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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL: The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay
DESCRIPTION:The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay is awarded for excellence in philosophy. Students enrolled in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies undergraduate courses are eligible to enter an essay for the annual award. \nStudents are invited to submit an academic essay written as an assignment in one of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies’ undergraduate courses this academic year (AY2023/2024). Essays of any length are acceptable. The organisers reserve the right not to award the prize if essays are not of sufficiently high standard. \nPlease submit essays by e-mail with the subject line ‘Submission for the Mario Echano Prize’ to Maggie Wong at MaggieWong@um.edu.mo. Attach your essay to the message as a Microsoft Word document (other formats will not be accepted). Please give your name\, student number\, and the name of the course for which you wrote the essay\, on the first page of the essay. The deadline for submission is Friday\, 31st May 2024. \nWe look forward to your submissions.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-the-mario-echano-prize-for-the-best-undergraduate-philosophy-essay-3/
CATEGORIES:Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Problem of Contingency for the Descriptivist Account of Semantic Deference” by Dr. Ryo Tanaka\, University of Tokyo\, Japan
DESCRIPTION:Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/98680905452 \nPassword: 382583 \n  \nAbstract \nSemantic deference is a phenomenon where the referents of linguistic expressions in an ordinary speaker’s vocabulary are determined by the use of the expressions by a group of experts about the relevant subject matter. For example\, the meanings of terms such as ‘elm\,’ ‘beech’ and so on for an ordinary speaker are partly determined by what botanists in her community say about the relevant tree kinds. Traditionally\, the phenomenon has been taken to motivate semantic externalism\, according to which meanings “ain’t in the heads” (Putnam 1975) of individual speakers. Those who challenge this tradition\, however\, attempt to provide a fully internalist-descriptivist account of semantic deference. On the internalist proposal\, semantic deference is a matter of each individual’s cognitively associating a description such as [whatever thing that the experts are talking about when they use ‘C’] with the referential expression ‘C’ (Jackson 1998). In this paper\, I argue that the internalist-descriptivist account faces the problem of contingency: different speakers can\, problematically\, come to mean different things by using the same term\, by identifying different groups as meaning-determining “experts.” To respond to this problem\, one needs to invoke communal linguistic norms that dictate which group of experts speakers should defer to\, given the subject matter (cf. Ball 2020). I argue that implementing this strategy requires adopting some form of semantic externalism in the end. \n  \nBio \nDr. Ryo Tanaka is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy based at the University of Tokyo\, Japan (JSPS postdoctoral fellow\, History and Philosophy of Science Lab). He specializes in philosophy of language in the analytic tradition and also works in related areas such as philosophy of mind\, ethics\, as well as the Western early modern treatment of these topics. He is currently working on the research project entitled\, “Moral obligation to explicate the semantic rules of one’s language.” He has published his work in journals such as The Southern Journal of Philosophy\, Contemporary and Applied Philosophy (Japanese). \n 
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-lecture-series-the-problem-of-contingency-for-the-descriptivist-account-of-semantic-deference-by-dr-ryo-tanaka-university-of-tokyo-japan/
LOCATION:By Zoom
CATEGORIES:Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231113T133000
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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Art as Inquiry: The Path of Chinese Lyric Aesthetic” by Prof. Danielle Macbeth\, Haverford College\, U.S.A.
DESCRIPTION:Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/99485044779 \nPassword: 455548 \n  \nAbstract \nBeginning with music\, through the emergence of lyric poetry\, and culminating in the literati brush-and-ink landscapes of the Southern Song\, something happened\, something Kao Yu-kung calls Chinese lyric aesthetic. What is at issue for us here is the nature and character of this happening. I begin with a characterization of the fundamental orientation of Chinese thinkers (as contrasted with that of Indo-European thinkers)\, then turn briefly to the thought of Confucius and of Zhuangzi to expose the intellectual and existential roots of the lyric tradition. The lyric tradition itself is explicated as a working out of the Zhuangzian ideal of resonating\, mirroring things as they are. Since our conception of Chinese lyric aesthetic can seem surprising\, somehow unanticipated\, the discussion concludes with an account of why this conception has for so long gone unremarked\, an account that brings us full circle\, back to the fundamental orientation of Chinese thinkers with which we began. \n  \nBio \nDanielle Macbeth is T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania\, USA. She is the author of Frege’s Logic (Harvard UP\, 2005) and Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing (Oxford UP\, 2014)\, as well as many essays in\, for example\, the philosophy of language\, the philosophy of mind\, and the history and philosophy of mathematics. She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) in Palo Alto in 2002-3 and has been awarded both an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Burkhardt Fellowship and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-lecture-series-art-as-inquiry-the-path-of-chinese-lyric-aesthetic-by-prof-danielle-macbeth-haverford-college-u-s-a/
LOCATION:E21A-3118
CATEGORIES:Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL Philosophy Café: Session 3 "Why Do We Need Philosophy?"
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URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-philosophy-cafe-session-3-why-do-we-need-philosophy/
LOCATION:Café Rose Garden
CATEGORIES:Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231122T173000
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SUMMARY:FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Viewing Humans and the World Through Affairs” by Prof. Yang Guorong\, East China Normal University\, China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91442748446 \nPassword: 038288 \n  \nAbstract \nUnderstanding and shaping the world are always related with the transformation of the world from its original state into the actual world. The world in its original state is the world as it is of itself. It is only when humans function in the world in their various ways that the questions of understanding and shaping the world arise. The processes of people functioning in the world are also the processes of the unfolding of “affairs” (shi). Affairs (shi) are primarily interrelated with actual human activity. According to Chinese philosophy\, “affairs are action” and “all affairs in the world arise from conduct.” “Affairs” also refers to the outcomes of people’s conduct and action. An outlook that sees the world in terms of affairs seeks to understand and shape the world on the basis of actual human activity and its outcomes. \n  \nBio \nYang Guorong is a senior professor at East China Normal University\, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences\, director of the China Modern Thought and Culture Research Institute at the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education\, and director of the academic committee of the university. He is also the Dean of Ma Yifu Academy at Zhejiang University\, Changjiang Scholar of the Ministry of Education\, and a member of the 5th and 6th Philosophy Discipline Evaluation Groups of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. His main research areas include Chinese philosophy\, comparative philosophy between China and the West\, ethics\, metaphysics\, etc. He has published more than 20 academic works\, and various works have been translated into English and Korean. He has been published in Indian University Press\, Brill\, and others. His academic part-time positions include the President of the International Metaphysics Society (ISM)\, Academician of the International School of Philosophy (IIP)\, Former President of the International Society of Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) (2019-2022)\, President of the Chinese Philosophical History Society\, etc.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-dphil-lecture-series-viewing-humans-and-the-world-through-affairs-by-prof-yang-guorong-east-china-normal-university-china/
LOCATION:E21-3118 or via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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