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Workshop on "Disputes in Metaphysics and Conceptual Engineering"

09.18.2023-09.19.2023

Sala de Xuntas (2nd Floor)

PROGRAM

Monday, September 18

16:00 Opening words 

16:10-17:10 Manuel Gustavo Isaac (Center for Trustworthy Technology): “The Engineering Process” (online) 

17:10-17:40 Discussion 

17:40-18:00 Coffee Break 

18:00-18:45 Concha Martínez Vidal (University of Santiago de Compostela): “Engineering the concept of proof” 

18:45-19:00 Discussion 

19:00-19:45 José Luis Falguera (University of Santiago de Compostela): “The target-objects of conceptual engineering: concepts as abstract artifacts” 

19:45-20:00 Discussion 

21:00 Dinner

Tuesday, September 19 

9:30-10:30 Jennifer Nado (University of Hong Kong): “Truth in Philosophy: Revisiting Carnap on Internal and External Questions” 

10:30-11:00 Discussion 

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 

11:30-12:15 Xavier de Donato (University of Santiago de Compostela): “Revision or Abandonment of the Concept of Democracy? Doing Political Ontology by Transforming it” 

12:15-12:30 Discussion 

12:30-13:15 Andrea Núñez Casal (University of Santiago de Compostela): “The bifurcation of microbes as a matter of fact-concern: an ontology of social experience” 

13:15-13:30 Discussion 

14:00-16:00 Lunch 

16:00-17:00 Édouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh): “Should We Really Engineer Confused, Unclear, or Otherwise Deficient Concepts? The Case of Scientific Concepts” 

17:00-17:30 Discussion 

17:30 Closure

 

 

Organized by EPISTEME RESEARCH GROUP and financed by the BBVA Foundation Research Project “Conceptual Engineering and Epistemic Disagreement: A Deflationary Ontosemantic Perspective” and by the National Research Project PID2020-115482GB-I00. 

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