Beschreibung
Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum, Matteo Plebani, Arthur Schipper and Stephen YabloConceptualising aboutness and subject matter
ABSTRACT. Section: Philosophy of Language
Philosophical logic has been busy working on Aboutness – the relation between a text and a subject matter – at least since the 2014 publication of Stephen Yablo‘s book of the same title. While more and more proposals have come forth of how to represent – and, indeed, use – it to cater for old logical worries such as hyperintensionality and relevance, little has been done to conceptualise aboutness explicitly, and the conception of subject matter has undergone a tacit change. This symposium brings together four philosophers who have worked on the philosophical aspect of aboutness and subject matter to debate their conceptualisation.
Why subject matters should be topics
Abstract:
In seminal recent work (Yablo, Fine), subject matter has propositional structure. This is a – tacit – move away from past aboutness theories (Ryle, Putnam, Goodman, Lewis) where subject matters were objects or topics. I argue that propositional subject matter has several philosophical and practical disadvantages over object/topic subject matter and that we should return to the classical object/topic conception.
| Zeitraum | 25 Aug. 2020 |
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| Ereignistitel | Tenth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy |
| Veranstaltungstyp | Konferenz |
| Ort | Utrecht, BelgienAuf Karte anzeigen |
| Bekanntheitsgrad | International |