Talks

Upcoming talks and conferences

• February 18, 2012, Keynote speaker, USC/UCLA Graduate Student Philosophy Conference.
• March 26, 2012 - March 30, 2012, Princeton University, Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Philosophy department.
• June 12, 2012 - June 16, 2012, The Origins of Logical Hylomorphism, 19th European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics, Geneva.

Recent talks

Relativism vs. Expressivism: the Case of Epistemic Modals

• July 02, 2011, EPR₃ (Expressivism, Pragmatism, and Representationalism), Sydney, Australia.

Why Assessment Sensitivity?

• April 08, 2011, Philosophy Colloquium, Cornell University.

A Puzzle about Modal Uncertainty

• January 13, 2011, Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy group, Distinguished Visitor Series.
• November 19, 2010, Philosophy Colloquium, Brown University.
• June 14, 2010, Workshop on philosophy of logic, IHPST, Paris.

Comments on Code and Simons

• December 27, 2010 - December 30, 2010, Eastern Division APA, Boston, Symposium on hylomorphic metaphysics.

Assessment Sensitivity

• September 19, 2010 - October 09, 2010, Context and Content Lectures, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris.

Five Seminars on Assessment Sensitivity

• June 07, 2010 - June 11, 2010, University of Bologna, Italy.

What You Ought to Believe

• June 05, 2010, Conference on Truth (and Relativism), Bologna, Italy.
• May 28, 2010, G[af], University of Buenos Aires.

Ifs and Oughts

• May 27, 2010, G[af], University of Buenos Aires.
• January 15, 2010, Philosophy Colloquium, UC Irvine.
• April 28, 2009, Syntax and Semantics Circle, UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics.
• December 05, 2008, Philosophy Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin.
• September 26, 2008, Philosophy Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh.
• September 25, 2008, Philosophy Colloquium, University of Toronto.
• May 30, 2008, Arché Contextualism and Relativism Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland.
• April 18, 2008, Logic Colloquium, Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley.

Varieties of Disagreement

• May 24, 2010, G[af], University of Buenos Aires.
• April 30, 2010, Department of Philosophy, The New School.
• November 13, 2009, Mini-conference on the work of François Recanati, University of Chicago, Workshop on Semantics and the Philosophy of Language.
• May 20, 2009, Institute of Philosophy, University of London.
• May 15, 2009, Conference on relativism, University College Dublin.

Epistemic Modals: Relativism vs. Cloudy Contextualism

• April 16, 2010, Chambers Philosophy Conference on Epistemic Modals, University of Nebraska. text of paper slides

Richard on Truth and Commitment

• April 04, 2010, Author Meets Critics Session on Mark Richard, When Truth Gives Out, Pacific Division APA, San Francisco. text of paper

Fuzzy Epistemicism

• January 29, 2010, Logic Colloquium, Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science, Berkeley.

Six seminars on assessment sensitivity

• March 23, 2009 - April 03, 2009, University of Barcelona.

What Is Assertion?

• May 24, 2008, Arché Assertion Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland.

Ought: Between Objective and Subjective

• March 28, 2008, Philosophy Colloquium, University of Minnesota.
• March 01, 2008, New York Institute of Philosophy Disagreement Workshop.
• January 09, 2008 - January 13, 2008, Arizona Ontology Conference, outside Tucson.
• December 14, 2007, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Philosophy Colloquium.
• November 11, 2007, Workshop on Context-dependence, Perspective and Relativity in Language and Thought, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris.

In Defense of Degrees

• June 22, 2007, LOGICA 2007, Hejnice, Czech Republic.
• June 08, 2007, Arché Vagueness Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland.

Assertion, Information, and Commitment

• June 06, 2007, Relativism Seminar, Arché Center, St. Andrews, Scotland.
• June 01, 2007, Oxford, Jowett Society.
• May 09, 2007, UC Riverside, Philosophy Colloquium.
• May 04, 2007, MIT, Philosophy Colloquium.
• April 14, 2007, Keynote, Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Student Conference.
• April 07, 2007, Pacific Division APA, Symposium on Context and Content.
• March 29, 2007, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, Mexico City.

Comments on Bob Brandom’s “Elaborating Abilities: The Expressive Role of Logic”

• April 28, 2007, Reprise of Locke Lectures, Prague, Czech Republic.

Truth and Subjectivity

• March 28, 2007, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, Mexico City.
• January 11, 2007, UC Davis, Philosophy of Language Salon.
• October 13, 2006, University of Connecticut, Philosophy Colloquium.

Epistemic Modals Are Assessment-Sensitive

• November 03, 2006 - November 05, 2006, Linguistics and Philosophy Workshop, University of Michigan.
• February 03, 2006, University of California, Berkeley, Logic and Methodology of Science Colloquium.

Comments on Peter Lasersohn, “Relative truth, speaker commitment, and control of implicit arguments”

• September 29, 2006, Rutgers Semantics Workshop. text of paper

The Logic of Confusion

• April 07, 2006 - April 08, 2006, Camp Out!, Pittsburgh.

Relativism and Disagreement

• March 31, 2006, New York University, Philosophy Colloquium.
• March 25, 2006, Symposium on Relative Truth in Semantics, Pacific Division APA, Portland.

Relativist Semantics for Epistemic Modals

• December 30, 2005, Informational Session on Epistemic Modals, Eastern Division APA, New York.

On Some Objections to Relativist Semantics

• November 11, 2005, Workshop on Relativism, University of Oslo, Norway.

Epistemic Possibility

• October 27, 2005, UC Santa Cruz Philosophy Department.
• June 10, 2005, Arche Center, St. Andrews, Epistemology Seminar.
• May 20, 2005, Ohio State University, Philosophy Colloquium.
• April 15, 2005, University of Chicago Wittgenstein Workshop.

Nonindexical Contextualism

• October 21, 2005, UCLA Philosophy Colloquium.
• September 17, 2005, Rutgers Semantics Workshop.

Truth in the Garden of Forking Paths

• September 05, 2005, LOGOS Workshop on Relativizing Utterance Truth, Barcelona.

Making Sense of Relative Truth

• June 13, 2005, Fourth International Conference on Logic and Cognition, Zhongshan (Sun Yat-Sen) University, Guangzhou, China.
• June 08, 2005, Arche Center, St. Andrews, Philosophy Club.
• June 06, 2005, Aristotelian Society, London.
• June 03, 2005, Bristol University, Philosophy Department Research Seminar (and keynote speaker for the postgraduate conference “Novel approaches in the philosophies of the natural and mathematical sciences”).

Double Vision: Two Questions About the Neo-Fregean Programme.

• June 09, 2005, Arche Center, St. Andrews, Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar.

Non-indexical Contextualism

• June 08, 2005, Arche Center, St. Andrews, Vagueness Seminar.

Semantic Minimalism and Non-Indexical Contextualism

• March 26, 2005, Pacific Division APA, San Francisco, Author Meets Critics Session on Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore, Insensitive Semantics.

Truth and Correct Belief

• January 12, 2005, SOFIA Conference, Huatulco, Mexico, comments on Allan Gibbard.

Making Sense of Relativism About Truth

• October 01, 2004, University of California, San Diego, Philosophy Colloquium.

How to Be a Relativist About Truth

• May 21, 2004, University of California, Santa Barbara, Philosophy Colloquium.
• April 02, 2004, Princeton University, Philosophy Colloquium.
• March 11, 2004, Harvard University, Philosophy Colloquium.

In What Sense (If Any) Is Logic Normative for Thought?

• April 25, 2004, Central Division APA, Chicago, Symposium on the Normativity of Logic.
• March 05, 2004, University of California, Berkeley, Logic and Methodology of Science Colloquium.

Epistemic Friction: Reflections on Logic, Truth and Knowledge.

• April 17, 2004, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Philosophy of Logic Workshop, Comments on Gila Sher.

A Relativist Semantics for ‘S knows that p’

• December 05, 2003, University of California, Irvine, Logic and Philosophy of Science Colloquium.
• November 08, 2003, “Themes in Philosophy of Language” Conference, Yale University.
• October 17, 2003, Stanford University, Philosophy Colloquium.

Epistemic Modalities and Relative Truth

• October 31, 2003, University of Utah, Philosophy Colloquium.

Frege, Kant, and the Logic in Logicism

• April 24, 2003, University of Notre Dame, Seminar on Philosophy of Mathematics.
• February 15, 2000, Princeton University.
• February 11, 2000, New York University.
• January 31, 2000, University of California at Los Angeles.
• January 27, 2000, University of California at Berkeley.
• January 18, 2000, University of Texas at Austin.

Double Vision: Two Questions about the Neo-Fregean Programme

• March 28, 2003, Pacific Division APA, San Francisco, Author Meets Critics Session.

Future Contingents and Relative Truth

• November 01, 2002, Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science Colloquium, UC Berkeley.

*A Valuational (but not Supervaluational) Approach to Vagueness*

• June 15, 2002, ECAP 4, Lund, Sweden.
• May 08, 2002, Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science, UC Berkeley.

Frege’s Unofficial Arithmetic

• March 29, 2001, Pacific Division APA Symposium, San Francisco, comments on Augustin Rayo.

Topic-neutrality

• September 15, 2000, Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science Colloquium, UC Berkeley.

What is Modeled by Truth in All Models?

• April 08, 2000, Pacific Division APA Colloquium, Albuquerque.

Permutation Invariance and the Generality of Logic

• February 03, 2000, Stanford University.

Aristotelian Matter Unified

• January 21, 2000, University of California at Davis.
• January 06, 2000, University of Michigan.

Aristotle’s Argument for the Substantiality of Matter

• May 14, 1999, University of New Mexico.

Boghossian on the Analyticity of Logic

• May 08, 1999, Central Division APA Colloquium, New Orleans.