The special issue *The Principle of Charity in Language, Thought, and Interpretation* is out! I'm grateful to my co-editors and to the other contributors. link.springer.com/journal/1124...
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Introduction to the Special Issue on the Principle of Charity in Language, Thought, and Interpretation - Topoi
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Devin Curry@devinsanchezcurry.com · last yr."Nonfiction Stories about Minds", my narcissism-of-small-differences-fueled broadside against mental fictionalism, is now forthcoming in a special issue of Topoi on the principle of charity. philpapers.org/rec/CURNSA-2
The special issue *The Principle of Charity in Language, Thought, and Interpretation* is out! I'm grateful to my co-editors and to the other contributors. link.springer.com/journal/1124...
Topoi
Topoi's main assumption is that philosophy is a lively, provocative, delightful activity, which constantly challenges our received views, relentlessly ...
link.springer.com
This week I'll be presenting a paper that I have been thinking about for a very long time (with a title that might be my favourite so far): philos.humanities.mcmaster.ca/events/philo...
Philosophy Speaker Series: The Concern for What is True – Department of Philosophy | Faculty of Humanities | McMaster University
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The paperback edition of Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40 is now out: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40 | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Final version of a new paper on Davidson's triangulation argument and the requirement of an antecedent concern for what is true in any thinking and speaking creature. philpapers.org/rec/SULTCF
Olivia Sultanescu, The Concern for What is True - PhilPapers
The concept of truth always had a special significance within Donald Davidson’s view of language and thought. For instance, Davidson always maintained that a basic requirement for understanding anothe...
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I'll always remember Greg as a kind and generous colleague, committed to his students and to his work. I’ll share one memory here. In September 2023, Greg and I participated in a one-day workshop organized by a colleague. (1/x)
Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · last yr.Gregory Lavers, professor of philosophy at Concordia University, has died.
This is very sad news. An important figure in history of analytic philosophy and in logic and phil of mathematics.
Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · last yr.Gregory Lavers, professor of philosophy at Concordia University, has died.
Tomorrow it will be 70 years since George Enescu's death. Here is a beautiful performance of the first Romanian Rhapsody, conducted by the very talented Cristian Măcelaru. youtu.be/cuU5sbXYAJ0?...
Enescu - Rumänische Rhapsodie Nr. 1 | Cristian Măcelaru | WDR Sinfonieorchester
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"Dans sa décision, le juge a également souligné des incohérences dans la logique du gouvernement, suggérant que, si le ministre estime que les étudiants de l’extérieur de la province ne restent pas au Québec ... il est insensé de les obliger à maîtriser le français." www.ledevoir.com/societe/just...
Québec subit un revers sur la hausse des droits de scolarité des étudiants non québécois
La Cour supérieure invalide aussi l’obligation de franciser 80% de leur clientèle.
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"A thinker is very much like a draughtsman whose aim is to represent all the interrelations between things." (Wittgenstein)
Teaching Locke on language today. "Because words are many of them learned before the ideas are known for which they stand; therefore some, not only children, but men, speak several words no otherwise than parrots do, only because they have learned them, and have been accustomed to those sounds."
A stunningly beautiful piece by Paul Cézanne: La Neige fondue à l'Estaque--Les toits rouges.
A review of Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40, edited by Claudine Verheggen: brill.com/view/journal.... The review is also available here: philarchive.org/archive/TANCVE
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Today is devoted to Berkeley, who wrote: “I do not pin my faith on the sleeve of any great man. I act not out of prejudice and prepossession. I do not adhere to any opinion because it is old one, a received one, a fashionable one, or one that I have spent much time in study and cultivation of.”
I find this characterization to be true of all the philosophical questions I engaged with.
Harvey Lederman@harveylederman.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat is a question in philosophy where, the more you read and think, the deeper it seems?
“Humanities fields are underfunded in proportion both to other fields and in proportion to their contribution to the revenues that make up institutional funds.”
Akil N Awan@akilnawan.bsky.social · 2y agoThe state of humanities funding in the US is shocking. For every $1000 the feds spend on research, humanities receive a $1.30 🤯 Of the ~$54 billion in research the federal govt funds in U.S. higher ed, only $69 million goes to the humanities (=0.13% of fed total) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
G. E. Moore on B. Russell: "I do not know that Russell has ever owed to me anything except mistakes; whereas I have owed to his published works ideas which were certainly not mistakes and which I think very important."
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