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Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association
September 2007 Volume 81, Issue 1 Proceedings and Addresses of The American Philosophical Association apa THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION Eastern Division Program University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 www.apaonline.org The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division One Hundred Fourth Annual Meeting Marriott Waterfront Hotel Baltimore, MD December 27 - 30, 2007 Proceedings and Addresses of The American Philosophical Association Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association (ISSN 0065-972X) is published five times each year and is distributed to members of the APA as a benefit of membership and to libraries, departments, and institutions for $75 per year. It is published by The American Philosophical Association, 31 Amstel Ave., University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. Second-Class Postage Paid at Newark, DE and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Proceedings and Addresses, The American Philosophical Association, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. Editor: David E. Schrader Phone: (302) 831-1112 Publications Coordinator: Erin Shepherd Fax: (302) 831-8690 Associate Editor: Richard Bett Web: www.apaonline.org Meeting Coordinator: Linda Smallbrook Proceedings and Addresses of The American Philosophical Association, the major publication of The American Philosophical Association, is published five times each academic year in the months of September, November, January, February, and May. Each annual volume contains the programs for the meetings of the three Divisions; the membership list; Presidential Addresses; news of the Association, its Divisions and Committees, and announcements of interest to philosophers. Other items of interest to the community of philosophers may be included by decision of the Editor or the APA Board of Officers. -
9:30 - 11:00 SZB, Room 240
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE Department of Philosophy, UT, Austin Phil 332, Spring 2013 Unique Number 42755 T/TH: 9:30 - 11:00 SZB, Room 240 INSTRUCTOR Lawrence Ray Buchanan E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (512) 471-7396 Office: Waggener Hall 4th Floor Room # 416B Office hours: Tuesdays 11:30 – 12:30 COURSE SUMMARY The course focuses on various philosophical issues concerning language. Topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to, the following: speaker-meaning, conversational implicature, sentence/expression-meaning, reference, modality, and propositional attitude ascriptions. COURSE REQUIREMENTS Assignments: • Two 6-7 page papers on topics selected from a list of prompts given by instructor. The first of these papers will be worth 20% of the student’s final grade for the course; the second will be worth 25% of the grade for the course. • One in-class midterm worth 25% of the student’s final grade. • A take-home final exam worth 25% of the grade. • Class participation and attendance (5%). Regarding the *participation* component of your grade: I expect regular attendance and participation in our course. Moreover, I expect you to have read the material for lecture carefully in advance. However, should my expectations on either front fail to be met, I reserve the right to assign (short) in-class written assignments regarding the required reading for the day that will then be counted towards the participation component of your grade. Late work: I do not accept work after the due date without a valid documented excuse. Please Note: One of the principal aims of this course is to give students experience with writing in an academic discipline. -
A Bibliography on Event Semantics and Related Matters
A Bibliography on Event Semantics and Related Matters Events: Modification, Aspect and Lexical Meaning Cleo Condoravdi and Hana Filip LSA Institute Stanford July, 2007 References [1] Abusch, Dorit. 1985. On Verbs and Time. Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. [2] Abusch, Dorit. 1986. Verbs of Change, Causation, and Time. Technical Report CSLI-86-50, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. [3] Abusch, Dorit. 2005. Causatives and Mixed Aspectual Type. In Gregory N. Carlson and Francis J. Pelletier, eds., 29–61. [4] Abusch, Dorit and Mats Rooth. 1990. Temporal Adverbs and the English Perfect. NELS 20, 1–15. [5] Alexiadou Artemis, Monika Rathert and Arnim von Stechow (eds.). 2003. Perfect Explorations. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [6] Allen, James. 1983. Maintaining Knowledge about Temporal Intervals. CACM 26, 832–843. [7] Allen, James. 1984. Towards a General Theory of Action and Time. Arti- ficial Intelligence 23, 123–154. [8] Arregui, Ana. To appear. When aspect matters: the case of would- conditionals. Natural Language Semantics. [9] Artstein, Ron. 2006. Quantificational Arguments in Temporal Adjunct Clauses. Linguistics and Philosophy 28, 541–597. 1 [10] Asher, Nicholas. 1992. A Default, Truth Conditional Semantics for the Progressive. Linguistics and Philosophy 15, 463–508. [11] Asher, Nicholas. 1993. Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse. Dor- drecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. [12] Asher, Nicholas and Pierre Sablayrolles. 1995. A Typology and Discourse Semantics for Motion verbs and Spatial PPs in French. Journal of Seman- tics 12, 163–209. [13] Bach, Emmon. 1981. On Time, Tense, and Aspect: An Essay in English Metaphysics. In Peter Cole, ed., Radical Pragmatics, 63–81. -
The History of Formal Semantics, Going Beyond What I Know First-Hand
!"#$"##% Introduction ! “Semantics” can mean many different things, since there are many ways to be interested in “meaning”. One 20th century debate: how much common ground across logic, philosophy, and linguistics? The History of ! Formal semantics, which says “much!”, has been shaped over the last 40+ years by fruitful interdisciplinary collaboration among linguists, Formal Semantics philosophers, and logicians. ! In this talk I’ll reflect mainly on the development of formal semantics and to a lesser extent on formal pragmatics in linguistics and philosophy starting in the 1960’s. Barbara H. Partee ! I’ll describe some of the innovations and “big ideas” that have shaped the MGU, May 14, 2011 development of formal semantics and its relation to syntax and to (= Lecture 13, Formal Semantics Spec-kurs) pragmatics, and draw connections with foundational issues in linguistic theory, philosophy, and cognitive science. May 2011 MGU 2 Introduction “Semantics” can mean many different things ! I’m not trained as a historian of linguistics (yet) or of philosophy; what I know best comes from my experience as a graduate student of Chomsky’s ! “Semantics” used to mean quite different things to linguists in syntax at M.I.T. (1961-65), then as a junior colleague of Montague’s at and philosophers, not surprisingly, since different fields have UCLA starting in 1965, and then, after his untimely death in 1971, as one different central concerns. of a number of linguists and philosophers working to bring Montague’s " Philosophers of language have long been concerned with truth and semantics and Chomskyan syntax together, an effort that Chomsky reference, with logic, with how compositionality works, with how himself was deeply skeptical about. -
Representation and Deconstruction of Turkish German Stereotypes Through Gegen Die Wand and Kebab Connections
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Supervised Undergraduate Student Research Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects and Creative Work 5-2011 Representation and Deconstruction of Turkish German Stereotypes through Gegen die Wand and Kebab Connections Charli Celine Kerns [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj Part of the Other German Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Kerns, Charli Celine, "Representation and Deconstruction of Turkish German Stereotypes through Gegen die Wand and Kebab Connections" (2011). Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj/1428 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Supervised Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Work at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Representation and Deconstruction of Turkish German Stereotypes through Gegen die Wand and Kebab Connections Charli Kerns Honors Thesis submitted German Section of the Department Of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures College of Art and Sciences Introduction: When we as the audience watch a film, we step into a world overtly comprised of plot, climax, and resolution. However, in every film, cultural nuances covertly exist that repossess -
The Logica Yearbook
- -- - - -- - the logica yearbook 2006 - -- - - - --- the logica yearbook -- - 2006 Are concepts a priori? 1 2 Materna Are concepts a priori? 3 the logica yearbook 2006 4 Materna Are concepts a priori? 5 THE LOGICA YEARBOOK 2006 Edited by Ondřej Tomala and Radek Honzík FILOSOFIA Prague 2019 6 Materna Publication of the Logica Yearbook 2006 as well as the organisation of the Logica 2006 conference was supported by grant no. 401/04/0117 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. Published by , 2007 Institute of Philosophy Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague Edited by Ondřej Tomala and Radek Honzík Design and typesetting by Martin Pokorný Cover © Marta Bílková Copyright of the papers held by the individual authors, unless otherwise noted Printed by PB tisk Příbram, Czech Republic ISBN 978-80-7007-254-7 (print book) ISBN 978-80-7007-582-1 (e-book) DOI 10.47376/filosofia.2007.1 Are concepts a priori? 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS A PREFACE .................................................... 9 Francesco Belardinelli COUNTERPART SEMANTICS FOR QUANTIFIED MODAL LOGIC ............... 11 Alexandre Costa-Leite COMBINING MODAL CONCEPTS: PHILOSOPHICAL APPLICATIONS ............. 23 Marie Duží THE USE-MENTION DISTINCTION .................................... 33 Antonín Dvořák and Vilém Novák FUZZY TYPE THEORY AS A TOOL FOR LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS ................ 51 María J. Frápolli WHAT IS A LOGICAL CONSTANT? THE INFERENCE-MARKER VIEW ............ 63 Brian Hill “REALISTIC” BELIEF DYNAMICS ..................................... 77 Bjørn Jespersen SIX WAYS OF KNOWING WHETHER .................................. 93 John T. Kearns RECAPTURING THE EPISTEMIC DIMENSION OF LOGIC ..................... 105 Katarzyna Kijania-Placek ON CIRCULAR ACCEPTANCE ....................................... 117 Vojtěch Kolman LOGICISM AND THE RECURSION THEOREM ............................. 127 Arnold Koslow A TALE OF twO SCHEMATA: TARSKIAN (FINITARY) TRUTH AND RAMSEYAN MENTAL STATES ................................... -
'Verbs of Change, Causation, and Time'. Center for the Study of Language and Information Report No
REFERENCES Abusch, Dorit. 1986. 'Verbs of Change, Causation, and Time'. Center for the Study of Language and Information Report No. 86-50. Stanford University. Aksu, A. A. 1978. Aspect and Modality in the Child's Acquisition ofthe Turkish Past Tense. Ph.D dissertation, University of California at Berkeley. Antinucci, F., and R. Miller. 1976. 'How Children Talk ab out What Happened'. Journal of Child Language 3, 167-189. Asher, Nicholas. 1986. 'Belief in Discourse Representation Theory'. Journal of Philosophical Logic 15, 127-189. Asher, Nicholas. Forthcoming. Abstract Objects, Semanties, and Anaphora. Asher, Nicholas and Hajime Wada. 1988. 'A Computational Account of Syntactic, Semantic and Discourse Principles far Anaphora Resolution'. Journal of Semantics 309-344. Austin, John. 1961. Philosophical Papers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Axelrod, Melissa. 1990. The Koyukon language. Ph.D Dissertation, University of Alaska. Bach, Emmon. 1980. 'Tenses and aspects as functions on verb-phrases'. In C. Rohrer (ed.), Time, Tense and Quantifiers. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. Bach, Emmon. 1986. 'The Algebra of Events'. Linguistics and Philosophy 9.1, 5-16. 437 438 REFERENCES Bach, Emmon. In press. 'The Metaphysics of Natural Language'. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Baker, C. L. 1989. The Syntax ofEnglish. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Bakhtin, M. M. 1981. Translated by Emerson, C., and M. Holquist. The Dialogic Imagination. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. Banfield, Ann. 1981. Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction. Boston imd London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua. 1954. 'Indexical Expressions' . Mind 63, 359-376. Bauer, G. -
Integration Complexity and the Order of Cosisters
Integration complexity and the order of cosisters William Dyer Oracle Corp [email protected] Abstract subjectivity (Scontras et al., 2017); (2) a bi- The cost of integrating dependent constituents nary hierarchy based on features such as rel- to their heads is thought to involve the distance ative/absolute (Sproat and Shih, 1991), stage- between dependent and head and the complex- /individual-level (Larson, 1998), or direct/indirect ity of the integration (Gibson, 1998). The for- (Cinque, 2010); or (3) a multi-category hierarchy mer has been convincingly addressed by De- of intensional/subsective/intersective (Kamp and pendency Distance Minimization (DDM) (cf. Partee, 1995; Partee, 2007; Truswell, 2009), re- Liu et al., 2017). The current study addresses inforcer/epithet/descriptor/classifier (Feist, 2012), the latter by proposing a novel theory of in- tegration complexity derived from the entropy and perhaps most famously, semantic features of the probability distribution of a dependent’s such as size/shape/color/nationality (Quirk et al., heads. An analysis of Universal Dependency 1985; Scott, 2002). Similarly, prepositional corpora provides empirical evidence regard- phrases and adverbials have been held to fol- ing the preferred order of isomorphic cosis- low a hierarchy based on manner/place/time ters—sister constituents of the same syntactic (Boisson, 1981; Cinque, 2001) or thematic roles form on the same side of their head—such as such as evidential/temporal/locative (Schweikert, the adjectives in pretty blue fish. Integration 2004). While these models may be reasonably complexity, alongside DDM, allows for a gen- eral theory of constituent order based on inte- accurate—though see Hawkins(2000); Truswell gration cost. -
Inferentialism and Semantic Externalism A
Final draft. Online version available in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2020.1801380 Inferentialism and Semantic Externalism A Neglected Debate between Sellars and Putnam* Takaaki Matsui (the University of Tokyo) Submitted on October 29, 2019; Accepted on July 23, 2020. [Abstract] In his 1975 paper “The Meaning of ‘Meaning,’” Hilary Putnam famously argued for semantic externalism. Little attention has been paid, however, to the fact that already in 1973, Putnam had presented the idea of the linguistic division of labor and the Twin Earth thought experiment in his comment on Wilfrid Sellars’s “Meaning as Functional Classification” at a conference, and Sellars had replied to Putnam from a broadly inferentialist perspective. The first half of this paper aims to trace the development of Putnam’s semantic externalism, situate his debate with Sellars in it, and reconstruct the two arguments he presented against Sellars. The second half of this paper aims to reconstruct how Sellars replied to Putnam. I argue that Sellars not only accepts the social character of language but also suggests how inferentialists can accommodate the contribution of the world. Sellars’s key idea is that substance terms have a “promissory note aspect” which is to be cashed out in a successor conceptual framework. I reconstruct Sellars’s position as ideal successor externalism, and compare it with temporal externalism. * This paper was submitted when I was a visiting fellow at the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS). Thanks to the TiLPS for providing a visiting fellowship and a wonderful research environment. -
Stephen Neale, Facing Facts, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001, Xv + 254 Pp
Stephen Neale, Facing Facts, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001, xv + 254 pp. Reviewed by Jaroslav Peregrin, Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected]. It is now often taken for granted that facts are entia non grata, for there exists a powerful argument (dubbed the slingshot), which is backed by such great names as Frege or Gödel or Davidson (and so could hardly be wrong), that discredits their existence. There indeed is such an argument, and it indeed is not wrong on the straightforward sense of wrong. However, in how far it knocks down any conception of facts is another story, a story which is anything but simple and perspicuous. In his book, Stephen Neale takes pains to excavate the origins of the argument and the presuppositions which it needs to be usable for the purpose of exorcising facts. In the introduction of the book, Neale expresses his conviction that his analysis of the slingshot will not only compromise its usability for the purpose of discrediting facts, but also save representationalist conceptions of language and mind from the attacks of the anti- representationalist philosophers like Davidson and Rorty. „Representational philosophy,“ he claims, „survives the Davidson-Rorty onslaught because non-truth-functional logics and ontologies of facts, states of affairs, situations and propositions survive not only the actual arguments deployed against them, but also the most precise and powerful slingshot arguments that can be constructed.“ However, what he does take his analyses to show is that „the most precise and powerful slingshot arguments demonstrate conclusively that the logical and ontological theories originally targeted must satisfy non-trivial conditions if they are to avoid logical or ontological collapse.“ (P. -
Review of "Bertrand Russell De La Logique À La Politique", Special Issue of Herm
Reviews 103 A FRENCH PERSPECTIVE ON RUSSELL ALASDAIR URQUHART Philosophy / University ofToronto Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S IAI Bertrand Russell de fa logique a fa politique. Hermes. NO.7 (1990). Paris: Edi tions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Pp. ii, 303. 8sE he new journal Hermes, which first appeared in 1988, bears the subtitle T "Cognition, Communication, Politique" and has set itself the admirable goal of introducing French readers to analytic philosophy, theories of ethics, and systems theory, in order to rescue internal French debate from the bog in which it is stuck. The publication of the present volume, containing a varied 104 Reviews Reviaus 105 collection of essays on both the technical and political writings of Russell, opens with an admirable essay by Alan Ryan; this is not a summary of his testifies to increasing French interest in Russell, an interest shown also in the recent book, but a clearly written critical discussion of the philosophical recent publication of a collection of Russell's writings on philosophical logic background of Russell's political writings, his ambivalence towards pacifism, (introduced and translated by J. M.. Roy), and of new translations (by Fran and his relationship with his public. Adam Stephenson expresses dissatisfac rrois Rivenc) of The Problems ofPhilosophy and Introduction to Mathematical tion that Russell never produced his grand work of Hegelian synthesis; this Philosophy. failure is blamed on Russell's atomism and individualism, which leave man a The first part of the collection is devoted to philosophy and logic. In the "metaphysical orphan". Dominique Colas provides a brief and sympathetic opening section of this part, on logic and ontology, Philippe de Rouilhan note on Russell's trip to the Soviet Union. -
Putnam and Davidson on Coherence, Truth, and Justification
The Science of Mind (精神科学) 54 (2016), pp. 51-70. Putnam and Davidson on Coherence, Truth, and Justification Lajos L. Brons Nihon University In the early 1980s both Donald Davidson and Hilary Putnam defended theories that superficially appear to be coherence theories of truth, but that upon closer inspection turn out to be better understood as coherence theories of justification (or perhaps, not as coherence theories at all). In Reason, Truth and History (1981a), Putnam argued that “truth is an idealization of rational acceptability” (55), and that rational acceptability of statements is their “coherence and fit” (id.). And in the same year Davidson gave a talk that would be published two years later as “A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge” (1983) in which he defended “what may as well be called a coherence theory of truth and knowledge” (137). There are more interesting similarities between Putnam’s and Davidson’s theories than their closeness in dates of birth, however, and in later work Putnam’s theory further converged with Davidson’s. Furthermore, the most conspicuous difference – the role and nature of “conceptual schemes” – turns out to be smaller and more subtle than it may seem at a first glance. This paper introduces Putnam’s and Davidson’s coherence theories, and discusses the most important differences and similarities. The following two sections summarize “middle” Putnam’s and Davidson’s coherence theories respectively. The two sections after that look into the apparent disagreement on the possibility of different conceptual schemes, and discuss further developments in Putnam’s view and the consequent convergence of Putnam’s and Davidson’s coherentisms.