LAST EVENTS
"What does knowledge consist in for Plato, and which is its relation with language?"
Seminar on Language and Communication
In my talk I will try to shed light on the way in which Plato understands knowledge and language, in order to focus on their relation. To do so, I will first consider what knowledge consists in for Plato, showing that it is primarily understood as accordance between reality and thought or propositions. Then, I will present dialectic as the correct method to obtain knowledge. Dialectic involves a twofold procedure, namely the gathering of the multiple and scattered realities that share a common and unique essence and the understanding how a single reality can appear in multiple ways. The above makes clear that for Plato obtaining knowledge lies in the correct classification of reality in different genres and species. That means that, for Plato, language is an epistemologically important tool.
Jonathan Lavilla
ILCLI
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The research group on Language, Action, and Thought ---at the Institute of Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI)--- mostly focuses on the Philosophy of Language and Mind as well as on the Philosophy of Action. Most of its members are philosophers but it also includes linguists, psychologists and logicians.
An important part of our research has evolved around Critical Pragmatics, a theory created and developed by some of us, with applications to the study of linguistic communication, and important assumptions and implications about thought and action.
During the last decade, we have received several grants from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the Basque Government and the Government of Spain.
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