Our colloboration with Super Linguistics (UiO) is now called Making Meanings. (It was formerly RepreCent). Update your bookmarks to here!
Fixing Language reviewed at NDPR
Jon Cogburn reviews Herman Cappelen's Fixing Language here.
Announcing RepreCent
RepreCent is a collaboration between ConceptLab and linguists working on Super Linguistics at UiO. Information can be found here, and more is coming soon.
Call for Applications – ConceptLab Visiting Fellowships 2019/20
ConceptLab at the University of Oslo is extending a call for International and Norway-based candidates to apply for the position of Visiting Fellow for up to 3 months. The deadline for this new round of visiting fellowships applications for 2019/20 is 15 October 2019 Collaborative Fellowships The Collaborative Visiting Fellowship scheme for 2019-20 is open …
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ConceptLab Taking Stock
June 6, 2019, Georg Morgenstiernes Hus, GM 652 Schedule 10 AM. Herman Cappelen 10:20 AM. Øystein Linnebo 10:40 AM. Camilla Serck-Hannssen and Andreas Carlsson 11 AM. Rachel Sterken Break 11:30 AM. Josh Dever 11:50 AM. Andy Peet 12:10 PM. Vera Flocke 12:30 PM. Sam Roberts Lunch 2 PM. Peter Fritz 2:20 PM. Natalia Waights Hickman …
Fixing Language Review
Fixing Language is reviewed by Max Deutsch in Analysis here. An extract: Herman Cappelen’s Fixing Language is a fascinating book, chock-full of provocative arguments, on what is fast becoming a (the?) central topic in metaphilosophy: conceptual engineering. It is an important book – one I very highly recommend. It sets the stage for what will be …
Call for Applications – ConceptLab Visiting Fellowships 2018/19
ConceptLab at the University of Oslo is extending a call for International and Norway-based candidates to apply for the position of Visiting Fellow for up to 3 months. The deadline for this new round of visiting fellowships applications for 2018-19 is 31 October 2018 Collaborative Fellowships The Collaborative Visiting Fellowship scheme for 2018-19 is …
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Linguistic Meaning: Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ethics, CFA
The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, in collaboration with ConceptLab, Oslo. We invite submissions of long abstracts (1000-1500 words) for presentation at a conference on three facets of linguistic meaning: 1. Metaphysics of meaning and metasemantics 2. Epistemology of meaning and linguistic understanding 3. Ethical and ideological dimensions of meaning, and conceptual engineering. Submissions may …
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The Foundations Of Conceptual Engineering: Schedule
September 14th-15th, 2018 Friday 9:00-6:40, Saturday 9:30-5:30 New York University, Department of Philosophy 5 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003 Friday time speaker title 9.00 Welcome 9.10–10.10 David Chalmers What is Conceptual Engineering and What Should It Be? 10.15-11.15 Matti Eklund Radical Conceptual Engineering coffee 11.45-12.45 Sally Haslanger Concepts, Capacities and Social Functions …
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Call For Papers: Conceptual Engineering
Conceptual Engineering is concerned with assessing and evaluating our representational devices such as concepts and words and their meanings. Is our concept of truth, for example, defective, as Kevin Scharp argues? Should our concept of woman be improved, as Sally Haslanger thinks? Is it even possible to improve or jettison concepts as we see fit? …
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