SEMINAR ON SYNTACTIC ARGUMENTS IN THE CONTEXTUALISM/RELATIVISM DEBATE
Mondays, 14:30-15:45 (CET)
Online
This is a biweekly seminar pertaining to my project Semantic Relativism about Perspectival Expressions: A Reassessment and Defense (OPUS 17 project no. 2019/33/B/HS1/01269) that focuses on various arguments in the debate between contextualism and relativism about perspectival expressions (predicates of taste, aesthetic adjectives, moral terms, epistemic modals etc.) of a syntactic nature: licensing, binding, anaphora, control, sluicing, various embeddings, the "operator argument" etc.
The meetings are dedicated to reading and discussing papers dealing with such issues. We will both read original formulations of the arguments and responses to it, with the aim of assessing their dialectical efficacy. In addition, authors of new papers/work-in-progress will discuss their material with us (subject to availability).
Schedule and readings
NOVEMBER 3
Jonathan Schaffer, “Perspective in Taste Predicates and Epistemic Modals”, in A. Egan and B. Weatherson (Eds.), Epistemic Modality, Oxford University Press, pp. 179–226, 2011 (part 1).
NOVEMBER 17
Jonathan Schaffer, “Perspective in Taste Predicates and Epistemic Modals”, in A. Egan and B. Weatherson (Eds.), Epistemic Modality, Oxford University Press, pp. 179–226, 2011 (part 2).
NOVEMBER 24
Eric Snyder, “Binding, Genericity, and Predicates of Personal Taste”, Inquiry, 56, 278-306, 2013.
JANUARY 26
John Collins, "The Syntax of Personal Taste", Philosophical Perspectives, 27, 55-103, 2013 (part 1).
FEBRUARY 10
John Collins, "The Syntax of Personal Taste", Philosophical Perspectives, 27, 55-103, 2013 (part 2).
MARCH 13
Peter Lasersohn, "Quantification and Perspective in Relativist Semantics", Philosophical Perspectives, 22, 305-337, 2008.
APRIL 3
Michael Glanzberg, "Judges, Experiencers, and Taste", Inquiry, DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2135876
APRIL 24
David Lewis, “Index, Context, and Content”, in S. Kanger & S. Ohman (Eds.), Philosophy and Grammar, Dordrecht, 79–100, 1980.
David Kaplan, “Demonstratives”, in J. Almog, J. Perry & H. Wettstein (Eds.), Themes from Kaplan, Oxford University Press, pp. 481-563, 1989 (excerpts).
Max Kölbel, "The Evidence for Relativism”, Synthese, 166, 375-394, 2009 (excerpts).
MAY 8
Dan Zeman, "Experiencer Phrases, Predicates of Personal Taste and Relativism: On Cappelen and Hawthorne's Critique of the Operator Argument", Croatian Journal of Philosophy, XIII, 375-398, 2013.
SEMINAR ON SYNTACTIC ARGUMENTS IN THE CONTEXTUALISM/RELATIVISM DEBATE
Mondays, 14:30-15:45 (CET)
Online
This is a biweekly seminar pertaining to my project Semantic Relativism about Perspectival Expressions: A Reassessment and Defense (OPUS 17 project no. 2019/33/B/HS1/01269) that focuses on various arguments in the debate between contextualism and relativism about perspectival expressions (predicates of taste, aesthetic adjectives, moral terms, epistemic modals etc.) of a syntactic nature: licensing, binding, anaphora, control, sluicing, various embeddings, the "operator argument" etc.
The meetings are dedicated to reading and discussing papers dealing with such issues. We will both read original formulations of the arguments and responses to it, with the aim of assessing their dialectical efficacy. In addition, authors of new papers/work-in-progress will discuss their material with us (subject to availability).
Schedule and readings
NOVEMBER 3
Jonathan Schaffer, “Perspective in Taste Predicates and Epistemic Modals”, in A. Egan and B. Weatherson (Eds.), Epistemic Modality, Oxford University Press, pp. 179–226, 2011 (part 1).
NOVEMBER 17
Jonathan Schaffer, “Perspective in Taste Predicates and Epistemic Modals”, in A. Egan and B. Weatherson (Eds.), Epistemic Modality, Oxford University Press, pp. 179–226, 2011 (part 2).
NOVEMBER 24
Eric Snyder, “Binding, Genericity, and Predicates of Personal Taste”, Inquiry, 56, 278-306, 2013.
JANUARY 26
John Collins, "The Syntax of Personal Taste", Philosophical Perspectives, 27, 55-103, 2013 (part 1).
FEBRUARY 10
John Collins, "The Syntax of Personal Taste", Philosophical Perspectives, 27, 55-103, 2013 (part 2).
MARCH 13
Peter Lasersohn, "Quantification and Perspective in Relativist Semantics", Philosophical Perspectives, 22, 305-337, 2008.
APRIL 3
Michael Glanzberg, "Judges, Experiencers, and Taste", Inquiry, DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2135876
APRIL 24
David Lewis, “Index, Context, and Content”, in S. Kanger & S. Ohman (Eds.), Philosophy and Grammar, Dordrecht, 79–100, 1980.
David Kaplan, “Demonstratives”, in J. Almog, J. Perry & H. Wettstein (Eds.), Themes from Kaplan, Oxford University Press, pp. 481-563, 1989 (excerpts).
Max Kölbel, "The Evidence for Relativism”, Synthese, 166, 375-394, 2009 (excerpts).
MAY 8
Dan Zeman, "Experiencer Phrases, Predicates of Personal Taste and Relativism: On Cappelen and Hawthorne's Critique of the Operator Argument", Croatian Journal of Philosophy, XIII, 375-398, 2013.