I am involved in organising a conference on logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics in Shanxi, China in October.
The CFP is here:
https://entiaetnomina2026.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-2026/
https://philevents.org/event/show/148873
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Thomas Hodgson
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mastodon 4.7.3I am a philosopher who works on philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.
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My paper 'Independence of belief' is out.
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@hyde I do this but in probably the least interesting way: a folder with markdown files in it, that I happen to edit with neovim. Links to other notes are just `[.md]` (when I remember).
Here is a question that came up today while discussing Stanley's 'Context and logical form' with my students: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005599312747
Suppose someone says 'a world famous topologist'. Let's agree that it is clear in the context that they have asserted that Jane is a world famous topologist.
Can we distinguish between the following views?
1. The utterance contains an unpronounced 'she'.
2. The utterance is not a complete sentence, but can be used to make an assertion.