Duration: 2016 - 2020
Code: FFI2015-70707P
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
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.
Genoveva Martí, Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña. 2021
Synthese,198: 2973-2986
Sergi Oms, Elia Zardini. 2021
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 62: 201-220.
Genoveva Martí. 2020
Topoi 39: 357-365
DOI. 10.1007/s11245-017-9525-1
Genoveva Martí, Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña. 2020
Jurisprudence, 11 (1): 63-75.
Genoveva Martí, Carl Hoefer. 2020
European Journal for Philosophy of Science 10(3) 38
Genoveva Martí, José Martínez-Fernández. 2020
S. Biggs & H. Giersson (eds.): The Routledge Handbook on Linguistic Reference. Routledge: 283-294.
Genoveva Martí. 2020
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
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 61: 192-140.
Sergi Oms, Elia Zardini. 2019
in S. Oms and E. Zardini (eds.) The Sorites Paradox, 3-18.
Sergi Oms. 2019
in S. Oms and E. Zardini (eds.) The Sorites Paradox, 189-206.
Sergi Oms. 2019
in O. Pombo, A. Pato and J. Redmond (eds.) Epistemologia, Lógica e Linguagem. Lisboa: CFCUL.
Sergi Oms, Elia Zardini. 2019
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
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
Sergi Oms. 2017
Disputatio, 9(46): 383-99.