Events

Venue: Sala Rossa, III floor, via AzzoGardino 23, Bologna.

We we will have a planning session dedicated to select the next readings on truth and relativism (focusing on themes related to the Truth&Relativsm June conference).

Please think about a possible reading list before the session.

You can already make proposals here:

•  Reading: Kripke, S., 1975, “Outline of a theory of truth”, Journal of Philosophy, 72: 690–716 [attached below]
• Discussion leader: Paolo Leonardi
• Venue: sala rossa, III floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

Reading material attached below

Further optional readings:

• The Revision Theory of Truth http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-revision/
• Field, H, Saving Truth from Paradox, chap.3, [attached below]

Alessia Marabini will deliver a talk related to her PhD project.

• Speaker: Alessia Marabini
• Title: "Some remarks on Analyticity and the A Priori in the Williamson-Boghossian debate"
• Venue: sala rossa, III floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

Platonism and anti-platonism in the philosophy of mathematics

(I) Benacerraf's dilemma 

Tuesday, April 13  - Bologna
Discussion leaders: Marco Panza, Andrea Sereni

• Discussion leader: Giorgio Volpe
• Venue: sala Rossa, III floor, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

 
Reading material:

• P. Kitcher, 'On the Explanatory Role of Correspondence Truth', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (2002), pp. 346-364 [attached below]

 
Further optional readings:
 
Background reading

Prof. Micheal Devitt (CUNY) will give a talk on linguistic intuitions.

• Speaker: Micheal Devitt
• Title: Linguistic Intuitions Revisited [paper attached below, focus on Part I with some brief mentions of II and III.]
• Venue: aula Roveri, ground floor, via Zamboni 38, Bologna

• See also the papers listed in this page for further bibliography on the topic.