Philosophy of Language Reading Seminar: Planning Session

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 List Proposals on Truth&Relativism

• 'Contextualism and Relativism - M. Richard' (Michele)
• 'True at - S. Soames' (Michele)
• MacFarlane's draft of his forthcoming book on relativism (Sebastiano&Filippo)
•  J.C. Beall, "Modelling the `Ordinary View'", in Greenough and Lynch (eds.) Truth And Realism, pp. 61-76 (2006);
• Peter Lasersohn, "Context Dependence, Disagreement, and Predicates of Personal Taste", Linguistics and Philosophy 28 (2005), pp. 643-686;
• Peter Lasersohn, "Quantification and Perspective in Relativist Semantics", Philosophical Perspectives, 2008 (Attempts to clarify some issues about the use of hidden arguments to predicates of personal taste, and motivate an analysis which does not make use of such arguments).   
• Peter Lasersohn, "Relative Truth, Speaker Commitment, and Control of Implicit Arguments". Synthese, 2009 (Motivates a relativist semantics independently of "faultless disagreement" by examing the behavior of predicates of personal taste in factive environments and under the verb "consider").  
• Andy Egan, "De Gustibus Non Disputandum Est (At Least, Not Always)", forthcoming in Disagreement, Feldman and Warfield (eds.) (2010);
• Paul Boghossian:" What is Relativism?" in Greenough and Lynch (eds.) Truth And Realism, OUP (2006);
• Crispin Wright: "True Relativism", in Greenough and Lynch (eds.) Truth And Realism, OUP (2006);
• Wright, Crispin (forthcoming). “Fear of Relativism?” In: Philosophy and
  Phenomenological Research. See p. 49.