Time: Mondays and Wednesdays at 17:00 (starting February 8)
Place: Salle de réunion, Pavillon Jardin, ENS 29 rue d'Ulm 75005

Description:

The standard notion of a proposition as the meaning of sentences faces a range of challenges: from contemporary philosophy of language (such as expressivist approaches), linguistic semantics (some recent literature on embedded sentences as non-referential terms), as well as the historical literature on 'judgment' from early analytic philosophy.

In this intensive reading group we will discuss some significant samples of that literature:

- Expressivism
- Propositions and judgments : historical and contemporary perspectives
- New developments in Inquisitive Semantics
- Pricean naturalism

We will discuss, among others, the work of authors like S. Yalcin, M. Richard, R.M. Hare, P.T. Geach and M. Schroeder.


Initial schedule :

Monday February 8: F. Moltmann  "Attitudinal Objects"
(http://semantics.univ-paris1.fr/pdf/attitudinal%20objects-paper.pdf)

Wednesday February 10: R.M. Hare "Meaning and Speech Acts" The Philosophical Review 79 (1970) : 3-24, and P.T. Geach "Assertion" The Philosophical Review 74 (1965) : 449-65

Monday February 15: M. Schroeder Being For (Oxford University Press), part II

Wednesday February 17: M. Schroeder Being For (Oxford University Press), part III (to chapter 8)

Monday February 22: M. Schroeder Being For (Oxford University Press), part III (chapters 9 et 10)



Moderators: Alexandra Arapinis, Arvid Bave, Friederike Moltmann, David Ripley, Elia Zardini