LanCog seminar: Gabriel Uzquiano on truth, location and modality
Ricardo Santos
SEMINAR SERIES IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
2025-26: Session 18
Patterns of Truth: Location and Modality
Gabriel Uzquiano (University of Southern California)
20 March 2026, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET)
Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa
Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)
Abstract: When is a proposition true at a location, whether a time, a place or a world? And what is it for a proposition to be true exactly at a given location, as opposed to being true all over or entirely within that location? We develop a unified modal framework for these distinctions designed to capture a family of locational relations for propositions, but we find that exact location is resistant to the treatment. We argue that to be true exactly at a location is not just a matter of what pattern of truth across locations a proposition may exemplify.
All are welcome, in-person!