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long words bother me long words bother me friday march 21 2008 migrating i have decided to migrate long words bother me to wordpress it is now available with a shiny new look at a shiny new address http longwordsbotherme wordpress com please update your bookmarks posted by carrie jenkins at 9 56 am 4 comments sunday march 16 2008 manchester photos updated apologies the links i had up here before required facebook membership the new ones should be generally accessible a few photos from the very enjoyable manchester philosophy of maths conference are now available i also found a few more photos from geneva on my camera which i ve added to the end of my geneva album posted by carrie jenkins at 6 34 pm no comments friday march 14 2008 manchester update i have slightly updated these slides following the presentation unexpectedly i find myself lined up to give a talk at this weekend s conference metaphysics and epistemology issues in the philosophy of mathematics in manchester i m filling in for someone who could not attend despite the initial panic induced by hearing myself agree to prepare a talk from scratch in about a week i am very glad i ve signed up for this as it s encouraged me to put together some stuff from my book that i haven t presented in a stand alone way before but actually makes quite a nice package i hope i ll still think that by sunday the basic idea is to trace through some of the connections that empiricists of different stripes have postulated between meaningfulness and confirmation i use ayer and quine as stalking horses and try to show that even if we grant them that there should be a tight connection between the two it would be preferable to take the units of both meaning and confirmation to include concept sized chunks rather than just proposition sized ayer or theory sized quine chunks in case it s not immediately obvious what that has to do with the philosophy of mathematics i ll be arguing that one of the benefits of taking a concept oriented approach is that this sits with a lovelier epistemology of arithmetic than ayer s or quine s i ve put the slides online in pdf format for interested parties if you re going to be at the conference don t read the slides as they contain spoilers everyone else feel free to click through it s worth it for slides 25 and 26 alone posted by carrie jenkins at 3 25 pm 1 comment thursday february 28 2008 kripkenstein s mules i ve been thinking recently about the possible fruitfulness of comparing cleverly disguised mule worries cdmw in epistemology with kripkensteinian meaning underdetermination worries kmuw i think it is helpful in understanding cdmw to think about two kinds of questions 1 why does s believe those animals are zebras rather than lions 2 why does s believe those animals are zebras rather than cleverly disguised mules because they are zebras looks like a good answer to questions like 1 and a bad answer to questions like 2 for a contextualist explanationist about knowledge like myself this suggests that in contexts where the question is s s belief explained by the fact believed amounts to something like 1 s knows they are zebras looks good and in contexts where that question amounts to something like 2 s knows they are zebras looks bad what i find suggestive in trying to understand kmuw is an analogy with the questions 1 why does s use plus for addition rather than subtraction 2 why does s plus for addition rather than quaddition because of the dubbing or otherwise word defining activities of s s linguistic predecessors looks like a good answer to questions like 1 and a bad answer to questions like 2 more on this topic will follow posted by carrie jenkins at 2 07 pm no comments tuesday february 26 2008 michigan it s now settled that i will be spending september to december as a visiting associate professor in the excellent philosophy department at the university of michigan ann arbor daniel will be there too as a visiting professor it s very exciting to look forward to hanging out with an fantastic bunch of philosophers including my erstwhile canberra colleague andy egan posted by carrie jenkins at 1 21 pm 2 comments more from geneva mark jago has a blog post with pictures on the recent eidos conference in geneva posted by carrie jenkins at 10 21 am no comments friday february 22 2008 new web pages v day podcast following a small web crisis in the department i have made myself a new set of web pages using google pages this was fun while the editor itself is very basic but also therefore very easy and doesn t allow you to do much a workaround when you want to get other kinds of content or formatting into your page is to make another page and then cut and paste from the page not the html into the google page editor this seems to have worked for everything i ve needed so far in other news the nottingham university podcasts folks recently made a valentine s day podcast on my work in the philosophy of flirting posted by carrie jenkins at 3 35 pm no comments sunday february 17 2008 geneva for the last few days i ve been attending the eidos because conference and for the few days before that i was attending the eidos pro doc graduate workshop all in i ve given 6 75 hours of talks during the last six days and participated in 19 further sessions this has been a real marathon some photos are available which illustrate some of the effects highlights have included kit fine arguing that vagueness is a kind of collective phenomenon like unevenness then using this idea to motivate a logic where things of the form pv p qv q are true but everything of the form pv p is true and david liggins laying into the idea that standard maximalist necessitarian truthmaker theory can be motivated by thinking that truth requires metaphysical explanation posted by carrie jenkins at 3 37 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom my home page stats for long words bother me blog archive 2008 11 march 3 migrating manchester photos 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