Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Localism and globalism in logic and semantics

Duration: 2016 - 2020

Code: FFI2015-70707P

Principal Investigator

Genoveva Martí (genoveva_marti@yahoo.com)

All researchers

José Martínez (U. Barcelona)
Genoveva Martí (ICREA-UB)
Sergi Oms (U. Barcelona)
Pilar Terrés

Genoveva Martí (co-IP)

José Martínez Fernández (co-IP)

Michael Devitt

Mario Gómez Torrente

Sergi Oms

Pilar Terrés

Jordi Valor

Gabriel Uzquiano

Elia Zardini

Joost Joosten

Summary

Principal investigators: Genoveva Marti, José Martínez

 

The general aim of this project is to study whether non-unitary explanations are required in order to account for reference, truth and logical consequence. We will focus especially on the relationships between phenomena of the three kinds. Our hypothesis is that different domains of discourse demand different theoretical explanations, both in logic and in semantics, so we defend a form of logical and semantic localism.
 
Specific objectives:

 

1) To study solutions to the challenge of specifying how to reason correctly on the basis of premises that belong to domains with different local semantics and logics.
2) To investigate the logics adequate to solve semantic paradoxes and their application to other philosophical issues, in particular their application to problems generated by normative and legal discourse.
3) To study the different mechanisms of reference determination for proper names, demonstratives, predicates, gradable adjectives and quantificational expressions in their referential uses.
4) To discuss the structure of the dialectic between Fregean or descriptive theories and theories of direct reference. Although both are taken to be essentially monistic, we will argue that direct reference theories are not incompatible with localism.
5) To present criticisms to monistic proposals that treat proper names as predicates.
6) To establish connections between pluralist theories of truth and other forms of pluralism.

Amount awarded: 53,351€ and a predoctoral FPI scholarship.

Publications

  • Genoveva Martí, Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña. 2021

    Tolerance, Flexibility and the application of kind terms.

    Synthese,198: 2973-2986

    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01898-9

  • Sergi Oms, Elia Zardini. 2021

    Inclosure and Intolerance

    Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 62: 201-220.

  • Genoveva Martí. 2020

    Names, Descriptions and Causal Descriptions. Is the Magic Gone?

    Topoi 39: 357-365

    DOI. 10.1007/s11245-017-9525-1

  • Genoveva Martí, Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña. 2020

    On whales and fish. Two models of interpretation.

    Jurisprudence, 11 (1): 63-75.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2019.1699351

  • Genoveva Martí, Carl Hoefer. 2020

    Realism, reference and perspective

    European Journal for Philosophy of Science 10(3) 38

  • Genoveva Martí, José Martínez-Fernández. 2020

    Natural kind terms and rigidity

    S. Biggs & H. Giersson (eds.): The Routledge Handbook on Linguistic Reference. Routledge: 283-294.

  • Genoveva Martí. 2020

    Experimental semantics, descriptivism and anti-descriptivism. Should we endorse referential pluralism?

    A. Bianchi (ed.): Language and Reality from a Naturalistic Perspective. Springer Verlag, pp. 329-341.

  • Sergi Oms. 2020

    Minimalism, Supervaluations and Fixed Points 

    Synthese, 197: 139-153.

  • Sergi Oms. 2020

    A Remark on Probabilistic Measures of Coherence

    Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 61: 192-140.

  • Sergi Oms, Elia Zardini. 2019

    An Introduction to the Sorites Paradox

    in S. Oms and E. Zardini (eds.) The Sorites Paradox, 3-18.

  • Sergi Oms. 2019

    The Sorites Paradox in Philosophy of Logic

    in S. Oms and E. Zardini (eds.) The Sorites Paradox, 189-206.

  • Sergi Oms. 2019

    Minimalism, Dispositions and the Contingent Liar

    in O. Pombo, A. Pato and J. Redmond (eds.) Epistemologia, Lógica e Linguagem. Lisboa: CFCUL.

  • Sergi Oms, Elia Zardini. 2019

    The Sorites Paradox

    Oms, Sergi and Zardini, Elia (eds.). Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

  • Sergi Oms. 2018

    Conceivability, Minimalism and the Generalization Problem  

    Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 58: 287-97.

  • Genoveva Martí. 2017

    Names, predicates and the object-property distinction.

    M. de Ponte and K. Korta (eds.): Reference and Representation in Thought and Language. Oxford University Press, pp. 14-19.

  • Genoveva Martí, José Martínez-Fernández. 2017

    Editors' introduction. Special issue of Teorema on Experimental Philosophy

  • Sergi Oms. 2017

    Articulation and Liars

    Disputatio, 9(46): 383-99.