Logic Matters 2008-04-19

Faculty colloquium

I do have doubts about the point of general faculty colloquia, meaning afternoons where we present papers to each other. People who share interests -- the logicians for example -- talk to each other anyway, and philosophy has got so professionalized that those who don't share the same interests are likely not to get much from a paper speaking to debates remote from home. (The old culture of amateurism in philosophy -- the idea we can all chip in to debates about anything -- is perhaps past its sell-by date.)But yesterday's effort here was tolerably entertaining. Adam Stewart-Wallace gave a paper about contextualism in semantics, with Alex Oliver commenting. That at least had the virtue of making me not feel in the least bit guilty that I'd not read Travis or Cappelan and Lepore (some of their arguments under discussion ...

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