[MaFLa] meghívó, október 19, 2nd Language and Power workshop, BME

[Zsofia Zvolenszky]

Kedves Kollégák,

Az alábbi nyelvfilozófia workshopunkon szeretettel várjuk az érdeklődőket.
Előzetes regisztráció szükséges. A legjobbakat,
Z s ó f i a   Z v o l e n s z k y
http://phil.elte.hu/zvolenszky

full professor, department chair
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University
(ELTE), Budapest

The Department of Sociology and Communication, Budapest University of
Technology and Economics (BME), Budapest, Hungary, and

 The Budapest Workshop for Language in Action, Department of Logic,
Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary

announce their upcoming workshop in the *Action and Context *series:

with Teresa Marques and Manuel Garcia-Carpintero

University of Barcelona, Spain



2nd Budapest Language and Power workshop

Venue: Department of Sociology and Communication, Budapest University of
Technology and Economics (BME), 1111 Budapest, Egry József Street 1.
Building E, Room 704.

Time: 10 a.m.—5 p.m. on Saturday, October 19, 2019





Schedule:

10:00—13:00 Manuel Garcia-Carpintero: Singular Reference in Fictional
Discourse?

Following Manuel’s talk, coffee break and extended discussion of his
presentation, paper

Discussants:

Tibor Bárány, BME, ELTE

Áron Dombrovszki, ELTE

Szilvia Finta, Saint Paul Academy, ELTE

Zsófia Zvolenszky, ELTE



13:00—14:00 lunch break



14:00—17:00 Teresa Marques: Amelioration v. Perversion

Following Teresa’s talk, coffee break and extended discussion of her
presentation, paper

Discussants:

Tibor Bárány, BME, ELTE

Szilvia Finta, Saint Paul Academy, ELTE

Anna Réz, ELTE

Zsófia Zvolenszky, ELTE





Organizers: Tibor Bárány, Zsófia Zvolenszky, László Bernáth, János Tőzsér, Áron
Dombrovszki



To attend, please register at barany.tibor at gmail.comand zvolenszky at nyu.eduby
Thursday, October 17 (Thursday) at noon. Only previously registered
participants are allowed in the building given BME’s weekend regulations.

Abstracts:

Amelioration v. Perversion

Teresa Marques LOGOS Research Group; BIAP – Barcelona institute of Analytic
Philosophy; Department of Philosophy, University of Barcelona
teresamatosferreira at ub.edu

Words change meaning, usually in unpredictable ways. But some words’
meanings are revised intentionally. Revisionary projects are normally put
forward in the service of some purpose – some serve specific goals of
inquiry, and others serve ethical, political or social aims. Revisionist
projects can ameliorate meanings, but they can also pervert. In this paper,
I want to draw attention to the dangers of meaning perversions, and argue
that the self- declared goodness of a revisionist project doesn’t suffice
to avoid meaning perversions. The road to Hell, or to horrors on Earth, is
paved with good intentions. Finally, and more importantly, I want to
demarcate what meaning perversions are. This, I hope, can help us assess
the moral and political legitimacy of revisionary projects.



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Singular Reference in Fictional Discourse?

Manuel García-CarpinteroBIAP/LOGOS-Departament de Filosofia Universitat de
Barcelona e-mail: m.garciacarpintero at ub.edu

Singular terms used in fictions for fictional characters raise well-known
philosophical issues, explored in depth in the literature. But philosophers
typically assume that names already in use to refer to “moderate-sized
specimens of dry goods” cause no special problem when occurring in
fictions, behaving there as they ordinarily do in straightforward
assertions. In this paper I continue a debate with Stacie Friend, arguing
against this for the exceptionalist view that names of real entities in
fictional discourse don’t work there as they do in simple-sentence
assertions, but rather as fictional names do.
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