[SydPhil] Philosophy Seminar | Friday 11 April | 12:30 - 2:00pm | Morven Brown 310, UNSW

[Melissa Merritt]

Michael Devitt's talk is Friday 11 April, details below.
I incorrectly advertised the date previously on SydPhil -- my sincere apologies.
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Philosophy Seminar


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Friday 11 April | 12:30 - 2:00pm | Morven Brown 310, UNSW



You are invited to a Philosophy Seminar from the School of Humanities & Languages, a presentation by Michael Devitt, City University of New York

“Testing Theories of Reference”

How should we test theories of reference? The received view is that we should test them against referential intuitions. How could this be acceptable? We should not go along with the common philosophical view that these intuitions are a priori. Philosophers might follow linguists in thinking that linguistic intuitions are “the voice” of our linguistic competence. But this view is false. Rather than relying solely on the indirect evidence of intuitions, theories of reference need direct evidence from linguistic usage. The method of elicited production seems a promising way to gather this evidence. But this turns out to be more difficult than one might expect, as a recent experiment revealed. The paper briefly explores the main problem, that of implicit scare quotes.


Michael Devitt is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.  He has published widely in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and epistemology.  His many books include, most recently, Putting Metaphysics First (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Ignorance of Language (2006).


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Date: 11 April, 2014
Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location: Morven Brown 310 UNSW Kensington
Campus map: view<http://www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/Maps/maps.html>.
Registration: Not Required
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Contact:
e: m.merritt at unsw.edu.au<mailto:m.merritt at unsw.edu.au>
t: (02) 9385 2764




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