DAN ZEMAN
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​My research focuses on the semantics of what can be called "subjective" or "perspectival" expressions - predicates of taste, aesthetic predicates, moral terms, epistemic modals etc. I'm involved in the contemporary debate between contextualism and relativism about the aforementioned expressions, defending a version of the latter. I'm also interested in the semantics of epistemic vocabulary ("know" etc.), locational expressions, tenses and temporal adverbs. Theories of speaker meaning and methodological issues such as the status of certain arguments (e.g., "the argument from binding", "the argument from disagreement" etc.) in current semantic debates are among my interests too. Recently, I became interested in the semantics of slurs and gender terms.


INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

Semantic Relativism about Perspectival Expressions: A Reassessment and Defense (UMO-2019/33/B/HS1/01269)
University of Warsaw, 2020-2023

Disagreement and the Semantics of Perspectival Expressions (M2226-G24)
University of Vienna, 2017-2019

The Semantics of Perspectival Expressions (JCI-2012-12974)
University of the Basque Country, 2014-2017

A Temporalist Approach to Tenses and Temporal Expressions (2010 BP_A2 0005)
Pompeu Fabra University, 2013-2014

Perspectivality in Natural Language (2010 BP_A 00328)
Institut Jean Nicod, 2011-2013
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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS

​Slovak-Austrian Philosophy of Language Network
(S.A.I.A. Initiative Project 2019-10-15-007)
Slovak Academy of Sciences & University of Vienna, 2021 


PARTICIPATION IN OTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS

Foundations and Methods of Natural Language Semantics (FFI2016-80636-P)
University of Barcelona, 2017-2019; PI: Josep Macia 

Lexical Meaning and Concepts 
(FFI2014-52196-P)
University of the Basque Country, 2014-2017; PI: Agustin Vicente

Naturalism, Expressivism and Normativity (FFI2013-44836-P)
University of Granada, 2014-2017; PI: Maria-Jose Frapolli

Semantic Content and Conversational Dynamics (FFI2012-37658)
University of Barcelona, 2013-2015; PI: Max Kölbel

Context-dependence, Perspective and Relativity
Institut Jean Nicod, 2011-2013; PI: François Recanati


PERSP - Philosophy of Perspectival Thoughts and Facts (CSD2009-00056)
University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University, University of Girona, University of Valencia, 2009-2014; PI: Manuel García-Carpintero

The Determination of Reference (FFI2008-04263/FISO)
University of Barcelona, 2009-2011; PI: Genoveva Marti

Foundations of Semantics: Non-Factual and Non-Representational Aspects of Meaning (HUM2005-00761)
University of Barcelona, 2007-2008; PI: Genoveva Marti


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  • Home
  • Research
  • Publications
  • Talks
  • Teaching
  • Activities
  • MUSIC
  • Contact
  • OPUS 17 project
  • Syntactic Arguments in the C/R Debate Seminar
  • Syntactic Arguments in the C/R Debate Workshop
  • Lectures on Switcher Semantics