Ken has recently had a paper accepted for publication at Erkenntnis. The paper is titled “Truth and Falsity in Communication: Assertion, Denial, and Interpretation”.
Ben Winokur Defended his Dissertation!
Our member, Ben Winokur has successfully defended his dissertation titled “Knowing and Expressing Ourselves” at York University. Congratulations Ben!
Susanna Gave a Talk at TRUTH20|20
Our member Susanna Melkonian-Altshuler gave a talk titled “Directionality for Minimalism: A Piecemeal Approach” at TRUTH20|20 conference on 27 July 2020.
Drew publishes at Episteme
Drew has recently had a paper accepted for publication at Episteme. The paper is titled “Deep Disagreement, Hinge Commitment, and Intellectual Humility”.
Ryo Tanaka’s Talk: “Two-layer Theory of Knowledge of Meaning”
Ryo will give a talk on “Two-layer Theory of Knowledge of Meaning” at the conference 10th European Congress for Analytic Philosophy (Online) (https://ecap10.sites.uu.nl). Dates are August 24-28, 2020.
Summer (Mind & Language) Reading Group
ECOM Mind & Language Reading Group will be reading various paper in philosophy of language/mind. First meeting: Friday, June 12, 1pm. If you’d like to join, please contact Dorit Bar-On.
Drew will give a presentation at 2021 Easter APA
Drew’s paper has been accepted for presentation at the 2021 Easter APA. The title is “Proper Function and Ethical Judgment: Towards a Biosemantic Theory of Ethical Thought and Discourse”. Congratulations Drew!
Super Linguistics Colloquium: Yosef Prat
Next Super Linguistics colloquium speaker is Yosef Prat (Institut de Biologie, Université de Neuchâtel):
Title: Animals have no language, and humans are animals too
Date: Friday June 5th
Time: 16:15-18:00 Oslo time
Online meeting information (please do not post the meeting information on social media or other public forums):
Zoom Meeting ID: 641-6549-2283
Password: animals
Abstract: Do nonhuman animals have language? In humans, language is prominently manifested by vocal communication (i.e., speech). However, while vocal communication is ubiquitous across the animal kingdom, studies to date have found only elementary parallels to speech in nonhuman animals. These modest linguistic capacities of other species have fortified our belief that language is uniquely human. But have we really tested this uniqueness claim? By adopting methods that are commonly used in bioacoustics, I demonstrate that, surprisingly, a true impartial comparison between human speech and other animal vocalizations has not been conducted yet. Oddly, studying human speech using the same methods used to study other species vocalizations is actually expected to provide us with no evidence for human uniqueness.
All are very welcome!
Upcoming on Inquiry: Transparent Rules and Basic Self-Knowledge
Dorit Bar-On and Drew Johnson have completed a full-length critical study of Alex Byrne’s Transparency and Self-Knowledge (Oxford UP, 2018). The study “’Transparent Rules and Basic Self-Knowledge” will appear in the journal Inquiry.
Graduate Fellowships Announcement
In recognition of the additional challenges presented by the COVID19 crisis, ECOM has set aside a portion of its budget to help provide some summer support for several graduate student members working on ECOM-related projects.