seminaire reference juin 27: Pablo Rychter

[Friederike.Moltmann at UNIV-PARIS1.FR]

Cher-e-s collegues,

Dans le cadre du séminaire sur la référence (IHPST) nous avons le
plaisir d'annoncer que la prochaine séance animé par Pablo Rychter  
(Barcelona  LOGOS group):

June 27, 2007
IHPST
13 rue du Four
75006 Paris


   Stage Theory and Proper Names.

Stage theory is a view about the nature of ordinary objects  
(artefacts, animals, persons,etc). More precisely, it is a view about  
how ordinary objects are located in time.
   According to the view, ordinary objects are instantaneous –they  
exist at only one instant. In the current philosophical debate on  
persistence, stage theory is defended by Ted Sider  and K. Hawley. In  
this paper I focus on the under-discussed issue of what stage  
theorists should say about the semantics of ordinary proper names,  
like ‘London’ or ‘G.W. Bush’. I will consider the sketchy remarks that  
stage theorists actually make about this issue (section 2), present  
some problems they face, and finally offer what I take to be the best  
view available for them (section 3). Before addressing the issue of  
proper names, I will briefly present stage theory, discussing its  
background ontological assumptions and some of its major motivations  
(section 1).


-- 
Friederike Moltmann
Directrice de recherche
Chaire d'Excellence 'Ontological Structure and Semantic Structure'
Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences
et des Techniques (IHPST)
13 rue du Four
75006 Paris, France

http://semantics.univ-paris1.fr





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