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HomeUpcoming EventsDaniel Nolan (ANU): Some Gaps In Gibbard's Expressivism
Daniel Nolan (ANU): Some Gaps in Gibbard's Expressivism

Alan Gibbard in his 1990 book suggests a tempting route for developing a systematic treatment of language for expressivists and non-factualists. Developing that suggestion leads to some difficult choice points for the expressivist. I will focus on a few of these challenges: two challenges about quantification, one about normative logic, and a challenge that arises when we consider the role of context in expressivist utterances. This final challenge generalises to a wider class of views: I will argue that it causes trouble for the “assessment relativism” recently championed by John McFarlane, Andy Egan, and others.
 

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  • Tue 29 Oct 2013, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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Coombs Seminar Room B

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