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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/notes-on-assertion-and-predict
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SUMMARY:Notes on assertion and prediction
DESCRIPTION:extra sessionJohn MacFarlane\, in his celebrated &lsquo\;Future
  contingents and relative truth&rsquo\; (2003)\, revisited Aristotle&rsquo
 \;s discussion about future contingents\, truth\, time and propositional c
 ontent to argue for doubly relativized propositions\, i.e. propositions wh
 ose truth is relative to their context of utterance as well as to their co
 ntext of assessment. Without discussing other merits of MacFarlane&rsquo\;
 s relativism\, I will show how his argument about future contingents loses
  much of its appeal when it is assessed via the speech act-theoretic notio
 ns of propositional content and direction of fit. I will also sketch an ac
 count of predictions (utterances of declarative sentences about future con
 tingents) that makes justice to the two sorts of intuitions that motivated
  MacFarlane&rsquo\;s discussion:&nbsp\;(a) the determinacy intuition\, acc
 ording to which a prediction has a definite truth-value\, as it may share 
 its propositional content with assertions about the present or the past\;&
 nbsp\;(b) the indeterminacy intuition\, according to which a prediction do
 es not have a definite truth- value\, given that the future is indetermina
 te or open.&nbsp\;Unlike MacFarlane&rsquo\;s\, my account does not require
  to give up truth-conditionally complete (non-relative) propositional cont
 ents\, but\, making a significant amendment to Searle&#39\;s speech act th
 eory\, it will tell assertions and predictions apart as speech acts with d
 ifferent direction of fit and\, hence\, different propositional content co
 nditions. It turns out that\, at the time of utterance\, predictions often
  lack&nbsp\;referential&nbsp\;truth-conditions and only have &nbsp\;uttera
 nce-bound&nbsp\;truth-conditions.    
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia UB
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