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The Department of Philosophy will present the following:
"Kinds and Category Cognition"
Guest Speaker: Prof. Hector MacIntyre (Research Services, U of L)
Day/Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: C-674
Appealing partly to Dennett's quasi-realism, Khalidi (2013) argues for a unitary theory of natural and special science kinds as simple causal patterns. His main premise is epistemological, and I assess it in light of the findings of categorization research in cognitive and developmental psychology. Leslie (2013) has argued that these findings reveal a strong cognitive bias toward essentialism at work in our epistemic intuitions about kinds. I discuss how the research on artifact categorization both supports and attenuates this claim, but ultimately I hold that Khalidi's premise is false.
Everyone is welcome.
Contact:
Bev Garnett | bev.garnett@uleth.ca | (403) 380-1894
