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Seminar on Language and Communication

Thom Scott-Philips (ILCLI - Ikerbasque - UPV/EHU):
"Expectation loops"



21 September 2023

15:00
HEFA I, Batzar Aretoa

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Gogoa. New book review, online first

Jon Mentxakatorre:
"Window to the West: Culture and Environment in the Scottish
Gàidhealtachd" (by Meg Bateman and John Purser)

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Tarzanen Arrastoan

We are pleased to invite you to watch the documentary "Tarzanen arrastoan", by Josu Acosta and Kepa Korta. The documentary, which dives into the life of Jesus Mari Larrazabal, founder of ILCLI, will be aired on Hamaika TB

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Premiere: June 30, 2023, at 22:00 (UTC/GMT +1)
Repetitions: July 1 and 2, 2023, at 20:00 (UTC/GMT +1)

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Gogoa

Gogoa 23 has been published






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LAST EVENTS

LAST EVENTS

Quine’s Pyrrhic victory. A defense of reference and modality

Seminar on Language and Communication

Motivated by a discussion held in 1986, at Stanford, by Quine, Davidson, Dreben and Føllesdal, this talk begins with a short historical account of modality, focusing on Quine’s challenges to modal logic and Føllesdal’s rebuttal.

In a series of well-known papers, Quine launched a strong attack against modal logic. For decades, his views convinced many against modality and modal logic. Quine’s victory seems to have been a Pyrrhic one, however. The notion of necessity was not abandoned and possible worlds semantics is ubiquitous, not only in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of logic, but in virtually all branches of philosophy. Necessity and possibility have gone from untenable bits of metaphysics to clear concepts in terms of which most of everything else is to be understood.

María de Ponte

(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. 

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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.

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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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