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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/roads-to-reference/
SUMMARY:Roads to Reference
DESCRIPTION:Mario G&oacute\;mez Torrente.The course will take place on May 
 24\, 25\, 29 and 30The talks in this series are parts of a potential book 
 on the metasemantics of reference. In them I explore questions concerning 
 the issue of how the referents of a variety of expressions are fixed. The 
 ways reference is fixed are varied\, both across kinds of expressions and 
 across examples of one same kind of expression\; in some cases some kind o
 f descriptivism is reasonable\, while in others some kind of anti-descript
 ivism holds\, for example. However\, the talks (and the projected book) wi
 ll seek to draw some (more or less modest) patterns of unification. For ex
 ample: descriptivism is only reasonable in some localized cases where the 
 relevant description is relatively simple\, and in other cases some kind o
 f anti-descriptivist mechanism is at work\; reference to abstract kinds is
  feasible via ordinary mechanisms of reference fixing\, despite popular el
 iminativist considerations to the contrary coming from the philosophies of
  special scientific disciplines (mathematics\, chemistry\, biology...)\; e
 tc.
CATEGORIES:Extra talks
LOCATION:Former department of History of Philosophy\, room 4029
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