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Title: Truthmaker semantics for containment and nonsense Abstract: Conceptivism is the doctrine according to which a proposition cannot entail another proposition if the latter contains a concept which is not already contained in the former: entailment does not introduce any additional conceptual content. This doctrine motivates so-called containment logics, namely logics where a formula B…

Title: On American and Australian plans for negation Abstract: Francesco Berto, later joined by Greg Restall, defends a modal account of negation, or the Australian plan for negation. The aim of this talk is to carefully examine and compare Australian and American plans for negation. To this end, I will consider four cases, and draw…

Title: Something Must Go Abstract:聽In this talk, we identify a tension between the intensional criterion of property identity and Leibniz鈥檚 Law. In particular, we argue that these two widely accepted criteria, when taken together and examined in light of certain assumptions, offer a circular analysis of the identity of properties and objects.

Title: Fundamentality and Humean Laws of Ground Abstract:聽What grounds facts of ground? Some metaphysicians invoke fundamental grounding laws to answer this question. These are general principles that link grounded facts to their grounds. The main business of this talk聽is to advance the debate about the metaphysics of grounding laws by exploring the prospects of a…