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)
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