Dear All, Tomorrow (22nd November) Vann McGee, from MIT, will give a talk entitled ''Or''. An abstract is attached below.
The meeting will start at 5.15pm and will be held in the Fisher Building of St. John's College in either the Boys Smith Room, the Dirac Room, or the Castlereagh Room. As usual, the speaker will present for no longer than 45 minutes, followed by a discussion until 7.00pm. If you would like to join Vann for dinner after the talk, then please let me know by noon tomorrow Regards, Daniel Brigham Secretary of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge *** Naturalized semantics requires that the semantic values of expressions be grounded in speaker usage. (The main rival approach, disquotationalism, has no such requirement.) According to naturalized semantics, there are situations in which the disjunction, "Carlos is rich or nearly so," is true even though neither disjunct is. A compositional semantics that accommodates this postulates degrees of truth intermediate between truth and falsity. Good inferences have not only to take true premises to true conclusions, but to take nearly true premises to conclusions that are at least as nearly true. The semantics of "or" is grounded in usage, it is argued, because its meaning is given by the rules of inference. _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
