Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JOÃO DANIEL DANTAS DE OLIVEIRA
Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.DISCENTE: JOÃO DANIEL DANTAS DE OLIVEIRA
DATA: 26/11/2015
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: CCHLA
TÍTULO:
What does the Slingshot need to shoot?
PALAVRAS-CHAVES:
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PÁGINAS: 38
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Filosofia
RESUMO:
The family of arguments called “Slingshot Arguments” are a family of arguments underling the Fregean view that if sentences have reference at all, their references are their truth-values. It receives this name in the work by Jon Barwise and John Perry (see [Barwise and Perry, 1981]) due to the minimal machinery used to prove its cogent consequence. Usually seen as a kind of collapsing argument, the slingshot consists in proving that, once you suppose that there are some items that are references of sentences (as facts or situations, for example), these items collapse into just two items: The True and The False. In [Dunn, 1988] Dunn argued that the argument makes use of
three devices: (i) Indiscernibility of identicals, (ii) a certain notion of Replacement and (iii) a term-forming operator. In this dissertation we’re going to focus in one specific machinery, namely,
we’re going to analyze the notion of term-forming operator as an essential ingredient for the slingshot to prove its conclusion. In what is dubbed Gödel’s Slingshot, see [Neale, 1995], imposes the challenge that those who want facts as the reference of sentences must drop compositionality or the idea that definite descriptions are singular terms. In the first part, we consider the new developments on the field of Plural Logics in the book “Plural Logic” [Oliver and Smiley, 2013a] and investigate a possible criticism to Oliver and Smiley’s work, namely, we raise the question whether the Slingshot argument can also be recovered in a context of plural logic when we change the concept of terms to plural terms. In the second part, we shall investigate the role of compositionality in the light of new developments on non-deterministic semantics.
MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Interno - 1451225 - DANIEL DURANTE PEREIRA ALVES
Presidente - 1517271 - JOAO MARCOS DE ALMEIDA
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