Teresa is presenting her paper:
“Pejoratives: How the analogy with fiction breaks down”
at the workshop The Roots of Fiction: Possibilities and Imagination, taking place at the University of Macau, December 5-6 2015.
6th session of research seminar Collective Intentionality
The sixth session of the research seminar on Collective Intentionality takes place on December 1st, at 14:00h, on room 40.043, at the Ciutadella Campus.
This week we’re reading
Kutz, Christopher (2000) Acting Together, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. LXI, No. 1, July 2000
There is no session on December 8th.
All welcome for December 1st!
5th Session Seminar Collective Intentionality
The fifth session of the research seminar on Collective Intentionality takes place on 24 November, at 14h in room 40.043. The article for this session is
Gold & Sugden’s “Collective Intentions and Team Agency”, Journal of Philosophy, 104(3), 109–137
All welcome!
4th Session Seminar Collective Intentionality
The 4th session of the research seminar on Collective Intentionality takes place November 10, at 14:00, on room 40.043 of the Roger de Llúria building, Campus de la Ciutadella.
This week we’re reading and discussing Margaret Gilbert’s 2003 paper:
Gilbert, M. (2003). The structure of social atom: Joint Commitment as the Foundation of Human Social Behavior. In F. Schmitt (Ed.), Socializing Metaphysics: The Nature of Social Reality (Rowman & Littlefiled Publishers, pp. 39–65). Oxford.
All welcome!
Flash Philosophy!
This year, Teresa is participating again in the philosophy festival Barcelona Pensa, at the Flash Philosophy event. In a pub, nonetheless. Sergi Oms and Teresa will be discussing some puzzles for vagueness in the Law.
3rd session – Collective Intentionality
The 3rd session of the Research Seminar on Collective Intentionality is taking place on November 3rd, 2015, at 14:00 on room 40.043, to read and discuss Michael Bratman’s “Shared Intention”.
All welcome!
Pervasive Context
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Teresa was at the Conference Pervasive Context — The Problems and the Solutions, that took place in Beijing, China, on 24-25 October 2015, where she presented her work-in-progress paper “Falsity & Retraction: New experimental data on epistemic modals”.
2nd session of research seminar on Collective Intentionality
The second session of the research seminar on Collective Intentionality will focus on
Margaret Gilbert‘s (1990). “Walking Together: A Paradigmatic Social Phenomenon”. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 15(1), 1–14.
The session takes place on 27 October, at 14:00 on room 40.043 at the Campus de la Ciutadella.
All welcome!
1st Session of seminar on Collective Intentionality
The first session of the research seminar on Collective Intentionality takes place on October 6, 2015, at 14:00, in room room 40149 of the Roger de Llúria building at Campus de la Ciutadella, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
We will read and discuss:
John Searle (1990). Collective Intentions and Actions, Intentions in Communication, ed. P. Cohen, ]. Morgan, and M. E. Pollack (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990).
All welcome!
10th NOMOS Meeting, Berlin
The 10th NOMOS Network meeting took place at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 28 and 29 September 2015. The meeting focused on Kasper Lipper-Rasmussen’s book Born Free and Equal (OUP). Teresa presented her “Pejoratives & Oughts” paper.
Abstract:
It is prima facie plausible to think of pejoratives and slurs as a way to use language to discriminate against particular groups of people – those that the slurs and pejoratives refer to. This paper has two related goals. First, it uses pejorative discourse to illustrate Lippert-Rasmussen’s account of the discrimination of socially salient groups. Secondly, it assesses a theory of pejorative discourse, Hom & May’s, in particular their claim that pejoratives express complex socially constructed, negative properties determined in virtue of standing in causal external relations to racist institutions. They claim that pejoratives have null extensions, like fictional terms, and that uses of pejoratives are false. I argue that a canonical semantic account of deontic modals, together with the postulated causal external relation to social structures and ideologies, entails that pejoratives don’t have null extensions. Moreover, even if they had null extensions and declarative sentences containing them were false, the resulting view of how pejoratives discriminate should be assessed against Lippert-Rasmussen’s objection to objective meaning and mental state accounts of the wrongfulness of discrimination.