We invite those interested to take part in the Reading Group on Multipropositionalism, jointly organized by Claudia Picazo (UNED) and Laura Delgado (LanCog – University of Lisbon). Our tentative time slot would be Thursdays at 12pm CET and the first meeting would be on October 14th. Thereafter we will meet on alternate Thursdays for about 5 sessions in total – see tentative schedule and readings below. The group will be held online.
We are happy to consider alternative time slots that will fit better the participant’s schedules. If you are interested in joining us (or have any other question, or suggestion) please send us an email (claudia.picazo@gmail.com, or laqueveque@edu.ulisboa.pt).
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Tentative Schedule
14.10.21 Davies, Alex (forthcoming). ‘A (contingent) content-parthood analysis of indirect speech reports’. Mind and Language.
28.04.21 Viebahn, Emanuel (2019). Semantic Pluralism (chapter 4). Frankfurt, Germany: Klostermann.
11.11.21 TBA
25.11.21 TBA
09.12.21 TBA
Possible Readings
. Clapp, Lenny & Lavalle Terrón, Armando (2019). ‘Multipropositionalism and Necessary a Posteriori identity Statements’. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 100 (4):902-934.
. Corazza, Eros (2012). ‘Same‐Saying, Pluri‐Propositionalism, and Implicatures’. Mind and Language 27 (5):546-569.
. Diaz-Legaspe, Justina; Liu, Chang & Stainton, Robert J. (2020). ‘Slurs and register: A case study in meaning pluralism’. Mind and Language 35 (2):156-182.
. Grzankowski, Alex & Buchanan, Ray (forthcoming). ‘Content Pluralism’. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
. Nowak, Ethan & Michaelson, Eliot (forthcoming). ‘Meta-Metasemantics, or the Quest for the One True Metasemantics’. Philosophical Quarterly.
. Michaelson, Eliot (forthcoming). ‘Speaker’s Reference, Semantic Reference, Sneaky Reference’. Mind and Language
. Murday, Brendan (2014). ‘Definite Descriptions and Semantic Pluralism’. Philosophical Papers 43 (2):255-284.
. Sullivan, Arthur (2013). ‘Multiple propositions, contextual variability, and the semantics/pragmatics interface’. Synthese 190 (14):2773-2800.
. Stojanovic, Isidora (no date). ‘Two Problems of Overgeneration for the Reflexive-Referential Theory’.
Abstract: Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the view that in perception, subjects bear an epistemically significant cognitive relation directly to particulars that is importantly different from thinking truths about a particular. Some call this relation ‘acquaintance.’ A question in the theory of acquaintance is whether the relation can be naturalized—that is, whether we can account for its nature relying exclusively on the objects and relations countenanced by the natural sciences. I propose to make some progress on this question by examining acquaintance’s normative profile. By ‘normative profile,’ I mean the characterization of acquaintance presupposed by our evaluative judgments about the relation. I argue, first, that acquaintance seems to exhibit intrinsic epistemic value. Moreover, acquaintance appears valuable for a singular subject and in virtue of the unmediated cognitive contact with a perceived object it affords. Finally, in being epistemically good for the subject in this way, the acquaintance relation ‘stands out’ from relations in its vicinity. A naturalistic reduction of acquaintance (and perception, more generally) fails to preserve these evaluatively apparent characteristics of acquaintance. Acquaintance, naturalized, puts the perceived object at a distance from an essentially disunified subject, and the relation seems one among many similar relations. Hence, if perception/acquaintance must be naturalized, we must accept not just that our intuitions about acquaintance are illusory, but that our situation is not as valuable (or valuable in the same way) as our epistemic intuitions present it as being.