Linguistic Justice Society Webinars
Francesca Ervas (Cagliari), "Linguistic Injustice and Translation in Analytic Philosophy"
hiw.kuleuven.be/ripple/research/linguisticjusticesociety
ABSTRACT: The aim of the talk is primarily to explain what linguistic injustice is and why it presents a problem within analytic philosophy today. In particular, it aims to show that linguistic injustice is not a contingent philosophical problem, as it concerns the very nature of analytic philosophy and its method. First, I will show that linguistic injustice in analytic philosophy is rooted in the history of the definitions given to the concept of translation. In this regard, the various stages of the history of translation in the analytic tradition will be traced back, from the initial definitions of translation as analysis and calculus to the thematization of the problem of translation in terms of irreducible divergence of conceptual schemes, up to the progressive decrease of interest in the topic. Finally, it will be shown how some challenges raised in pragmatics and logical pluralism make linguistic injustice a central problem for philosophy itself, which today requires a necessary return to the theme of translation.
SPEAKER BIO: Francesca Ervas is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language at the Department of Education, Psychology, and Philosophy, University of Cagliari. She got her degree in Philosophy from the University of Padova and her Ph.D. in Philosophy and Theory of Human Sciences from the University Roma Tre with a thesis titled "Equivalence in Translation: A Philosophical Approach." She was a research assistant in Philosophy of Language at the University Roma Tre, a Visiting Post-Doc at the Department of Linguistics at University College London, and a post-doc at the Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure in Paris. More recently, she was a Visiting Professor at the Institut Jean Nicod, and a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam. Her research interests include translation theory, metaphor theory, and experimental pragmatics.
LJS Webinar convenors: Çağla Çimendereli (Syracuse), Filippo Contesi (Milan/Barcelona), Sergi Morales-Gálvez (Valencia), Yael Peled (Max Planck)