position relative to language, such that instead of language being constitutive of belief, belief itself emerges as foundational for language based thought.

Seminarium odbędzie się online, aby dołączyć do spotkania, prosimy o
skorzystanie z poniższych informacji:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/92716044372?pwd=0l7PETAOwqQDBKTMCnheYQN7ag7zx1.1

Meeting ID: 927 1604 4372
Passcode: 697648

Strona seminarium (z orientacyjną listą spotkań):
http://pts.edu.pl/seminarium-2024-2025-seminar-2024-2025.html

Spotkanie otwiera się o 16:45, a wykład rozpoczyna się o 17:00.

Prezentacja będzie nagrywana.

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The next meeting of the Sign-Language-Reality seminar in the academic
year 2024/25 will take place:

Thursday, the 20th of March 2025, 17.00, Central European Time

Irena Dajic
(Medical University of Vienna)

will deliver a talk:

Divesting belief of language

Abstract:

Language or linguistic ability has long been regarded as constitutive of belief, leading debates about the nature of doxastic phenomena to focus heavily on  their language related properties. Although more contemporary views rarely endorse such a close link between the two, discussions about belief remain strongly influenced by linguistically motivated considerations. Despite their intuitive appeal, retaining some of these inherited assumptions runs the risk not only of conflating distinguishing features of belief with those of language-mediated thought, but also of imposing unwarranted cognitive complexity requirements on doxastic states. This paper addresses the question of whether it is possible to coherently tackle the subject of belief while avoiding these pitfalls. By way of an affirmative answer, I propose an alternative perspective that takes belief’s relationship to truth as an uncontroversial starting point, drawing on pragmatist theories to develop a more substantial account of that relationship and motivate a way of conceptualizing belief that sidesteps some of the relevant issues. In what follows, I discuss several implications of this view, one of which is the reversal of belief’s position relative to language, such that instead of language being constitutive of belief, belief itself emerges as foundational for language based thought.

The seminar will be held online, to join the meeting, please use the
information below:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/92716044372...
Meeting ID: 927 1604 4372
Passcode: 697648
Seminar website (with a tentative list of meetings):

http://pts.edu.pl/seminarium-2024-2025-seminar-2024-2025...

The meeting opens at 4:45 pm, the talk starts at 5 pm.

The presentation shall be recorded.