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SUMMARY:Metametaphysics and Semantics
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LOCATION:Via Giuseppe Buffi 13\, Lugano\, Switzerland\, 6900
DESCRIPTION:Timothy Williamson (Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University) will give an online talk presenting an original view on Metametaphysics and Semantics on June 10 at 6pm (CET).<br>The talk will be chaired by Francesco Berto (Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews and visiting professor at USI) .<br>Title of the talk: &lsquo\;Metametaphysics and Semantics&rsquo\;.\nThe talk will be held both on Zoom and Facebook. To receive the link to the Zoom meeting\, you can either send a message to our Facebook page or write an email to amm.map@usi.ch. Join us!<br>Have a look at the abstract of the talk:\nIntensional semantics threatens to trivialize metaphysics by making all sentences expressing necessary truths\, including trivial tautologies\, express the same proposition. This threat can be found in Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s Tractatus and in more recent work by Stalnaker and Hirsch. It is quite different from epistemologically sourced critiques of metaphysics such as the logical positivists&rsquo\;. Hyperintensional responses invoking Russellian propositions\, Fregean thoughts\, impossible worlds\, or other devices do not get to the root of the problem\; nor do metalinguistic reinterpretations of metaphysical claims. The basic problem is not specific to necessary and impossible propositions. It is that matters of cognitive significance such as triviality and non-triviality are irreducibly sensitive to the vehicles of content (e.g. sentences in contexts) as well as to the contents themselves. Fine-grained accounts of metaphysical inquiry must therefore track vehicles as well as contents. Scapegoating intensional semantics is a misdiagnosis.\nThis talk is part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia - a series of events organised by:<br>- Master in Philosophy at USI<br>- Ratio - philosophical association&nbsp\;<br>- Istituto di Studi Filosofici\, Lugano&nbsp\;
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