Nat Hansen – November 6
Nov 3rd, 2009 by bochnak
Our very own Nat Hansen (Philosophy) will presenting at the workshop this week, Friday November 6, 2009. As usual, the meeting will take place from 11am-1pm in the seminar room of the Karen Landahl Center (Social Sciences basement). Title and abstract below:
“A Slugfest of Intuitions: Contextualism and Experimental Design”
Evidence for contextualism consists of intuitions generated in response to a variety of thought experiments. I argue that features of experimental design influence the intuitions generated by contextualist thought experiments. Unless these features are controlled for, contextualists are not justified in drawing semantic conclusions from these intuitions. I offer several methodological recommendations for improving contextualist methodology.