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face="Courier New" size=3>Fall 2006/7</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Semantic Structure and Ontological
Structure</FONT></DIV>
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face="Courier New" size=3>Tropes and their Role in the Semantics of Natural
Language</FONT></DIV>
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face="Courier New" size=3>Friederike Moltmann</FONT></DIV>
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face="Courier New" size=3>Directrice de recherche CNRS</FONT></DIV>
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face="Courier New" size=3>Envisaged audience:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Students with some background in metaphysics and /
or linguistic semantics, doctoral students, researchers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>place: IHPST, GS, 13 rue du four, 75006 Paris, métro
Mabillon</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>time: Tuesdays and some Thursdays 16-18,
IHPST</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>description:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Tropes in contemporary philosophical terminology are
concrete manifestations of properties such as for example Socrates’ wisdom or
the apple’s redness. Tropes (as ‘accidents’, ‘modes’, or ‘abstract
particulars’) have played an important role throughout the history of
philosophy, going back at least to Plato and Aristotle. But tropes have also
received renewed recent interest in contemporary metaphysics, offering new
possible solutions to longstanding philosophical problems such as the problem
of universals and the relation between individuals and the universals they
instantiate. Tropes also play a rather central role in the semantics of
natural language, not just as referents of nominalizations like <I>Socrates’
wisdom</I>, but arguably also in the semantics of modifiers, comparatives, and
many other constructions. In this seminar, we will explore the various roles
tropes may play in the semantics of natural language and discuss some of the
most important issues of the more recent metaphysical debate surrounding
tropes. We will also discuss the relation between tropes to closely related
ontological categories, such as events, situations, states of affairs, and
facts.</FONT></DIV>
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face="Courier New" size=3> The seminar will also be
preparatory for a workshop on tropes and properties at the IHPST on January
21-22.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>schedule:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Oct. 17: Tropes in Philosophy and Semantics: an
Overview</FONT></DIV>
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suggested reading: Williams (1953), Simons (1994), Bacon (online)</FONT></DIV>
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size=3></FONT> </P>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Oct. 23: The Nature of Tropes and Reference to
Tropes</FONT></DIV>
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suggested reading: Strawson (1953, 1959), Schnieder (2004), Woltersdorff
(1960,</FONT></DIV>
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1970), Moltmann (to appear, ms)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Thursday Nov. 2 (instead of Tuesday Oct.
31):</FONT></DIV>
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B. Schnieder (Hamburg) (to be confirmed): ‘On Reference to
Tropes’</FONT></DIV>
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size=3></FONT> </P>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>November 7: Kinds of Tropes and Other
Universals</FONT></DIV>
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suggested reading: Woltersdorff (1960, 1970), Moltmann (2004,
2005)</FONT></DIV>
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size=3></FONT> </P>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>November 14: no seminar</FONT></DIV>
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size=3></FONT> </P>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Thursday Nov. 23 (instead of Tuesday Nov.
21):</FONT></DIV>
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face="Courier New"
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Jonathan Lowe (Durham): ‘Four-Category
Ontology’</FONT></DIV>
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suggested reading: Lowe (1998,
2006)</FONT></DIV>
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size=3></FONT> </P>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>November 28: Tropes, Universals and
Individuals</FONT></DIV>
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suggested reading: Bacon (1995), Campbell (1990), Merz (1990)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>December 5: Luc Schneider (Geneva): On Mertz’s
Logic</FONT></DIV>
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suggested reading: Mertz (1990)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>December 12: Tropes and Related Objects (Events, Qua
Objects, States, Facts)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>literature (selection):</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>J. Bacon:’ Tropes’. <I>Online Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy.</I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>---------- (1995): <I>Universals and Property
Instances – The Alphabet of Being</I>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> Blackwell,
Oxford.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Campbell, K. (1990): <I>Abstract Particulars</I>.
Blackwell, Oxford.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Levinson, J. (1980): ‘The Particularization of
Attributes’. <I>Australiasian Journal of Philosophy</I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> 58, pp.
102-15.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Lowe, J. (1998): <I>The Possibility of
Metaphysics</I>. Oxford UP, Oxford.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>----------- (2006): <I>The Four-Category Ontology. A
Metaphysics Foundation for Natural</I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> Science.
Oxford UP.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Merz, D. W. (1996): <I>Moderate Realism and Its
Logic</I>. Yale UP, New Haven.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Moltmann, F. (2004): ‘Properties and Kinds of
Tropes: New Linguistic Facts and Old</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> Philosophical Insights’.
<I>Mind</I> 113, 1-43.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>---------------- (2005): ‘Two Kinds of Universals
and Two Kind of Groups’. <I>Linguistics and</I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> Philosophy 27:
739-776.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>---------------- (to appear): ‘Events, Tropes, and
Truthmaking’. <I>Philosophical Studies</I>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>----------------- (ms): ‘Comparatives without
Degrees. A Trope-Based Approach’. Ms. IHPST.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> all available
at: <A
href="http://www-ihpst.univ-paris1.fr/fmoltmann">http://www-ihpst.univ-paris1.fr/fmoltmann</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Maurin, Anna-Sophia (2002): <I>If Tropes</I>. Kluwer
Dordrecht.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Mulligan, K. / P. Simons / B. Smith (1984):
‘Truthmakers’. <I>Philosophy and</I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> Phenomenological Research
44, 287-321.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Simons, P. (1994): 'Particulars in Particular
Clothing. Three Trope Theories of Substance'.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> In <I>Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research</I> 54.3, pp. 553-574. Reprinted in</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> S. Laurence / C.
MacDonald (eds.): <I>Contemporary Readings in the Foundations
of</I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> Metaphysics.
Blackwell, Oxford 1998.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Strawson, P. (1953-4): ‘Particular and General’.
<I>Proceedings of the Aristotelian</I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> Society. Reprinted in
A. Schoedinger (ed.): <I>The Problem of Universals</I>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> Humanities Press, New
Jersey, 1992..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>--------- (1959): <I>Individuals. An Essay in
Descriptive Metaphysics</I>. Methuen, London.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Schnieder, B. (2004): ‘A Note on Particularized
Properties and Bearer-Uniqueness’.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> <I>Ratio </I>17,
218-228.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Williams, D. C. (1953): 'On the elements of being'.
<I>Review of Metaphysics</I> 7, 3-18.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> Reprinted in Mellor/Oliver
(eds.), 112-124.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>Woltersdorff, N. (1960): ‘Qualities’.
<I>Philosophical Review</I> 69. Reprinted in A.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3> Schoedinger (ed.): <I>The
Problem of Universals</I>. Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1992.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Courier New"
face="Courier New" size=3>-------------------- (1970): <I>On Universals</I>.
Chicago UP, Chicago.</FONT></DIV>
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