Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy
Philosophy of Hybrid Representations (PHR)
This year, the reading group of the project The Philosophy of Hybrid Representations, devotes the first semester of 2022-2023 to reading Mathieu Queloz's book The Practical Origin of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse Engineering, OUP. The book is available open access here
In the second semester od 2022-2023, we will read papers on diverse topics:
- Conceptual engineering and metalinguistic negotiations (Schroeter, Schroeter and Toh)
- Dogwhistles and propaganda (Lo Guercio and Caso; Khoo; Saul, Torices; Santana)
- The nature of desires and their expression (tbd)
The sessions are online via zoom. Get in touch with Teresa Marques if you want to join. We meet on Fridays at 12:00 CET, every other week.
First session: 28 October 2022, reading chapters 1, "Why we came to think as we do", and 2, "The benefits of reverse engineering"
Second session: 4 November 2022, reading chapter 3, "When genealogy is called for"
Third session: 18 November 2022, reading chapter 6, "Loosening the need-concept tie" (on Craig and knowledge)
Convenor:
Sessions
Fourth Session, "The uses of intrinsic value" (on Bernard Williams and truthfulness)
Mathieu Queloz, The practical origin of ideas, chapter 7
02 December 2022
12:00, Via zoom
Fifth Session: Metalinguistic negotiations
Laura Schroeter, François Schroeter and Kevin Toh, "The Limits of Metalinguistic Negotiation: The Role of Shared Meanings in Normative Debate", Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
The authors will join us for the discussion, Laura and François from Melbourne, and Kevin from London!
26 January 2023
12:00, Via zoom
Sixth session: An account of overt intentional dogwhistles
Lo Guercio, Nicolás & Caso, Ramiro (2022). "An account of overt intentional dogwhistling". Synthese 200 (3):1-32
Nicolás Lo Guercio joins us from Buenos Aires!
10 February 2023
12:00, Online via zoom
Seventh section: Code words in political discourse
Khoo, J. (2017) "Code words in political discourse", Philosophical Topics
vol. 45, no. 2, Fall 201724 February 2023
12:00, Online via zoom
Eight session: On deniability
Zakkou, J., and A. Dinges (2022), "On deniability", Mind. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzac056
Alex Dinges joins us for the online discussion
03 March 2023
12:00, Online via zoom
Ninth session: discussion of Dinges and Zakkou, On Deniability
Bianca Cepollaro, Dan López de Sa, and Andrés Soria, (ms): On Deniability: A Reply to Dinges & Zakkou (2023)
Bianca Cepollaro will join us online for the discussion
17 March 2023
12:00, Online via zoom
Tenth session: Camp on insinuation
Elisabeth Camp,(2018) "Insinuation, common ground, and the conversational record", in New Work on Speech Acts, edited by Daniel Fogal. Oxford University Press.
14 April 2023
12:00, Online via zoom
Eleventh session: Berstler on Grice and cooperativeness
Sam Berstler (ms) "The Grice is Right: Or, How to Solve Grice’s Non-Cooperation Problem" (draft 27.Feb.23)
Sam Berstler will be joining us all the way from Boston, and thus we will have the reading group a bit later than usual. We start at 14:00 Barcelona time, 8:00 Boston time.
28 April 2023
14:00, Online via zoom
Twelft session: Camp and "just kidding"
Elisabeth Camp, 2022. "Just saying, just kidding: Liability for accountability-avoiding speech in ordinary conversation, politics and law" in From Lying to Perjury: Linguistic and Legal Perspectives on Lies and Other Falsehoods, edited by Laurence R. Horn, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
26 May 2023
12:00, Via zoom
