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Universitat de Barcelona

I was born in 1975. I got my B.A. in Philosophy from Universitatea de Vest (University of the West), Timisoara, Romania. Currently a PhD student both at the Central European University, Budapest, Department of Philosophy and at the Universitat de Barcelona, Department de Logic, History and Philosophy of Science.

Interests

Philosophy of Language, Formal Semantics, Epistemology

Thesis Information

The topic of my PhD thesis is the semantics of what Frege called “incomplete contents”.  My aim is to make sense of the claim that they are semantically useful entities and to show that they play a significant role in explaining understanding and action. This is also related with a thesis that I’m particularly fond of: truth-relativism (which is my PhD topic at the Central European University). The truth of truth-relativism would be supported by a claim to the effect that we need “incomplete contents” – so that’s another reason why I study them.

Selection of Publications

'“Relativism vs. Indexicalism: Facing the Intuitions”, Annals of the West University of Timisoara. New Series: Philosophy and Communication Sciences, Vol. XVIII, 2006, pp.83-92.

“Relativism and Alethic Functionalism”, Organon F, Vol. XIV, No.1, 2007, pp.53-71. (Click here [link: http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/organon/view_author_en.php?author_id=zeman_d] for an abstract.)

“Overcoming the Obstacles to the Relativity of Truth”, Organon F, Vol. XIV, No.2, 2007, pp.232-241.

“Context Sensitivity: Indexicalism, Contextualism, Relativism”, in B. Kokinov et al. (Eds.), Modeling and Using Context, 2007, pp.545-557. (You can download the paper here [link: http://www.springerlink.com/content/141280072628u2t7/]

(For more information about my academic life, here is my CV [attached])

Curriculum Vitae

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Contact

Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència
Universitat de Barcelona
Montalegre, 6-8, 4ª planta, porta 4090
08001 Barcelona

E-mails: dan_zeman AT yahoo.com, fprzed01 AT phd.ceu.hu