Truthmaking, Semantical Grounding, and Paradoxes


Date
August 22, 2022 — August 23, 2022
Location
Hepple Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol

This workshop is hosted by the ERC-Starting Grant ‘Truth and Semantics’ (TRUST 803684) at the University of Bristol directed by Johannes Stern in collaboration with Johannes Korbmacher (University of Utrecht).

Confirmed Speakers

  • Beatrice Buonaguidi (KCL)
  • Michael Glanzberg (Rutgers)
  • Johannes Korbmacher (Utrecht)
  • Simone Picenni (Bristol)
  • Martin Pleitz (Münster)
  • Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)
  • Bruno Whittle (Madison)
  • Steve Yablo (MIT)

Registration

If you wish to attend the conference please send an email to Simone Picenni with the following information:

  1. Your name.
  2. Whether you want a catered lunch both days, and whether you have any dietary requirements.

Programme

Day 1

  • 10:30: Conference opening

  • 11:00 - 12:15 Martin Pleitz (Münster): Make Truths, not Paradox

  • 12:15 - 13:30: Lunch

  • 13:30 - 14:45: Lorenzo Rossi (Turin): Trivalent conditionals: certain, uncertain, counterfactual

  • 14:45 - 15:00 Coffee

  • 15:00 - 16:15 Bruno Whittle (Madison): Ground of Truth

  • 16:15 - 16:30: Coffee

  • 16:30 - 17:45: Steve Yablo (MIT): Traps Set by Topics (online)

Day 2

  • 10:00 - 11:15 Beatrice Buonaguidi (KCL): Symmetry, locality and hyperintensionality

  • 11:15 - 11:30 Coffee

  • 11:30 - 12:45 Johannes Korbmacher (Utrecht): On the algebra of exact truthmaking propositions

  • 12:45: Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:15 Simone Picenni (Bristol): A model for self-applicable exact truthmaking

  • 15:15-15:30 Coffee

  • 15:30 - 16:45 Michael Glanzberg (Rutgers): Truth-makers in formal theories of truth

Contact

For all further questions about the conference please contact Simone Picenni.