Events
Here you can find information about various events that are meant to promote interaction and collaboration among philosophers in the greater Seoul area. A series of workshops is specifically designated for graduate students to present their work.
Graduate Student Workshop
Date: Friday January 27, 2012.
Schedule:
| 14.00 - 14.30 | Coffee | |
| 14.30 - 16.00 | Keehyuk Nahm (Sungkyunkwan University): On A Nihilistic Approach Towards Physical Objects |
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| 16.00 - 16.30 | Break | |
| 16.30 - 18.00 | Junyeol Kim (Seoul National University): The Tension between Stanley's Semantic theory and His Theory of Knowledge. |
Title: On A Nihilistic Approach Towards Physical Objects.
Speaker: Keehyuk Nahm (Sungkyunkwan University).
Abstract: Any position for a given issue that is nihilistic is one that denies the subject matter itself exists. For instance, nihilism on personal identity would be a position that says we do not exist, while nihilism on physical objects would be one that says physical objects do not exist. In this manner, any kind of nihilism is an ontological claim. For apparent reasons, it is usually among the most extreme of its rival theories of that issue. And because of this tendency, it is commonly considered to be a very absurd position. In this paper, I will argue that its main motivations are not as absurd as they seem. In doing so, I will look into how the problem of identity across time is applied to physical objects. And I will argue that, regardless of any theory of identity, the way we individuate objects are at the center of the problem.
Title: The Tension between Stanley's Semantic theory and His Theory of Knowledge.
Speaker: Junyeol Kim.
Abstract: In this presentation, I will show that there is a serious tension between Jason Stanley's semantic theory and his theory of knowledge. In his semantic theory, he strongly argues that a successful semantic theory should properly explain the phenomenology of competent speakers. However, his interest-relative invariantism about knowledge definitely does not conform to the phenomenology revealed by our uses of the verb "know". This seems to be a serious threat to his theory of knowledge. However, astonishingly, he accepts that his theory of knowledge is more or less isolated from our phenomenology. He tries to evade the threat by saying that his theory is the metaphysical one, not the semantic one. However, it is very doubtful whether this kind of distinction can work. Considering his truth-conditional semantics, it is rather natural for him to say that a semantic theory has metaphysical entailments while a metaphysical theory entails semantic consequences, and so, his theory of knowledge also entails semantic entailments. If so, it is clear that there is a serious tension between his theory of knowledge and meaning. In his theory of meaning, he asserts that semantic theory must conform to our phenomenology, while, in his theory of knowledge, he allows his theory to be isolated from it.
Graduate Conference
Date: May 5-6, 2012.
Venue: Yonsei University.
Keynote speakers: Prof. Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut, Storrs) and Prof. Takashi Yagisawa (California State University, Northridge).
Conference page -- Conference flyer
Past events
For more information on past events go here.