Practical Information
a) Dates:
Monday 13 - Friday 17 June 2022
b) Location:
A12, Red Building, West Campus USI
Via Buffi, 13
Lugano, Switzerland
c) How to apply:
It is necessary to send a copy of the CV, a one-page motivation letter and a reference letter from a supervisor or colleague to [email protected].
The deadline for applications is January 15, 2022.
d) Who can attend?
Application is open to both graduate and post-graduate.
e) Fees:
400 CHF. Bursaries for those who do not have personal funding or are travelling long distance will be made available depending on the availability.
f) Certificate of participation:
Every student will be given an evaluation based on the daily assignments and a certificate of participation.
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Titles of the sessions
Monday 13 Varieties of Truth-conditional semantics compared: possible worlds semantics; situation semantics; truthmaker semantics.
Tuesday 14 Basic framework of truthmaker semantics: state space; truth-maker clauses; notions of entailment.
Wednesday 15 Application to counterfactuals.
Thursday 16 Applications to deontic logic and deontic revision.
Friday 17 Some linguistic applications: scalar implicature; free choice; negation.
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Schedule of the Summer School
The following is a provisional schedule still subject to changes.
MONDAY 13
Varieties of T-cond compared
3.15pm-4pm Welcome & Introduction 4pm-5.30pm Class by Kit Fine TUESDAY 14
Basic Framework of TM Semantics
9.30am-11am Exercise and discussion session with Kit Fine 11am-11.15am Coffee break 11.15am-12.30pm Class by Kit Fine 12.30pm-13.30pm Lunch break 1.30pm-2.15pm Class by Kit Fine 2.15pm-4pm Time for individual study 4pm-8pm Hike 8.30pm Social Apero WEDNESDAY 15
Application to Counterfactuals
9.30am-11am Exercise and discussion session with Kit Fine 11.00am-11.15am Coffee break 11.15am-12.30pm Class by Kit Fine 12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch break 1.30pm-2.15pm Class by Kit Fine 2.15pm-4pm Time for individual study 7pm Social Apero THURSDAY 16
Linguistic and Deontic Logic Applications
9.30am-11am Exercise and discussion session with Mark Jago 11am-11.15am Coffee break 11.15am-12.30pm Class by Kit Fine 12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch break 1.30pm-2.15pm Class by Kit Fine 2.15pm-4pm Time for individual study 4pm-5.30pm + 5.45pm-7.15pm SUP FRIDAY 17
Graduate Sessions
9.30am-11am Exercise and discussion with Mark Jago 11am-11.45am Antonio Freiles A truthmaker approach to ontological dependence 11.45am-12.30pm Niccolò Rossi Refining truthmaker semantics for epistemic logic 12.30-13.30 Lunch break 13.30-14.15 Vita Saitta Truthmakers and knowledge 14.15-15.00 Francisca Silva Knowledge relative to a question
