Date/Time
Wednesday
2 May 2012
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Special Event

Mark Wilson
Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh

The great advances in reasoning capacity due to the so-called “finite element revolution” in modern computing rely upon a subtle reallocation of descriptive content amongst the traditional formulas of engineering practice. This altered distribution of linguistic labor requires the salient “possibilities” of a modeling effort to coordinate amongst themselves in a careful and controlled manner. In this talk we shall explore the wider implications that such constructions suggest for “semantic thinking” about language employment in general.