<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black">The
 Center for Philosophy of Science invites you to join us for our Lunch 
Time Talk.  Attend in person, Room 1117 on the 11th floor of the 
Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh or visit our live 
stream on YouTube at </span><span style="color:blue"><u><a style="color:blue;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" id="m_4994766504587860642m_-1018825997172530481m_250285771999945899gmail-OWA9f910a22-e1ae-addd-054d-aeb65fae0821" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a></u></span><span style="color:black">.    </span></div><p style="direction:ltr;margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p><div style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:black"><b><font size="4">Lunch Time Talk -   Daian Tatiana Flórez Quintero</font></b></div><div style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Meet Daian:  <a title="Original URL: https://youtu.be/iswxCrMFQ5E. Click or tap if you trust this link." id="m_4994766504587860642m_-1018825997172530481m_250285771999945899gmail-LPlnkOWA9276ac9a-7495-59ba-00d3-48108b13d993" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://youtu.be/iswxCrMFQ5E" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/iswxCrMFQ5E</a></div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"><b>Tuesday, November 19th @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT</b></div><div style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"><span style="font-weight:bolder"><br></span></div><div style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"><span style="font-weight:bolder">Title: Technological Incommensurability & Artifactual Kinds</span></div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"><span style="font-weight:bolder"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"><span style="font-weight:bolder">Abstract:</span></div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Contemporary
 philosophers remain captivated by the siren songs of Scylla (physics) 
and Charybdis (biology), despite the remarkable progress achieved by 
engineering sciences in our time, which continues to be 
underappreciated. This is one of the motivations that has driven me to 
explore whether a semantic phenomenon akin to the one Kuhn discovered 
occurs in the domain of technology. Another motivation stems from 
observing the immense conceptual richness of technology, which has been 
overlooked by philosophers for decades. One reason for this neglect is 
that, among both laypeople and scholars, has prevailed a perspective 
that equates technology with the mere production of material objects and
 artifacts.</div><div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">My
 goals are twofold. First, I will defend the claim that there is 
incommensurability in technology. Second, I will argue that the semantic
 changes characteristic of incommensurability occur specifically in a 
special type of kind terms—which Kuhn insightfully identified in his 
unpublished work as <i>artifactual kind terms</i>. To support both 
theses, I will present a historical argument that supports the existence
 of kind terms in the engineering sciences. Specifically, I will show 
that the term “concrete” not only exhibits the archetypal 
characteristics of kind terms, but that the semantic changes occurring 
in the transition from Roman to contemporary engineering exemplify 
technological incommensurability. To argue that there is 
incommensurability in technology, I will advance a formulation of such 
thesis, which is subsidiary of the one given by Kuhn in the 1980s. 
Secondly, I will explore the characteristics of artifact kind terms and 
show how technological terms, such as ‘unit element’ or ‘concrete’, 
qualify as genuine kind terms.</div><div style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;line-height:1.418;margin:0px;padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"><b><br></b></div><div style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;line-height:1.418;margin:0px;padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Can’t make it in-person? This talk will available online through the following:</div><div style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;line-height:1.418;margin:0px;padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black">Zoom:  </span><span style="color:rgb(0,86,172);font-weight:700"><u><a href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/91677465974" target="_blank">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/91677465974</a></u></span></div><div style="direction:ltr;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;line-height:1.418;margin:0px;padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black">YouTube at </span><span style="color:rgb(0,86,172)"><a style="color:rgb(0,86,172)" id="m_4994766504587860642m_-1018825997172530481m_250285771999945899gmail-OWAa976cf83-8935-e659-c7ea-aded51f7102c" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a></span><span style="color:black">.</span></div><div style="direction:ltr;margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"><b><br></b></div><p style="direction:ltr;margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><div id="m_4994766504587860642m_-1018825997172530481m_250285771999945899gmail-x_x_x_x_x_x_Signature"><p style="background-color:white;margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(12,100,192)"><i><br></i></span></p></div></div>
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