Daniel Pontoh
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Daniel Pontoh, recent graduate, BA Major in Philosophy, is among the recipients of a 2026 Next-Generation Scholar summer placement (formerly known as the Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Award).
His summer research project, "The Inferential Structure of Knowledge," is supervised by Prof. Ulf Hlobil.
Daniel Pontoh describes the project:
The research began by looking at accounts of mind, language, and action by authors including Wilfrid Sellars, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and G. E. M. Anscombe. Drawing on reconstructions and critiques of these authors' accounts, an attempt is made to answer the question of what language use is for and, further, what this means for knowledge. To answer these questions, useful accounts from Robert Brandom's Making It Explicit are also explored.
The Next-Generation Scholar program provides funding to students in the fine arts, social sciences, humanities, engineering and computer science, business disciplines, and natural and health sciences. The goal of the program is to stimulate interest in research, participatory research, or research creation work that will complement undergraduate coursework and enhance preparation for graduate studies or research-related careers.