Edited Volume: Baptista, L. and Rast, E. (eds.):
Meaning
and
Context. New York, Bern: Peter Lang 2010.
ISBN 978-3-0343-0574-7.
Rast, E.: Reference
and
Indexicality. Berlin: Logos Verlag
2007. ISBN 978-3832517243. [This book is an
improved version of my PhD Thesis and was published in
the series Logische Philosophie at Logos,
Berlin. The original thesis was published as E. Rast
(2006): Reference and Indexicality. PhD Thesis, Roskilde
University. An online version is available here.]
The Multidimensional
Structure of 'better than', Axiomathes 32, 2022,
pp. 291319, DOI 10.1007/s10516-020-09525-4. (link)
(pdf)
Contextual Meaning and
Theory Dependence. In: Wuppuluri, S., Stewart, I. (eds) From
Electrons to Elephants and Elections: Exploring the Role
of Content and Context. The Frontiers Collection.
Springer, Cham 2022, pp. 39-64.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92192-7_4. (link)
(pdf)
The Theory Theory of
Metalinguistic Disputes. Mind & Language,
2020, DOI doi.org/10.1111/mila.12355, 1-19, publ. online
first. (link)
(pdf)
"Valores". Entry
in Santos Campos, André &
Marques, António (eds.): Dicionário de Filosofia Moral e
Política, Ed. 2, publ. online Feb. 2019 at URL http://www.dicionariofmp-ifilnova.pt/valores/
(transl. by Susana Cadilha). (link
to English version)
Towards a Model of
Argument Strength for Bipolar Argumentation Graphs. Studies
in Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric 55 (68) 2018,
pp. 31-62. (link)
Theory of Concepts. In
Hansson, Sven Ove, Hendricks, Vincent F. (eds.):
Introduction to Formal Philosophy, Springer 2018,
pp. 241-250. (pdf)
(link)
Perspectival
Disagreement, Theoria -
a Swedish Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 84, No. 2
(May 2018), pp. 120-139. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12143.
Moral Choice Without
Moralism. In Marques, A. and Sàágua, J. (eds.): Values
and Practical Rationality, Peter Lang 2018, pp.
133-154. (link)
Metalinguistic Value
Disagreement, Studia
Semiotyczne, Vol. XXXI No. 2 (2017), pp.
139-159. (pdf) (link)
Value Disagreement and
Two Aspects of Meaning, Croatian
Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 17 No. 51(3) (2017),
pp. 399-430. (pdf)
(link)
Modeling Value
Disagreement. Erkenntnis,
Vol. 81, No. 4 (August 2016), pp. 853-880, DOI
10.1007/s10670-015-9772-8. (pdf) (link)
Commentary on
Hitchcock's All Things Considered. In Lewinski, M. &
Mohammed, D.: Proceedings of the 1st European Conference
on Argumentation, Vol. 1. College Publications 2016, pp.
181-186. (Hitchcock's article - my comment)
Harming Yourself and
Others: A Note on the Asymmetry of Agency in Action
Evaluations. Polish Journal of Philosophy, Vol.
VIII, No. 2 (2014), pp. 65-74. ISSN 1897-1652. DOI:
10.5840/pjphil20082219. (pdf)
[Note: Publ. in January 2016. The volumes are
backdated.]
Context as
Assumptions. In Lihoreau, F. & Rebuschi, M. (eds.): Epistemology, Context, and
Formalism. Springer 2014, pp. 9-39. (link)
De se Attitudes and
Semiotic Aspects of Cognition. In Fonseca, J. &
Gonçalves, J. (eds.): Philosophical Perspectives on
the Self. Peter Lang 2015, pp. 121-146. (pdf)
Book review of
Fenstad's "Grammar, Geometry, & Brain", Studia
Logica , February 2014, Vol. 102, No. 1, pp.
219-223. (pdf) (link)
On contextual domain
restriction in categorial grammar. Synthese
Vol. 190 No. 12 (Aug. 2013), pp. 2085-2115. (pdf)
(link)
De Se Puzzles, the
Knowledge Argument, and the Formation of Internal
Knowledge, Analysis
& Metaphysics, Vol. 11 (Dec. 2012), pp.
106-132. (pdf)
Nonindexical
Context-Dependence and the Interpretation as Abduction
Approach. Lodz Papers
in Pragmatics, Vol. 7 No. 2 (Dec. 2011), pp.
259-279. (pdf)
Classical Possibilism
and Fictional Objects. In Lihoreau, F. (ed.): Truth
in Fiction. Frankfurt: Ontos 2011, pp. 77-92. (link)
Plausibility Revision
in Higher-Order Logic With an Application in
Two-Dimensional Semantics. In Arrazola, Xabier and Ponte,
María (eds.): LogKCA-10
- Proceedings of the Second ILCLI International Workshop
on Logic and Philosophy of Knowledge, Communication and
Action. San Sebastian/Donostia: University of the
Basque Country Press/ILCLI 2010, pp. 387-403. (pdf)
Introduction to Meaning and Context
(together with L. Baptista), In Rast / Baptista (eds.): Meaning and Context,
Peter Lang 2011, pp. 1-17.
What Simulations Can't
Do: Reply to Fonseca and Gärtner. The
Reasoner Vol. 3, No. 10 (Oct. 2009), pp. 5-6.
Context and
Interpretation. In Larrazabal, Jesus M. and Zubeldia,
Larraitz: Meaning,
Content, and Argument. San Sebastian/Donostia:
University of the Basque Country Press/ILCLI 2009, pp.
515-534. (pdf)
A Remark About
Essential Indexicals. The
Reasoner Vol. 2, No. 10 (Oct. 2008), pp. 5-6.
Reference and
Indexicality. PhD Thesis, Roskilde University 2006.
(Thesis and book differ in pagination and some of the
content.)
What do we believe in?
In: Guldborg-Hansen, Pelle / Pedersen, Stig Andur:
Shipping News. Vol. 3 (December 2003). PHIS. Roskilde
University Press, Denmark.
Talks
2023-10-12 Chist-Era
Antidote Meeting: Inference to the Best Explanation,
Reflective Equilibrium, and Subjective Probability.[We were short on time and so I didn't use the
slides; here theyare for anyone interested.](pdf)
2023-02-24 Open
Seminar, IFILNOVA: How Objective Is Value
Disagreement? (pdf)
2022-05-20
International Conference "Metalinguistic Disagreement and Semantic
Externalism", May 19-20, 2022, IFILNOVA,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa: Discussing Word Meaning:
The Question of Internalism vs. Externalism. (pdf)
2022-05-04 Ethics
and Political Philosophy Reading Group, IFILNOVA,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa: (Metalinguistic) Value
Disagreement. (pdf)
2022-03-11 Open
Seminar, IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa: Does
"better than" have a common scale? (pdf)
2022-09-22 ANTIDOTE
Lisbon Reading Group (Zoom), IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova
de Lisboa: On "Harman (1965): The Inference to the Best
Explanation." (pdf)
2021-03-19 Open
Seminar Online (Zoom), IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa: Contextual Meaning and Theory Dependence. (pdf)
2021-03-03 Ethics and
Political Philosophy Reading Group (Zoom), IFILNOVA,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa: On "Karl Dieter Opp (2013):
Norms and Rationality". (pdf)
2020-06-26 Value
Seminar Online (Zoom), IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa: Metalinguistic Disputes and Externalist Meaning. (pdf)
2020-03-04 Ethics and
Political Philosophy Reading Group, EpLab, IFILNOVA: On
Sven Ove Hansson's overview article "Formal Investigations
of Value". (pdf)
2019-11-22 Value
Seminar, IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa: The Theory
Theory of Metalinguistic Disagreement. (pdf)
2019-07-11 MERELY
Workshop on Metalinguistic Negotiation and Conceptual
Engineering, Universidade de Lisboa: Some Remarks
About Theory Change and Topic Continuity. (pdf)
2019-05-17 Uppsala
Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy, Uppsala University
(by invitation of Erik Carlson): A Multidimensional
Approach to 'better than'. (pdf)
2019-04-12 Value
Seminar, IFILNOVA, Universidade de Lisboa: Does
Collective Action Require We-Intentions? (pdf)
2019-02-05
ArgLab Colloqium, IFILNOVA, Universidade de Lisboa: Multidimensional
'better than'.
2019-01-23 Ethics and
Political Philosophy Reading Group, EPLap, IFILNOVA,
Universidade de Lisboa: Discussion of Klocksiem
(2016): "How to accept the transitivity of 'better
than'." (pdf)
2018-12-19 CFCUL
Reasoning Group, Universidade de Lisboa: Multidimensional
'better than' and Decision Making.
2018-09-28 ArgLab
Colloqium, IFILNOVA: Reasons for the Occasional
Illusion of Faultless Moral Disagreement. (pdf)
2018-05-24 Ethics and
Political Philosophy Group, IFILNOVA: Value
Disagreement and Meaning.
2018-03-16 Values in
Argumentative Discourse Research Seminar, IFILNOVA: Lexicographic
Principles in the Theory of Value Structure. (pdf)
2017-12-15 Values in
Argumentative Discourse Research Seminar, IFILNOVA: Passing
the Buck the Right Way. (pdf)
2017-06-09 Values in
Argumentative Discourse Research Seminar, IFILNOVA: Argument
Strength for Bipolar Argument Graphs. (pdf)
2017-05-14 Philang
2017, Lodz, Poland: Value Disagreement and Dual
Aspect Semantics. (pdf)
2016-10-21, Langcog
Group, Universidade de Lisboa: Implicit
Value Disagreement.
(pdf)
2016-10-21, ArgLab
Colloquium, Universidade Nova de Lisboa: Value
Disagreement and Different Aspects of Meaning. (pdf)
2016-02-23, IFILNOVA
Institute of Philosophy, Lisbon, Research Colloquium: Is
There Nonsymmetric Disagreement?
2015-06-17, Decisions,
Games and Logic 2015, London School of Economics, UK: Making
up one's mind: from values to value judgments. (pdf)
2015-06-10, 1st
European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and
Reasoned Action, Lisbon: Comment on Hitchcock's "All
Things Considered."
2014-09-05, Congresso
Português de Filosofia da SPF 2014, Fundação Calouste
Gulbenkian, Lisbon : How tenable is Negative
Utilitarianism?
(pdf)
2014-07-08, Encontro
IFL 2014: Order-based
values - their scope and their limits. (pdf)
2013-04-08, GV-Conf
2013: Evaluating
time-continuous action alternatives from the perspective
of Negative Utilitarianism. [not
properly peer-reviewed] In Sovreski, Z.,
Mokry, M., Badura, S. & Lieskovský,A.:
Proceedings of the Global Virtual Conference 2013 (ISBN:
978-80-554-0649-7), EDIS - University of
ilina, pp. 349-351.
(pdf)
2012-03-16, Knowledge
and Disagreement, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon: Disagreement and
understanding what has been said. (pdf
slides)
2011-07-07, IFL: On the interplay between
subjective plausibility and default reasoning in the
context of interpreting natural language utterances.
(pdf slides)
2011-05-13, PhiLang
2011, Łodz: Nonindexical
context-dependence and the interpretation as abduction
approach. (pdf slides)
(Note: In my opinion abduction only makes sense when you
also consider a rational way of revising the underlying
plausibility ordering/preference relation in light of new
evidence. Anything else would be cheating.)
2010-11-03, LogKCA-10,
Donostia: Plausibility
revision in higher-order logic with an application in
two-dimensional semantics. (pdf
slides)
2010-06-09, OFA 6,
Lisbon: Some argument
against epistemic contextualism.
2009-11-12, Epiconfor,
University of Nancy/MSH Lorraine: Context
as assumptions (pdf slides)
2009-09-18, ENFA 4,
University of Evora, Portugal: Whose
context anyway?
2009-07-15, IFL, New
University of Lisbon, Portugal: Classical
possibilism and fictional objects. (pdf
slides) (Note: In this and the previous talk,
description theory is primarily used for illustrative
purposes. As I have argued in Reference&Indexicality
Millianism is adequate for modelling a narrow notion of semantic
reference.)
2009-06-18, BW6,
University of Barcelona, Spain: Possibilia
and the description theory of reference.
2009-05-08, SPR09,
University of the Basque Country, Donostia/San Sebastian:
Context and interpretation.
(pdf slides)
2009-02-21 OFA5,
Lisbon: Description theory and
identifying reference.(manuscript)
2008-11-26, IFL: Quantifier Domain restriction in categorial
grammar. (pdf
slides)
2008-02-22, IFL: Indexicality and information
II. (IFL General Seminar Series.)
2008-02-08,IFL: Indexicality
and information I. IFL General Seminar Series.