[News] Visiting Speaker Talk: Liz Camp (Rutgers) > Fr, 26 June 2026, 11–12:30

Dear all, You are cordially invited to the following visiting speaker talk: Fr, 26 June 2026, 11–12:30 Venue: Lecture Hall 'HS 42', Main Building, Second Floor (Stiege 7) Liz Camp (Rutgers): Framing for Perspective: Tools for Making Meaning Abstract: The world bombards us with information; in order to act, we must make sense of it. Philosophers typically construe such engagement as one of forming and assessing hypotheses or plans. But much of our epistemic and practical engagement with the world is more intuitive: we explore hunches and inclinations without being able to articulate exactly what these consist in. Getting to the point of even forming a hypothesis or disagreeing with an interlocutor requires deploying and refining a perspective: a complex disposition to selectively attend to, integrate, and respond to information, in virtue of a background of values and statistical assumptions. In order to explore and share perspectives, we often turn to frames: expressive devices like mantras, metaphors, and stories that encapsulate regulative principles for intuitive interpretation. Drawing on an analogy to perception, I identify three ways that the structure of perspectives differs from that of canonical propositional thought and talk, and illustrate the power of frames to guide rational inquiry and communication.