Jonathan Tallant (Nottingham)
March 30 Mon — 11.00-13.00
Aula Seminari — Aula Direzione di Dipartimento (Via Festa del Perdono 7, Milano)
Truth and Dependence.
Abstract. Truthmaker theorists insist that what is true depends upon what there is. ‘Depends’ is normally treated as a univocal notion. In this paper I draw a distinction between different kinds of truths and outline the different ways in which these truths depend upon the world, appealing to recent work on ontological dependence [Lowe, Schaffer, Tallant, etc.] to argue that there is more than one ‘truthmaker relation’. I then exploit this to solve the alleged problem of negative existentials that faces the truthmaker theorist.