Kolejny odczyt w ramach seminarium Znak-Język-Rzeczywistość/SLR Seminar (27 II 2025): Communication, Similarity, and Recalcitrant Underdetermination

Kolejny odczyt seminarium ZJR odbędzie się:

Czwartek, 27 lutego 2025, 17.00

Victor Verdejo
(Pompeu Fabra University)

wygłosi odczyt:

CommunicatioCommunication, Similarity, and Recalcitrant Underdetermination
(współautor: Valantine Simpson)

Abstrakt:

It is increasingly acknowledged that, in a wide range of cases, speakers of a language cannot determine the proposition expressed by the utterance of a sentence in a particular context. Underdetermination has been invoked to cast doubt on a standard picture of communication and testimonial knowledge. While there are epistemic and metaphysical versions of the problem, in this paper, we argue that the most pressing challenge is to show how communication actually often succeeds despite its recalcitrant character.
Against a dominant convergentist strategy, we develop the suggestion that communication succeeds in the face of recalcitrant underdetermination when determinable propositional types bring together divergent but similar determinate propositions.

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 27th of February 2025, 17.00, Central European Time

Victor Verdejo
(Pompeu Fabra University)

will deliver a talk:

Communication, Similarity, and Recalcitrant Underdetermination
(joint work with Valantine Simpson)

Abstract:

It is increasingly acknowledged that, in a wide range of cases, speakers of a language cannot determine the proposition expressed by the utterance of a sentence in a particular context. Underdetermination has been invoked to cast doubt on a standard picture of communication and testimonial knowledge. While there are epistemic and metaphysical versions of the problem, in this paper, we argue that the most pressing challenge is to show how communication actually often succeeds despite its recalcitrant character.
Against a dominant convergentist strategy, we develop the suggestion that communication succeeds in the face of recalcitrant underdetermination when determinable propositional types bring together divergent but similar determinate propositions.

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.