semantic relativism

Professor John MacFarlane (Berkeley) will be visiting Cogito from June 7 to June 11 2010.

Prof. MacFarlane will lead a series of five research seminars in Bologna.

Prof. John MacFarlane, visiting professor at Cogito from June 7 to June 11, will lead a series of five research seminars.

This is the fifth, and last, seminar of the series.

• 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:

1. Contextualism/Pluralism about disagrement

   It is unclear whether MacFarlane (from now on "MF")'s stance on disagreement is contextualist or pluralist. If the latter. it would require a common core of principles, though allowing for further principles that describe the different notions of disagreement. If on the other hand MF's position on disagreement is conextualist, its committment is confinded to the idea thatthe relational expression of disagrement "D(x,y,phi-ing,c)" can designate different relations in different "contexts of a disagreement".

• Reading: "Semantics and Truth Relative to a World", by Michael Glanzberg, Synthese 166 (2009): 281-307
• Discussion leader: Michele Palmira
• Venue: Sala Rossa, III floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

 
Reading material attached below.

We will discuss MacFarlane's latest paper in disagreement.

Reading: Varieties of Disagreement

Discussion leader: Sebastiano Moruzzi

Venue: aula seminariale, via Zamboni 38, V piano, Bologna

Speaker: Dag Westerstahl (University of Göteborg)
Title: Reflections on disagreement

Venue: Sala Rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.

L'articolo che ho menzionato oggi al seminario di epistemologia è il seguente:

Heck, R. (2006), "MacFarlane on Relative Truth", Philosophical Issues 16, pp. 88-100.

Qui Heck discute di alcuni problemi per i report su quello che viene detto. Report che dovrebbero essere a favore del relativismo. Allego articolo sotto.

Vi segnalo questo nuovo paper su relativismo e disaccordo:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/3v315742g4580636/

Lo trovate anche allegato qui sotto.

We will discuss final chapter -chapter 4- of H. Cappelen and J. Hawthorne's Relativism and Monadic Truth (OUP:2009)

Discussion leader: Sebastiano Moruzzi

Minute taker: tba

http://folk.uio.no/hermanc/docs/RelativismAndMonadicTruthFinal.pdf