TFAP
Tokyo Forum For Analytic Philosophy
Program
Shared Thought and Communication
Speaker: Rachel Goodman
From: University of Illinois Chicago
URL: https://phil.uic.edu/profiles/goodman-rachel/
Abstract: On a Fregean view of communication, communication requires shared sense. On a Russellian view of communication, it requires only shared reference and fulfillment of what I will call transactional requirements. My first aim is to illustrate that the Fregean view is dialectically unstable: the Fregean must explain some failures of communication in terms of difference of sense, and others in terms of failure to meet transactional requirements, without an explanation of the difference. However, even among those who shy away from the Fregean view, hesitation to embrace a Russellian view is common, so my second aim is to ask whether this is justified. I do so by clarifying the relationship between Russellianism about communication and relationism about communication—a view which provides a third option. I’ll suggest a way to adjudicate between these views by clarifying a commitment shared by the Fregean and the relationist, but rejected by the Russellian. If this commitment is justified, then given the instability of the Fregean view, relationism is preferable. However, the upshot may rather be that traditional dissatisfaction with a Russellian view of communication is undermotivated.
Proximate and Ultimate Causation
Speaker: Yafeng Shan
From: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
URL: https://www.shanyafeng.com/
Abstract: It has been over 60 years since Ernst Mayr famously argued for the distinction between proximate and ultimate causes in biology. In the following decades, Mayr’s proximate-ultimate distinction was well received within evolutionary biology and widely regarded as a major contribution to the philosophy of biology. Despite its enormous influence, there has been a persistent controversy on the distinction. It has been argued that the distinction is untenable. In addition, there have been complaints about the pragmatic value of the distinction in biological research. Some even suggest that the distinction should better be abandoned. In contrast, Mayr had consistently maintained the significance of the proximate-ultimate distinction in biology. There are also other attempts to defend the distinction. The talk will examine the debate by taking an integrated History and Philosophy of Science approach and argue for a functional approach to causal concepts in scientific practice.
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Speaker: Emil Andersson
From: Uppsala University
URL: https://www.emilandersson.org/
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A Formalist Approach to Aesthetic Value
Speaker: Kiyohiro Sen
From: University of Tokyo
URL: https://www.senkiyohiro.com/home2
Abstract: This talk proposes to approach aesthetic demerits and merits in terms of formal defects and unity. I will first point out the problems with a popular view of aesthetic value, aesthetic empiricism, and then show that these problems lead us to a kind of formalist theory of aesthetic value. I will develop and defend the position I call Framed Formalism: aesthetic badness or goodness as a kind is a matter of whether an item is a formally defective member or a formally unified member with respect to that kind. Framed Formalism has an important implication for aesthetic normativity. Aesthetic normativity is not primarily a matter of what an agent aesthetically ought to do, but of how an item aesthetically ought to be.
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Speaker: Maximilian Tegtmeier
From: National University of Singapore
URL: https://philpeople.org/profiles/maximilian-tegtmeyer
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Speaker: Krys Dolega
From: Center for Cognition and Neurosciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles
URL: https://www.krysdolega.xyz/about/
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Speaker: Marvin Backes
From: University of Cologne
URL: https://marvinbackes.com/
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Speaker: David Villena
From: University of Hong Kong
URL: https://www.davidvillena.com/index.html
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Speaker: Giada Fratantonio
From: Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen
URL: http://giada-fratantonio.weebly.com/
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Speaker: Joshua Rowan Thorpe
From: Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen
URL: https://www.joshuarowanthorpe.com/
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Speaker: Joel van Fossen
From: Hosei University
URL: http://gis.hosei.ac.jp/cms/?professor=joel-van-fossen
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Speaker: Heng Ying
From: University of Hong Kong
URL: https://philpeople.org/profiles/heng-ying
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