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On possibility and content (2008)| shared_uid | 804 |
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| title | On possibility and content |
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| type | Séminaire |
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| year | 2008 |
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| start_date | 2009/01/07 |
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| stop_date | 2009/01/27 |
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| schedule | 10h-12h |
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| active | no |
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| summary | The seminar will be on possibility and content. I will argue that these two notions are closely related, and cannot be understood independently of one another. The core idea can be stated simply: to describe a sentence's truth-conditions is to explain how the world must be in order for the truth-conditions to be satisfied. But it has far reaching consequences. I will argue that it can help address puzzles in modal epistemology, ontology and vagueness.
The seminar will draw on material from a book manuscript I am working on, which is based on the following papers:
- http://web.mit.edu/arayo/www/posex.pdf ;
- http://web.mit.edu/arayo/www/modality.pdf ;
- http://web.mit.edu/arayo/www/fc.pdf ;
- http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/fzn029?ijkey=PXmDlLfZxG54YWn&keytype=ref ;
For a more user-friendly introduction to some of the main themes of the seminar, I recommend:
- http://web.mit.edu/arayo/www/sb.pdf> |
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| responsibles | Rayo |
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