{"id":549,"date":"2017-03-06T12:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T12:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philsoc.eu\/?p=549"},"modified":"2017-03-06T12:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T12:33:34","slug":"week-7-events-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euphilsoc.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/06\/week-7-events-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7 Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

PhilSoc’s Annual ‘Women and Other Minorities in the Humanities’ Conference<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

A reminder that on Friday, March 6th<\/strong>, Philsoc will host our annual ‘Women and other Minorities in the Humanities’ Conference<\/strong>. This year, the conference will be part of the Student Union’s ‘LiberatEd’ programme, which replaces last years’ GenderJam. The aim of the conference is to raise awareness of gender and minority biases, discrimination and underrepresentation in the humanities, academia and society. Check out our earlier post<\/a>, or the conference website<\/a>, for more details! The event is free<\/strong> and open to all students<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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Reading and Film Group<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
Monday, 6th March; 7 pm<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0The New Amphion, Teviot Row House\u00a0(Map<\/a>)<\/em><\/div>\n
\nReading: Penelope Maddy’s “The Philosophy of Logic<\/em><\/a>” [You can click on the paper’s name to open it.]<\/p>\n

(Next week’s reading: Alisa Bokulich’s ‘How Scientific Models can Explain<\/a>‘)<\/div>\n

\nDiscussion Group<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
Tuesday, 7th March<\/span><\/span>; 7 pm<\/span><\/span>, The New Amphion, Teviot Row House\u00a0(Map)<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
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Topic: Scepticisms<\/em><\/div>\n
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Academic Support Office Hours<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
Wednesday, 8th March<\/span><\/span>; 1:30 pm until 3:30\u00a0pm<\/span><\/span>; Dugald Stewart Building (DSB), Room 5.01.<\/em>\n<\/div>\n

Guest Lecture<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n

Thursday, 9th March<\/span><\/span>; 6.15 pm<\/span><\/span>, David Hume Tower, Lecture Theatre B.<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaker: Prof.\u00a0Ofra Magidor, University of Oxford<\/em><\/div>\n

\nTitle: “Co-predication and Property Inheritance<\/em>”
\n(Ofra\u00a0Magidor, paper co-authored with David Liebesman)<\/p>\n

Abstract:\u00a0‘<\/em>It is tempting to think that words like \u2018book\u2019 are ambiguous between a \u2018physical book\u2019 sense and an \u2018informational book sense\u2019: on the physical sense, three copies of War and Peace count as three books, and on the informational sense, as only one book. However this ambiguity hypothesis seems to face problems with cases of co-predication, namely sentences such as \u201cThree red books are informative\u201d. The problem arises from the claims that (i) \u2018red\u2019 only applies to physical books (ii) \u2018informative\u2019 only applies to informational books. (iii) we have only one occurrence of the word \u2018book\u2019 in the sentence.
\nCo-predication has been taken in the literature to be a deep problem that forces us into radical conclusions, most notably \u2013 the abandonment of referential semantics altogether. In this paper we argue that no such radical conclusions are warranted. We offer a novel account of co-predication which both denies that \u2018book\u2019 is ambiguous, and maintains that properties such as \u2018informative\u2019 can apply to physical books. We show how our account can address a wide variety of cases of co-predication and deal with some objections.’<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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