University of Padua, Department of Philosophy

March 3 - May 27, 2016

Times

Wednesdays: 13.30 - 14.30

Thursdays: 12.30-14.30

Fridays: 12.30-14.30

Syllabus (updated May 17, 2016)

Handout 1: Descriptive and Revisionary Metaphysics and Criteria for Objecthood (March 3, 2016)

Handout 2: Existence and Natural Language (March 4, 2016)

Handout 3: Roles of Entities in the Semantic Structure of Sentences and the Notion of a Situation (March 9, 2016)

Handout 4: Davidsonian Event Semantics (March 10, 2016)

Handout 5: Events and Situations and Truthmaking in Semantics (March 11, 2016)

Handout 6: Plural Reference and Reference to a Plurality: The Point of View of Natural Language (April 13 and 14, 2016)

Handout 7: Part-Related Expressions Individual, Whole, Partly, Completely, and the Part Structure of Content (April 15, 2016)

Handout 8: Tropes and their Roles in the Semantics of Natural Language (April 20, 21, 22, 2016)

Handout 9: Tropes and Attitudinal Objects (April 27, 2016)

Handout 10: Properties and Kinds of Tropes: Singular Terms and Nominalizing Quantfiers (April 28, 29, 2016)

Handout 11: The Standard Notion of a Proposition and Its Problems (May 4, 2016)

Handout 12: Attitudinal Objects and the Action-Product Distinction of Twardowski (May 11, 12, 2016)

Handout 13: The Semantics of Verbs of Saying and Quotation (May 13, 18, 2016)

Handout 14: Modal Objects and Modal Sentences (May 19, 2016)