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Présidence   : Matheus Valente Résumé According to Phenomenal Transparency, experiencing a phenomenal property puts one is in a position to acquire knowledge of its essence. In this paper, I will argue that Phenomenal Transparency risks forcing upon us a …

Présidence   : Julien Bugnon Résumé If God exists necessarily and is essentially conscious, then there is a conscious being in every possible world. However, it is conceivable that nothing is conscious, which perhaps gives us reason to think that it’s …

Résumé It’s often said within epistemology circles that self-locating beliefs about now and then change in peculiar ways incompatible with traditional Bayesian update rules, and so, that these beliefs are epistemically exceptional. The point is clear …

Résumé As is well-known, Travis and his followers have argued that the individuation of thoughts is an occasion-sensitive matter (Travis 2000, 2017; Dobler 2020; see also Putnam 2002). This means that the semantic and cognitive individuation of …

Résumé According to Fregean theories, thinking the same thought requires thinking not only about the same referent, but also thinking about it in the same way, under the same concept. Fregean theories face ‘Schiffer’s Puzzle’ (Schiffer, 2005; Buchanan, …

Présidence   : Rachel Goodman Résumé Let a property concept be transparent if and only if a thinker who has acquired such a concept is in a position to fully understand the nature of the property it is a concept of. Proponents of phenomenal transparency …

Résumé In relation to Frege’s claim that one can express the same thought today by means of ‘yesterday’ that one expressed yesterday by means of ‘today’, Perry remarks: But should the Thought be the same? The belief expressed by "The midterm elections be …

Présidence   : Rachel Goodman Résumé I will use the clinical phenomenon of thought insertion as a test case for a comparison between some of the available accounts of the concept of self we use in de se thoughts, namely those thoughts we would most …

Résumé With roots in Frege’s famous remarks (1956, 296), reflection on Rip van Winkle’s fantastic story has played a key role in the philosophical study of indexical dynamics (Kaplan 1989, Perry 1997, Branquinho 2008, Ludlow 2019). Consider now the …

Présidence   : François Recanati Résumé According to a posteriori physicalism, the apparent gap between consciousness and the physical world has its source not in the nature of consciousness (ontological gap), but only in features of the concepts we use …

Présidence   : François Recanati Résumé I will look at the transparency principles that have been proposed, at the relations between them, and at the role that they play in arguments for and against various weighty philosophical …

Résumé We frequently rely on the circumstances of our utterance when making recognisable to others what object our utterance is about. We rely, for instance, on spatial proximity to an object. A suitably close object can be referred to in a way that …

Résumé One potential conservative reaction to the concept of indexicality of content involves a theory that treats indexicality as a property inherent to content-bearers. While this view aligns intuitively with linguistic cases, as indexicality is …

Résumé We often do the same thing by doing different things, while we also do different things by doing the same thing. The former is the case when we think of a particular object (place, time, people, etc.) while we move on from one context to another. …

Résumé In recent decades, a compelling factor contributing to the popularity of referentialist accounts lies in their apparent ability to reconcile their main tenets with Frege’s original insights about cognitive significance. To achieve this integration, …

Résumé In the last twenty years, Chalmers has argued for a two-dimensional seman- tics, according to which every expression (of the sort that is a candidate to have an extension) is associated with a primary intension and a secondary intension. A primary …

Résumé In this paper I discuss two approaches to certain context-sensitive cognitive episodes, focusing on temporal indexicals and tense. The first approach is David Kaplan’s (1979, 1989). The second is the reflexive-referential approach used by Korta and …

La conférence est en anglais. Résumé The talk will describe the difficult process of drug development in academia. In particular it will consist of past, present, and hopefully future clinical candidates from the Jung lab. The bulk of the talk will be a …

Résumé In today's ever-evolving landscape of neurotechnology, the intersection between technological advancements and community engagement holds significant importance. This is especially evident in the context of groundbreaking first-in-human clinical …