Events

•  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.

Platonism and anti-platonism in the philosophy of mathematics

(II) A map of replies to Benacerraf's dilemma
Monday, April 19 - Bologna
Discussion leader: Francesca Boccuni

a. Hale, B., Wright, C. (2002), "Benacerraf's Dilemma Revisited", European Journal of Philosophy, X, 1, pp.101-29.
b. Il problema di Platone, ch. 3.

Venue: aula rossa, III floor. via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.

•  Reading: C. Wright, 2001 "On Being in a Quandary. Relativism vagueness logical revisionism" Mind, 110 (437):45-98
• Discussion leader: Sebastiano Moruzzi
• Venue: sala Rossa, III floor, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

Reading material attached below

Further optional readings:

Prof. Cesare Cozzo (University of Rome - La Sapienza) will deliver a talk.

• Speaker: Cesare Cozzo
• Title: Il ruolo della nozione di verità
• Venue: aula Mondolfo, III floor, via Zamboni 38, Bologna

The talk will be followed by another talk of Gabriele Usberti.

Prof. Gabriele Usberti (University of Siena) will deliver a talk.

• Speaker: Gabriele Usberti
• Title: "Una nozione antirealista di verità per gli asserti empirici"
• Venue: aula Mondolfo, III floor, via Zamboni 38, Bologna

•  Reading: S. Soames (forthcoming)True at
• Discussion leader: Michele Palmira
• Venue: sala Rossa, III floor, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

 
Reading material attached below
 
Further optional readings:

Platonism and anti-platonism in the philosophy of mathematics

(III) Hartry Field's nominalism
Monday, May 3- Padova
Discussion leader: Eugenio Orlandelli

a. Field H. (1982), "Realism and Anti-Realism About Mathematics", in Philosophical Topics, 13:1, 1982, pp. 45-69, also in Realism, Mathematics and Modality, Blackwell, Oxford, 1989, pp. 53-78.
b. Il problema di Platone, ch. 4, par. 1.

• MacFarlane J. (draft) Reading: Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications, chapter 3
• Discussion leader: Delia Belleri
• Venue: sala Rossa, III floor, Via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

 
Reading material attached below
 
Further optional readings:

• Speaker: Carlo Penco (University of Genoa)
• Title: tba
• Venue: Sala Rossa, III floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.