[Alta-Logic] Talk: John Kearns: Illocutionary Logic (Friday April 18, 4 pm)

[Richard Zach]

Logic Talk!

John Kearns
Department of Philosophy
SUNY Buffalo

Illocutionary Logic: Truth and Commitment. An Enlarged Conception of 
Semantics, and an Application to the Sorites Paradox

Friday, April 18 (BSD!)
4:00 pm
1253 Social Sciences

A basic presentation of systems of illocutionary logic. These systems
have two semantic levels, one concerned with truth conditions of
statements, the second with commitment conditions of illocutionary acts.
(Performing some acts will commit a person to perform others.) These
systems motivate shifting the boundary between semantics and pragmatics.
The systems also provide the conceptual resources for understanding
issues concerning vagueness.