Kolejny odczyt w ramach seminarium Znak-Język-Rzeczywistość (23 stycznia 2025): Talk About Luck! (Anti-)Fregeanism and Loar’s Puzzle for Communication
Kolejny odczyt seminarium ZJR odbędzie się:
Czwartek, 12 grudnia 2024, 17.00
Valentine Simpson
(University of Valencia)
wygłosi odczyt:
Talk About Luck! (Anti-)Fregeanism and Loar’s Puzzle for Communication
Abstrakt:
In the backdrop of a long-standing debate between Direct Reference theorists and sense-based theorists over the right construal of the semantics of language, Loar (1976) presented a case which was meant to score a victory for the Fregeans. Recently, this conclusion has met resistance. As some Russellians have pointed out, they too have a stake in the discussion. A knowledge-based, neo-Russellian approach to communication has recently emerged as a strong contender against the Fregean (Goodman, forthcoming; Onofri, 2019; Peet, 2019), claiming that the significance of Loar’s puzzle isdue to an element of luck(as in Gettier cases), concluding that communication must be modelled on knowledge. The aim of my talk is to critically assess the viability of this anti-Fregean approach, byshowing that the epistemic Russellians’ knowledge-based view faces a problem. By attending to an interesting case devised by Dickie (forthcoming), I show that there can be cases of lucky linguistic understanding. If correct, this shows that drawing an epistemic condition on communicative success from Loar cases is simply unwarranted. The general upshot of my discussion is that the Fregean approach to communication is still the stronger contender as a general view of communication
Seminarium odbędzie się online, aby dołączyć do spotkania, prosimy o
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Join Zoom Meeting
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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 23rd of rJanuary 2025, 17.00, Central European Time
Valentine Simpson
(University of Valencia)
will deliver a talk:
Talk About Luck! (Anti-)Fregeanism and Loar’s Puzzle for Communication
Abstract:
In the backdrop of a long-standing debate between Direct Reference theorists and sense-based theorists over the right construal of the semantics of language, Loar (1976) presented a case which was meant to score a victory for the Fregeans. Recently, this conclusion has met resistance. As some Russellians have pointed out,
they too have a stake in the discussion. A knowledge-based, neo-Russellian approach to communication has recently emerged as a strong contender against the Fregean (Goodman,
forthcoming; Onofri, 2019; Peet, 2019), claiming that the significance of Loar’s puzzle is due to an element of luck (as in Gettier cases), concluding that communication must be modelled on knowledge. The aim of my talk is to critically assess the viability of this anti-Fregean approach, by showing that the epistemic Russellians’ knowledge-based view faces a problem. By attending to an interesting case devised by Dickie (forthcoming), I show that there can be cases of lucky linguistic understanding. If correct, this shows that drawing an epistemic condition on communicative success from Loar cases is simply unwarranted. The general upshot of my discussion is that the Fregean approach to communication is still the stronger contender as a general view of communication
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.