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A Truth-minimalist Reading of Foucault KU Leuven
That we have culturally acquired certain concepts and beliefs, that many concepts that refer to or impose social or cultural classifications have their origin in intended or unintended declarative speech acts, that the institutional facts they intentionally and unintentionally create have a contingent existence and that it is not always fully transparent to us that the facts so created are institutional facts, were Foucault's key insights in his ...
Filosofie als taalkritiek KU Leuven
INTRODUCTION KU Leuven
Institutions and the Artworld - a Critical Notice KU Leuven
Contemporary theories of institutions as clusters of stable solutions to recurrent coordination problems can illuminate and explain some unresolved difficulties and problems adhering to institutional definitions of art initiated by George Dickie and Arthur Danto. Their account of what confers upon objects their institutional character does not fit well with current work on institutions and social ontology. The claim that “the artworld” confers ...
SAYING 'YES' AND 'NO' IN MATTERS OF PERSONAL TASTE KU Leuven
©2017 by Peeters Publishers. All rights reserved. This paper examines the communicative function of public pronouncements about what is tasty, agreeable or attractive, followed by an equally public endorsement or rejection. The typical and expected reaction to contributions like 'This is tasty' or 'The roller coaster is fun' in a conversational setting is not 'how come?' or 'How do you know that?', but a reply that reveals one's own attitude ...
True propositions, accurate representations KU Leuven
Truth and accuracy are different properties. The former is a property of propositions, while the later is a standard-relative and gradual property of representations. While truth is not normative, accuracy is a normative property.
How to Do Things Without Words: A Theory of Declarations KU Leuven
Declarations like 'this meeting is adjourned' make certain facts the case by representing them as being the case. Yet surprisingly little attention has been paid to the mechanism whereby the utterance of a declaration can bring about a new state of affairs. We argue that declarations can serve to bring about the new state of affairs as their utterance have game theoretical import in virtue of the utterer signaling a commitment to act in an ...