Truthmaker semantics is a very exciting recent development in formal and philosophical semantics, with similar motivation and scope to possible worlds semantics. In this video, I explain the background, the main technical ideas, and some of the things you can do with truthmaker semantics in logic, philosophy, and linguistics.
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00:00 - Intro
00:32 - What is semantics?
01:53 - The central idea of TMS
03:40 - History of TMS
04:42 - States and Truthmaking
06:06 - Conjunctions
09:02 - Exact vs inexact truthmaking
10:18 - State spaces
13:36 - Special states
15:25 - Truthmaking clauses
20:55 - Entailment
24:12 - Propositions
27:36 - Semantics for logics
29:07 - Knowledge & Scepticism
31:35 - Counterfactuals
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Links:
Introductory article on Truthmaker Semantics: https://philpapers.org/archive/JAGTSI.pdf
My academic philosophy page: http://markjago.net
My book What Truth Is: http://bit.ly/JagoTruth
Most of my publications are available freely here: https://philpapers.org/s/Mark%20Jago
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