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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Birgit Kellner\, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Birgit Kellner\, a Buddhologist and Tibetologist who since 2015 has served as the director of the Institute for Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia in Vienna\, part of the Austrian Academy of Science. Previously\, she was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg\, as well as a visiting professor at the University of California\, Berkeley. In 2010 she joined the University of Heidelberg as a professor of Buddhist Studies within the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context.” \nThis is an in-person event\, but those wishing to can also join the livestream. \nJoin Zoom Meeting:\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87295525023\nPasscode: 128515 \nTalk Title\nAllies\, Adversaries . . .  or Something Else? On Contextualism and Philosophical Engagement in the Study of Indian Buddhist Philosophy \nTalk Abstract\nThe study of Indian Buddhist philosophy in Europe\, Northern America\, as well as Japan has historically been dominated by a historico-philological approach. Scholars have pored over Sanskrit manuscripts that are frequently preserved only in fragments\, and painstakingly studied this evidence with the help of historical Chinese and Tibetan translations. They have struggled to establish relative chronologies in historical settings where external data is scarce; they have reconstructed important debates and traced the development of theories\, ideas and arguments. Implicit in such endeavours is a contextualism that considers “philosophy” as a historically situated and culturally contextualized enterprise. As the academic discipline of philosophy extends its gaze towards Asian traditions\, studies that philosophically engage with their ideas and explore them on the backdrop of contemporary (often analytic) philosophy have gained ground\, and at times issued challenges to historico-philological approaches and their contextualism. This talk will outline contextualism and philosophical engagement as two distinct approaches\, drawing on the field of Indian Buddhist philosophy in particular\, and it will advance an argument about how they are\, or should be\, related to each other. \nThe Global Philosophy Research Interest Group explores the benefits of drawing on diverse traditions of thought in approaching philosophical questions. These include novel insights into familiar problems\, new questions and research directions\, and fresh methodologies. We work to deprovincialize and decolonize all aspects of philosophy in the academy. The group currently has strengths in Sanskrit philosophy\, and Chinese philosophy\, Indian philosophy in English\, and classical Islamic philosophy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-birgit-kellner-austrian-academy-of-sciences/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Joint Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind & Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Interest Groups Talk (Justin Bledin\, Johns Hopkins)
DESCRIPTION:The Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Group and the Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Group welcome as guest speaker Justin Bledin\, an associate professor of Philosophy at John Hopkins University. His core research develops an informational view of logic and deductive inquiry. He also serves as the director of graduate studies in the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins. \nTalk Title\nNegative Individuals in a Semantics of Menus \nTalk Abstract\nI explore a nonstandard perspective on the logical foundations of English that shifts the focus from the truth value to what I will call the “menu.” On this view\, speakers demonstrate their logical competence by building or constructing alternative sets\, or menus\, of different items throughout the grammar—determiner phrases signify menus of entities\, while verb phrases signify menus of states\, and so forth. The logical connectives are ‘menu constructors’: conjunction is a collective operator for putting combinations of items on a menu\, disjunction contributes nondeterminism or choice between items on a menu\, while negation renders items ‘off menu’ by introducing negative individuals or states. The inclusion of negative individuals in my semantic theory allows for a non-Montagovian alternative to generalized quantifier theory on which determiner phrases are interpreted uniformly in a lower type as menus of entities rather than in a higher-order type as generalized quantifiers or property sets. The primary linguistic application of the theory pertains to the debate between the collective “non-Boolean” theory of conjunction based on plurality formation versus the traditional intersective “Boolean” theory based on logical conjunction. I demonstrate how a collective conjunction can be integrated with my semantics for negation to yield appropriate truthmaking conditions for sentences that involve coordinations with non-upward entailing determiner phrases\, which have previously been considered one of the toughest challenges for the collective theory.  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/lemm-interest-group-talk-justin-bledin-johns-hopkins/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
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