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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥
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Philosopher at VU Amsterdam
PI of ERC-funded project 'Social Epistemology of Argumentation' (2018-2024)
Author of 'The Dialogical Roots of Deduction' (CUP, 2020) and 'Formal Languages in Logic' (CUP, 2012)
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Catarina Dutilh Novaes is a Brazilian and Dutch philosopher whose research concerns the formalization of argumentation and reasoning in the history of logic and the philosophy of logic. She is a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and a professorial fellow at the Arché philosophical research centre of the University of St Andrews in Scotland. .. more

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Nov 11
Hi all! I'm a philosopher at VU Amsterdam. Over the past 6 years I've been leading the ERC-funded project 'The Social Epistemology of Argumentation'. With some amazing young scholars, we've been developing more realistic accounts of argumentative processes. I'll post some links to articles below.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 9d
My colleague Tamara Dobler is organizing this very cool workshop on the semantics-pragmatics distinction, taking place at VU Amsterdam on June 25-26. (It is possible to register as a participant by sending Tamara an email.) My talk will be on joint work with @celinehenne.bsky.social
Poster for workshop, with pictures of windows and the names of speakers.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · 12d
Precies! Ik ben ooit voor de mooie verhalen van D66 gevallen en een paar keer op hen gestemd. Maar intussen weet ik het beter... Dit gezegd hebbend, heb ik liever Jetten als premier dan andere opties, maar wel met een flinke dosis expectation management.

Reposted by Catarina Dutilh Novaes

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Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 22d
Dia 10.02, Pedro (@93pedrobravo.bsky.social) e eu estaremos organizando um book symposium sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de D. Ludwig ( @davidludwig.bsky.social) e C. El-Hani. O livro é maravilhoso. Não deixem de se inscrever pelo link: bit.ly/4jtM3rD.
cartaz do simpósio sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de David Ludwig e Charbel El-Hani com os debatedores Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Eros Carvalho, Sarita Albagli e Ulysses Albuquerque. O evento ocorrerá dia 10 de fevereiro, das 9h30 à 11h30. O prazo para inscrição é até o dia 06 de fevereiro pelo link http://bit.ly/4jtM3rD. A organização é de Pedro Bravo e Marcos Fanton.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Jan 3
I gave a talk on what I see as problematic in the EI research program (Robin saw a version of it too) that was attended by @lisabortolotti.com who then invited me to contribute to this SI. I think the two of you would be great contributors to it, hope you consider sending something in 😊

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Jan 3
Have you seen this special issue? I think a paper developing the points you made in the post would be a great fit for it!
www.argumenta.org/cfp/the-epis...
THE EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE RESEARCH PROGRAMME: DEGENERATIVE OR PROGRESSIVE? - Argumenta - Journal of Analytic Philosophy
The notion of epistemic injustice introduced by Miranda Fricker in 2007 raised interest in the harmful effects of prejudice within analytic philosophy and beyond. It inspired various projects linking ...
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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 18
Agreed! My favorite dialogue by Plato 🤩

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 18
Haven’t seen it yet 😬

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 18
To be clear, I'm very much in favor of philotainment! The fun can be deep, and the deep can be fun 😀

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 18
Chatting with a colleague today, we came up with a neologism (maybe it already exists): PHILOTAINMENT, i.e., philosophical entertainment (or entertaining philosophy).

Some examples of philotainment that comes to mind: the series 'The Good Place', maybe 'The Matrix', Slavoj Žižek. Other examples?

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 18
Cool! I'd love to hear what you think of the paper if/when you read it 😊

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 18
Brandom has been a major influence on my thinking for over 15 years. But as I became more interested in the entanglement of discursive practices with politics and power relations, I moved away from idealized approaches such as his GOGAR towards more 'realistic' accounts of argumentative processes.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 18
->Netherlands. The case study illustrates in particular the limitations of Brandom’s account when it comes to problematizing the potentially exclusionary, status quo-affirming aspects of discursive practices of giving and asking for reasons."

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 18
->consideration in particular the cognitive limitations of human beings and the power relations underpinning discursive interactions. To illustrate the differences between the two approaches, I discuss a specific case study, namely the societal debates on the folk figure of “Black Pete” in the->

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 18
->in these practices. In this paper, I contrast Brandom’s account of the “game of giving and asking for reasons” with the conceptualization of argumentation as epistemic exchange (of reasons) that I have been developing in recent years. My account openly aims to be more realistic, taking into->

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 18
"Brandom’s inferentialism relies on a highly idealized account of discursive practices of giving and asking for reasons, which deviates considerably from concrete, real-life practices. In particular, it abstracts away features pertaining to politics and to the power relations among those involved->

Reposted by Alan Richardson

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 18
Just in time for Xmas 😀 My paper on the absence of sustained discussion of power relations in R. Brandom's inferentialism is out! "Who Gets to Play? Power in the Game of Giving and Asking for Reasons". Abstract 👇
journals.openedition.org/ejpap/5366
Who Gets to Play?
1. Introduction Robert Brandom’s inferentialist research program has been one of the most comprehensive, wide-ranging philosophical research programs in the last decades, bringing together topics f...
journals.openedition.org

Reposted by Steven French, Catarina Dutilh Novaes

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Springer @springer.springernature.com · Dec 17
How do mathematical proofs really develop? This #OpenAccess chapter revisits Lakatos’ proofs and refutations, showing how dialogue, challenge, and cooperation shape mathematical practice and why his ideas still matter today. bit.ly/4ai5Ojo @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social #philsci #philsky #booksky
Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 11
I don’t think so, I love Eurovision! But it’s time for Israel not to be allowed to participate anymore.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 10
At some point, the whole Eurovision thing won't be viable anymore, if a few more countries drop out. C'mon, other countries, grow a spine!

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Lisa Bortolotti, Catarina Dutilh Novaes , and 1 more

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Experimental Philosophy Journal @xphijournal.bsky.social · Dec 8
Please share!
The journal "Experimental

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 4
For once, the Netherlands making the right choice.

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Ben Crum , and 3 more

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Dec 2
Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy

Feel free to contact me, if you have questions #philsky #philjobs

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 2
Done, thanks!

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 2
Does anyone have institutional access to this awesome-looking volume? My library doesn't have it, and I want to consult two of the chapters (the one on Anna Julia Cooper and the one on Jane Addams). Any help would be gratefully received 😊
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century
Abstract. This handbook challenges the misconception that there were no female philosophers during the nineteenth century. It explores the diverse philosop
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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 1
"For me, marriage is a form of state authority and coercion that I will not endorse through my participation."
As someone who has once partaken in the institution (now divorced), I feel the same way. Also, it's historically a patriarchal institution that cannot be fully unburdened from its history.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Dec 1
"Perhaps this is behind the burgeoning genre of opinion pieces in which a rightwing man complains that women don’t want to date him. Often enough, he is an avowed libertarian, leaving it a mystery why he does not simply accept the workings of the free market." 🤣
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery | Naoise Dolan
Survey data suggests more and more girls can’t imagine getting married, while their male counterparts are keener. That disparity holds a clue, says writer Naoise Dolan
www.theguardian.com

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Nov 18
I was just in a workshop on mathematical understanding in Princeton last week; this point came up pertaining to mathematics, but it generalizes to other areas of inquiry.

Reposted by Steven French

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Nov 18
Indeed! What also happens is that the masters move on to something *else* that they claim is mysterious & requires ingenuity (now that their previous skills have been democratized by automation), so as to reaffirm their superiority. It's a recurrent phenomenon with novel disruptive technologies.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Nov 18
Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.

(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
Roughly speaking those who work in connection with the [automatic computing engine] will be divided into its masters and its servants. Its masters will plan out instruction tables for it, thinking up deeper and deeper ways of using it...The masters are liable to get replaced because as soon as any technique becomes at all stereotyped it becomes possible to devise a system of instruction tables which will enable the electronic computer to do it for itself. It may happen however that the masters will refuse to do this. They may be unwilling to let their jobs be stolen from them in this way. In that case they would surround the whole of their work with mystery and make excuses, couched in well chosen gibberish, whenever any dangerous suggestions were made. — Alan Turing (1947) Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Trevor A. Branch

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Nov 18
Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.

(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
Roughly speaking those who work in connection with the [automatic computing engine] will be divided into its masters and its servants. Its masters will plan out instruction tables for it, thinking up deeper and deeper ways of using it...The masters are liable to get replaced because as soon as any technique becomes at all stereotyped it becomes possible to devise a system of instruction tables which will enable the electronic computer to do it for itself. It may happen however that the masters will refuse to do this. They may be unwilling to let their jobs be stolen from them in this way. In that case they would surround the whole of their work with mystery and make excuses, couched in well chosen gibberish, whenever any dangerous suggestions were made. — Alan Turing (1947) Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes 🟥 @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social · Nov 16
On this, I love this paper on justified exclusions in mathematics, focusing on justly excluded cranks. Which doesn't mean that there can be no false negatives, but it's a matter of workload management for the community.
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