開催日：2018年10月4日

会場：東京大学駒場キャンパス

セント・アンドルーズ大学のDerek Ball氏をお招きして、哲学における理論変化をテーマとした講演を行っていただきますので、ぜひご参加ください。

講演者：Derek Ball（セント・アンドルーズ大学）
講演題目：Revisionary Theorising: Analysis, Definition, and the Political

講演要旨：Sometimes our views about a topic undergo a very deep change; we come to accept an account that differs from our previously established views, or the views of our peers, about issues so fundamental that we are inclined to think that they are matters of analysis, definition, or essence. Recent years have seen such changes in view widely adopted about some matters; for example, many people who once believed that gender was a purely biological matter now think that trans men are men, and many who once believed that marriage excluded same-sex couples by definition now think that same-sex couples can be married. And it is not uncommon for philosophers to advocate for such change (perhaps proponents of idealism, compatibilist views of free will, or the extended mind are examples). How can such a change in view be rational? I develop a theory ― one on which the meaning of our words and the contents of our thoughts are fixed by our views at the end of an inquiry, so that revisionary theorising need not involve change of topic or of meaning ― that explains how revisionary theorising can be rational, and discuss the consequences of this view for the idea that revisionary theorising can be made to serve particular social and political ends.

日時：2018年10月4日（木）18時から20時
場所：東京大学駒場キャンパス14号館308号室

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・本講演会は、科学研究費補助金基盤研究(B)「哲学的知識の本性と哲学方法論に関するメタ哲学研究」（研究代表者：鈴木貴之）による研究活動の一部です。

タグ：メタ哲学, 言語哲学