Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy
Worlds and Truth Values: Challenges to Formal Semantics (MUNVAL)
Duration: 2020 - 2024
Code: 2019PID-107667GB-I00
Principal Investigator
All researchers
Genoveva Martí (ICREA-UB)José Martínez (U. Barcelona)
Carlos Benito
Sergi Oms (U. Barcelona)
Marcelino Botín (U. Barcelona)
Joost Josten (UB)
Jordi Valor (U València)
Elia Zardini (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Summary
Possible-worlds semantics and many-valued semantics are two powerful formal tools that have traditionally been used to model important semantic and logical phenomena. In spite of their success, it has been argued that both tools do not suffice to express adequately the complexity of those phenomena. Our main objective in this project is to explore the utility of both tools to address issues that have been taken to be out of their domain of application, in particular, the analysis of the representation of the necessity of theoretical statements in possible worlds semantics and the representation in many-valued semantics of fragments of discourse that contain semantic pathologies (due, for instance, to semantic paradoxes or to the presence of sentences that do not express complete propositions).
Amount awarded: 48,400€ and a predoctoral FPI scholarship.
Publications
Genoveva Martí, F. Contesi, E. Terrone, M. Campdelacreu, R. García-Moya. 2024
The problem of taste to the experimental test.
Analysis 84(2): 239-248.
Sergi Oms, José Martínez. 2024
The Many Faces of the Liar Paradox
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 28: 15-21.
Genoveva Martí. 2023
The semantics of natural kind terms. A critical reflection on experimental and theoretical issues.
Acta Philosophica Fennica, 100: 153-172
Sergi Oms. 2023
Some Remarks on the Notion of Paradox
Acta Analytica, 38: 211–228.
Sergi Oms, Marta Campdelacreu. 2023
Qua-Objects, (Non-)Derivative Properties and the Consistency of Hylomorphism
Metaphysica, 24: 323-338.
Sergi Oms. 2023
L’exercici de la ment oberta
Convivium, 36: 101-127.
Genoveva Martí. 2022
Reference and theories of reference
Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.): The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-265.
Genoveva Martí, José Martínez-Fernández. 2021
The representation of gappy sentences in four-valued semantics
Semiotica 2021(240): 145-163
Sergi Oms, Elia Zardini. 2021
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 62: 201-220.
Genoveva Martí, José Martínez-Fernández. 2020
Natural kind terms and rigidity
S. Biggs & H. Giersson (eds.): The Routledge Handbook on Linguistic Reference. Routledge: 283-294.
