Practical information
20 June 2019
1pm-3pm
Place
EHESS, 105 Bd Raspail, room 2, 75006 Paris
IJN
Lecture series
Elisabeth Camp (Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers) est professeur invitée EHESS à l’IJN.
Mental maps, paper maps, e-maps
June 13, 2019, 1pm-5pm: EHESS room 2, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris
Representations, Vehicles and Structures
Why do we care about the structure of representations? How do we identify what structure a representational system employs? How do distinct structures affect the implementation, expressive range, and use of different representational systems?
Propositions, Predicates and Maps
What does it mean to claim that maps have either propositional or predicative structure? Why should we think they do have such structure? Why think they don’t?
June 20, 2019, 1pm-3pm: EHESS, room 2, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris
Continuous Cartographic Compositionality
How can we extend standard notions of compositionality, articulated in the service of a theory of linguistic meaning, to maps, including especially maps that employ marks with potentially continuous syntactic and semantic variability? What form would a distinctively cartographic semantics take?
June 21, 2019, 2pm - 3:30pm, Jean Nicod Colloquium: Conference room Pavillon Jardin, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris
Agency in Understanding: Perspectives, Complicity, and Complacency
In politics, art, science, and ordinary life, we often employ ‘framing devices’, such as metaphors and just-so stories, to express and coordinate perspectives. But can such frames help us achieve genuine understanding? If they merely manipulate associative patterns of thought, then the Gestalt click of ‘getting’ a frame offers a dangerous illusion of epistemic value. I argue that framing devices can support a robust and epistemically distinctive access to the world; identify some norms for assessing their epistemic aptness; and explore ways to achieve the sort of critical engagement needed to combat their attendant risk of epistemic complacency.
