Presentation

Semantics Reading Group

This reading group’s main aim is the discussion of classic and recent papers concerned with the nature of semantic values and with the arguments for specific types of such values proposed by philosophers and linguists.

Institut Jean Nicod, Pavillon, Salle de réunion, 29, rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris

Readings:

First session, October 22: Clas Weber,
"Eternalism and Propositional Multitasking: In Defence of the Operator Argument"

Second session, October 29: Patrick Butlin & Emanuel Viebahn:
"What’s in a That-Clause?"

Third session, November 6: Gareth Evans,
"Does Tense Logic Rest upon a Mistake?"

Fourth session, November 12: Jonathan Schaffer,
"Necessitarain Propositions"