Duration: 2021 - 2024
Code: PID2020-119588GB-I00
Some representations are prima facie hybrids. By ‘representations’ we refer to activities such as linguistic speech acts, communicative acts in different media, the products of such activities, and the mental states or attitudes that these activities and their products typically express or aim to produce. Examples of hybrid representations include: thick ethical concepts, as introduced by Bernard Williams; pejoratives, or slurs, used to express contempt regarding a group of people, and also to classify someone in that group; affective attitudes, such as pain, aesthetic pleasure, anger, or, indeed, contempt, which dispose their subjects to behave in specific ways, but also represent the situations or conditions that prompt such dispositions to behavior; fictions which include assertions that also shape the character of the fictional world that the work presents for us to imagine. Now, even though examples like these – which we have investigated in previous projects – suggest that the category of hybrid representations may be widespread among representational or intentional states, philosophers have in general focused on cognitively, straightforwardly truth-conditional or thetic representations, those with a mind-to-world direction of fit; some have even tried to reduce all representations to them. Our purpose in this project is to explore the phenomenon of hybrid representations more systematically, so that we might address the following three questions: (a) How are hybrid representations integrated? (b) Does a proper account of hybrid representations require disentangling them? (c) If not, what does this tell us about the nature of representations in general?
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
During the duration of the project, we will run a main reading group focusing on the central themes of the project. We meet every other week.
During the academic year of 2022-2023, we read Mathieu Queloz's book on the pragmatic geneology of ideas in the first semester, and will read a diversity of texts on dogwhistles and propaganda, on the nature of desires and their expression, and on conceptual engineering and metalinguistic disputes. Information here.
This is the card for the reading group during the academic year 2021-2022: available here.
At the same time, the project also hosts another reading group specifically on one of the work packages about fiction and philosophy of film. More information is available on this link.
ANNOUNCEMENT
We recently announced a call for PhD fellowships under our project, funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science, Innovation and Universitiies. We are happy to announce that the candidate awarded the fellowship is Markel Kortabarria, a graduate student member of LOGOS and working under the supervision of Esa Díaz-León and Manuel García-Carpintero.
Teresa Marques. 2023
forthcoming in Filosofia del Lenguaje, edited by Ignacio Vicario for SEFA collection. Madrid: Tecnos.
Teresa Marques, Manuel García-Carpintero. 2023
forthcoming in Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology, edited by Stephanie Collins, Brian Epstein, Sally Haslanger, and Hans Bernhard Schmidt for Oxford University Press.
Filippo Contesi. 2022
in M. Ryynänen et al. (eds), Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral, Routledge [open access]
Filippo Contesi, Louise Chapman, Constantine Sandis. 2022
Institute of Art and Ideas News, 2022 [Chinese translation]
Filippo Contesi. 2022
Journal of Philosophy of Emotion [open access]
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2022
British Journal of Aesthetics, DOI: 10.1093/aesthj/ayab066
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2022
Mind and Language, DOI: 10.1111/mila.12412
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2022
Linguistics & Philosophy, forthcoming
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2022
E. Terrone & V. Tripodi (eds.), Being and Value in Technology, Palgrave Macmillan, 187-217
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2022
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 80 (1), 83-94
Sophie Keeling. 2022
Sophie Keeling. 2022
Teresa Marques. 2022
Journal of Applied Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12608
Neri Marsili. 2022
Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)
Neri Marsili, Guido Lohr. 2022
The Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming)
Filippo Contesi, Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen. 2021
American Philosophical Association Blog [open access]
Filippo Contesi. 2021
in A. Giovannelli (ed.), Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers, Bloomsbury
Filippo Contesi, Louise Chapman, Constantine Sandis. 2021
The Philosophers’ Magazine 95
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2021
Inquiry DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2021.1990795
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2021
Review of Philosophy and Psychology, DOI: 10.1007/s13164-021-00576-z
Manuel García-Carpintero. 2021
Emar Maier and Andreas Stokke (eds.): The Language of Fiction, Oxford: OUP, 2021, 131-152
Sophie Keeling. 2021
Teresa Marques. 2021
Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00288-1
Teresa Marques, Chiara Valentini. 2021
Collective Action, Philosophy and Law
Routledge
Teresa Marques. 2021
Relativismo y retractaciones
David Pérez Chico (ed.), Cuestiones de Filosofía del Lenguaje: Pragmática, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza.
Teresa Marques. 2021
Illocutionary force and attitude mode in normative disputes
Metaphilosophy, 52: 449– 465. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12488
Neri Marsili. 2021
Philosophical Studies