{"id":1077,"date":"2017-03-30T19:44:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cji.uniri.hr\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2017-04-08T11:54:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T09:54:56","slug":"cji-predavanje-mirela-fus-content-inscrutability-of-generics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cji.uniri.hr\/en\/cji-predavanje-mirela-fus-content-inscrutability-of-generics\/","title":{"rendered":"CJI PREDAVANJE: Mirela Fu\u0161 &#8211; &#8220;Content Inscrutability of Generics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"423\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1090 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cji.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/fotografija-2-423x300.jpg\" alt=\"fotografija 2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cji.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/fotografija-2-423x300.jpg 423w, https:\/\/cji.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/fotografija-2-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cji.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/fotografija-2-1129x800.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Mirela Fu\u0161<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">University of Oslo &amp; University of St Andrews<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u00a0Content Inscrutability of Generics<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u010cetvrtak, 6. travnja 2017. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>14 sati, <\/strong><strong>predavaonica 105<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Generic expressions or generics (e.g. \u201cTigers have stripes\u201d or \u201cMosquitos carry the West Nile virus\u201d) are statements that express generalizations but do not specify how many members of the kind exactly have the property being expressed. To this date there has been no agreement about even fundamental features of generics. There is a disagreement on their underlying logical form; whether they involve referring expressions to kinds or whether they are generalizations about individual members of the kind; whether they involve a generic operator Gen, what would Gen quantify over, or whether it exists.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, there is no agreement on the treatment of pernicious implicatures of certain generics such as \u201cMuslims are theorists\u201d or \u201cWomen are submissive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I formulate and address the Hard Problem for Generics (HGP): How to provide a relatively simple and unified semantics for generics? My answer to HPG is twofold:<\/p>\n<p>(i) Content Inscrutability of Generics<\/p>\n<p>At this point, we lack a simple and unified semantics for generics because the content of generics is inscrutable.<\/p>\n<p>(ii) Amelioration of Content Inscrutability of Generics<\/p>\n<p>The concept of generics needs to be ameliorated.<\/p>\n<p>First, I introduce and argue for a conceptual deficiency I call content inscrutability. In particular, I extend MacFarlane\u00b4s (2016) argument about context inscrutability to content inscrutability. Furthermore, I argue for the content inscrutability deficiency as a supplement to Cappelen (forthcoming) classification of conceptual deficiencies. Finally, I look at some possible amelioration strategies for content inscrutability of generics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirela Fu\u0161 University of Oslo &amp; University of St Andrews \u00a0Content Inscrutability of Generics \u00a0\u010cetvrtak, 6. travnja 2017. 14 sati, predavaonica 105 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Generic expressions or generics (e.g. \u201cTigers have stripes\u201d or \u201cMosquitos carry the West Nile virus\u201d) are statements that express generalizations but do not specify how many members of the kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CJI PREDAVANJE: Mirela Fu\u0161 - &quot;Content Inscrutability of Generics&quot; 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