Semantic Structure and Ontological Structure (IHPST)

Tue Oct 24 11:06:12 UTC 2006



  De: "peggy.cardon" <peggy.cardon at univ-paris1.fr>


  Fall 2006/7
  Seminar:
  Tropes and their Role in the Semantics of Natural Language


  Friederike Moltmann
  Directrice de recherche CNRS
  fmoltmann at univ-paris1.fr 


  place: IHPST, GS, 13 rue du four, 75006 Paris, metro Mabillon
  time: generally Tuesdays 16-18 pm, some Thursdays 16-18 pm, one Wednesday 16-18pm


  schedule:


  Oct. 17: Tropes in Philosophy and Semantics: an Overview
            suggested reading: Williams (1953), Simons (1994), Bacon (online)


  Oct. 24: The Nature of Tropes and Reference to Tropes
            suggested reading: Moltmann (to appear, ms)


  Thursday Nov. 2 (instead of Tuesday Oct. 31):
            Benjamin Schnieder (Hamburg): On Reference to Tropes
            suggested reading: Levinson (1980), Schnieder (to appear)


  November 7: Kinds of Tropes and Other Universals
            suggested reading: Woltersdorff (1970), Moltmann(2004, 2005)


  November 14: no seminar !


  Thursday Nov. 23 (instead of Tuesday Nov. 21):
            Jonathan Lowe (Durham): 'Four-Category Ontology'
            suggested reading: Lowe (1998, 2006)


  November 28: Tropes, Universals and Individuals
            suggested reading: Bacon (1995), Campbell (1990), Mertz(1990)


  December 5: Luc Schneider (Geneva): On Metz's Logic
            suggested reading: Mertz (1990)


  Wednesday December 13 (instead Tuesday Dec. 12):
            with Arianna Betti (University fo Amsterdam)
            'Tropes and Truthmaking'


  Tuesday December 19: Remaining Issues


  literature (selection):
  J. Bacon: 'Tropes'. Online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  ---------- (1995): Universals and Property Instances. The Alphabet of
       Being.Blackwell, Oxford.
  Campbell, K. (1990): Abstract Particulars. Blackwell, Oxford.
  Levinson, J. (1980): 'The Particularization of Attributes'. Australiasian
        Journal of Philosophy 58, pp. 102-15.
  Lowe, J. (1998): The Possibility of Metaphysics. Oxford UP, Oxford.
    --------(2006): The Four-Category Ontology. A Metaphysics Foundation for
         Natural Science. Oxford UP.
  Merz, D. W. (1996): Moderate Realism and Its Logic. Yale UP, New Haven.
  Moltmann, F. (2004): 'Properties and Kinds of Tropes: New Linguistic Facts
         and Old Philosophical Insights'. Mind 113, 1-43.
  ----------- (2005): 'Two Kinds of Universals and Two Kind of Groups'.
         Linguistics and Philosophy 27: 739-776.
  ---------------- (to appear): ?Events, Tropes, and Truthmaking?.
         PhilosophicalStudies.
  ----------------- (ms): 'Comparatives without Degrees. A Trope-Based Approach'.
         Ms. IHPST.
         all available at: http://www-ihpst.univ-paris1.fr/fmoltmann
  Maurin, Anna-Sophia (2002): If Tropes. Kluwer Dordrecht.
  Mulligan, K. / P. Simons / B. Smith (1984): ?Truthmakers?. Philosophy and
         Phenomenological Research 44, 287-321.
  Simons, P. (1994): 'Particulars in Particular Clothing. Three Trope
         Theories of Substance'. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54.3,
         pp. 553-574. Reprinted in S. Laurence / C. MacDonald (eds.): 
  Contemporary
         Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics. Blackwell, Oxford 1998.
  Strawson, P. (1953-4): 'Particular and General'. Proceedings of the 
  Aristotelian
          Society. Reprinted in A. Schoedinger (ed.): The Problem of Universals.
          Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1992.
  ----------- (1959): Individuals. An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics. Methuen,
          London.
  Schnieder, B. (2004): 'A Note on Particularized Properties and Bearer-
         Uniqueness'.Ratio 17, 218-228.
  Williams, D. C. (1953): 'On the elements of being'. Review of Metaphysics 7,
          3-18.  Reprinted in Mellor/Oliver (eds.): Properties, Oxford 
  UP, 112-124.
  Woltersdorff, N. (1960): 'Qualities'. Philosophical Review 69.
          Reprinted  in A. Schoedinger (ed.): The Problem of Universals. 
  Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1992.
    --------------- (1970): On Universals. Chicago UP, Chicago.


  Description:
  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 Socrates?
  wisdom, 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.
        The seminar will also be preparatory for a workshop on tropes
  and properties at the IHPST on January 21-22.


  further upcoming activities:


  First Oxford-Paris Workshop in Philosophy of Language
  December 16-17
  location: IHPST
  Speakers include: John Hawthorne (Oxford), Michael Martin (UCL
  London), Ed Zalta (Stanford), Philippe de Rouilhan (IHPST)


  Geneva-Paris Workshop on Properties and Tropes
  January  21-22
  location: IHPST, Paris
  Speakers include: Luc Schneider, Philipp Keller, Arianna Betti


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