Dear all, The first philosophy postgraduate colloquium will be held on Monday April 7 @ 2pm in the Muniment room.
Talk details: Speaker: Simon Varey Title: Directly Referential Definite Descriptions Kaplan (1980) argues that indexical expressions are (in his terminology) directly referential. In other words, he argues that the propositional content (but not the reference-fixing character) of uses of such expressions are identical to their referents. In this talk, I will argue that definite descriptions should also be seen as directly referential. I will present a semantic analysis of definite descriptions with this consequence, in the process combining Kaplan's framework with Lewis' (1979) theory of comparative salience and its relation to definite description denotation. I will then discuss some of the advantages of such an approach, as well as examining how it could handle some problem cases. Time: 2pm, April 7 Location: Muniment room, quadrangle building, University of Sydney All most welcome!
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