Categoria: Curriculum Episteme
The event will be held on premises in Genoa.
EPILOG 2024/2025 — June-July: On Knowledge and Communication
Dates: From the 6th of June, every Friday, hours TBA
Venue: Genova, via Balbi 30, 7th floor (Ph.D. room)
Coordinator: Massimiliano Vignolo (massimiliano.vignolo@unige.it
) Description:
A traditional view of communication holds that a necessary condition for a successful communicative transaction is as follows: If a speaker knows that <p>, utters a statement to convey this knowledge to their audience, and the communication is successful, then the hearer must come to know that <p> as a result of the communicative transaction (see Evans (1982); Heck (1995)). Although traditional, this view has become controversial (see Dickie (in press)). Recent arguments suggest that the relationship between knowledge and communication is not as simple as it originally appeared. If this is the case, a new debate will likely arise, challenging the assumed connection and leading to a definitive revision of the close relationship between knowledge and communication.
Schedule of Meetings and Bibliography:
- 06.06.2025 Heck (1995) ‘The Sense of Communication’ in Mind, vol. 104, No. 413, pp. 79-106; Evans (1982) The Varieties of Reference, Ch. 9;
- 13.06.2025 Dickie & Rattan (2010) ‘Sense, Communication, and Rational Engagement’ in Dialectica, vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 131-151; Dickie (in press) ‘Communication beyond Frege’ [no reference available];
- 20.06.2025 Campbell (2005) ‘Joint attention and common knowledge’ in Naomi Eilan, Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack & Johannes Roessler (eds.), Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford, GB: Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 287-297; Siposova & Carpenter (2019) ‘A new look at joint attention and common knowledge’ in Cognition, vol. 189, No. C, pp. 260-274;
- 27.06.2025 Lederman (2017) ‘Uncommon Knowledge’ in Mind, Vol. 00, No. 0, pp. 1-37;
- 04.07.2025 Nagel (forthcoming) ‘Common knowledge and its limits’ in Alex Burri & Michael Frauchiger (eds.), Themes from Williamson, De Gruyter.
