Mark Hopwood

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Elucidations · Episode 50: Greg Salmieri discusses the Aristotelian good life and productive work · 21 Aug 2013 podcast

And so our idea about the best kind of life and the virtuous person has to include a set of ideas about, for example, slavery being wrong, being unjust, whatever else.

But once we've done that, we have a workable Aristotelian view.

I mean, does that strike you as a reasonable kind of way to go?

So is your thought here that in order to really kind of bring Aristotle up to date, so to speak, we're going to have to have a different view about the value of these productive activities.

We're going to have to see them as somehow not just worthwhile for the sake of something else, but worthwhile in themselves.

So I wonder if there would be the following kind of consequence of this view.

I mean, you were talking about people's relation to their work and how to think about one's work.

I mean, what do you make of the thought that there are some kinds of jobs that just conduce better to that than others?

With the best will in the world, if you're putting things in boxes for Amazon and you have to get a certain amount of them done in a minute and you have someone standing over you with a stopwatch and they're going to fire you if you don't meet your quota and all the rest of it, it's just a lot more difficult.

to see your work in in the right kind of way than it is if you're i know a skilled mechanic building something i mean is there a consequence here that we should be trying to do something about the conditions under which people work that we should promote certain kinds of jobs rather than others

Elucidations · Episode 49: Hans Kamp discusses discourse representation theory · 17 Jul 2013 podcast

Uh so Professor Camp, maybe to start with a fairly basic question.

So you work in what's known as formal semantics.

And I wonder if you could just uh say something briefly about what formal semantics is.

What are you working on when you work on formal semantics?

That's really interesting, that there's a difficulty here that wouldn't necessarily appear just from thinking about the job you're trying to do.

So uh maybe you could give a simple example of where this difficulty arises.

Um so yeah, once again, I mean maybe you could give an example of the way in which this works or the way in which what has been said already contributes to the meaning of what gets said.

So I mean all the examples we've talked about so far uh are about people waking up in bed and about donkeys, but I mean of course this theory has much more profound consequences than just for our understanding of these particular sentences.

So I I mean I know that one kind of application that DRT has had is to varied fields like computer science and linguistics and computer programming.

You also I believe think

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