Workshop in Philosophy of Logic
How to Say 'Yes' or 'No':
Logical Approaches to Modes of Assertion and Denial
University of Salento, Lecce (Italy), 21-22 January, 2016
Assertion and denial are mutually incompatible speech acts. In a classical theory of denial, to deny A is equivalent to asserting ¬A, that is A is correctly denied iff ¬A is correctly asserted.
However, such classical equivalence has been nowadays disputed by many logical and philosophical approaches to assertion and denial.
Aim of the workshop is to develop new modal, substructural and normative approaches to assertion and denial and to provide a fine-grained analysis of the logical constants and operators for these linguistic and epistemic acts. Moreover, we intend to develop some new philosophical ideas on assertion and denial.
In this vein innovative analyses for assertion and denial will be proposed.
Themes:
- modal, substructural and normative approaches to assertion and denial
- assertion, judgement and modality
- duality in logic
- negation as a switch between assertion and denial
- logical constants and operators for linguistic and epistemic acts
- philosophy of speech acts
- philosophical approaches to denial and assertion
Invited speakers:
Gianluigi Bellin (University of Verona)
Pasquale Frascolla (University of Basilicata)
Bjørn Jespersen (University of Barcelona)
Marie Duží (VSB-Technical University of Ostrava)
Martin Stokhof (ILLC - University of Amsterdam)
Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum)
Programme Committee:
Roberto Ciuni (University of Amsterdam)
Ciro De Florio (Catholic University, Milan)
Aldo Frigerio (Catholic University, Milan)
Vittorio Morato (University of Padua)
Antonio Negro (University of Turin)
Giuseppe Primiero (Middlesex University, London)
Fabien Schang (National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Davide Sergio (Santa Cruz)
James Trafford (UCA, London)
Luca Tranchini (Tübingen University)
Organizers
Massimiliano Carrara (University of Padua)
Daniele Chiffi (University of Padua; University of Salento, Lecce)
Caterina Annese (ZEI, Lecce)