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Renato Semaniuc Valvassori

University of Campinas
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  • The semantic challenge to non-realist cognitivism overcome
    Evan Jack and Mustafa Khuramy
    Synthese 205 1-13. 2025.
    Recently, non-realist cognitivism has been charged with failing to meet various semantic challenges. According to one such challenge, the non-realist cognitivist must provide a non-trivial account of the meaning and truth conditions of moral claims. In this paper, we discuss the various strategies proposed to overcome this challenge. Our aim is to propose a new semantics, a Meinongian referential semantics that is based on truthmaker theory. The consequences of our proposal are two-fold. First, …Read more
  • One: Being an Investigation Into the Unity of Reality and of its Parts, Including the Singular Object Which is Nothingness
    Graham Priest
    Oxford University Press. 2014.
    Graham Priest presents an original exploration of questions concerning the one and the many. He covers a wide range of issues in metaphysics--unity, identity, grounding, mereology, universals, being, intentionality and nothingness--and draws on Western and Asian philosophy as well as paraconsistent logic to offer a radically new treatment of unity
  • The Fifth Corner of Four: An Essay on Buddhist Metaphysics and the Catuskoti
    Graham Priest
    Oxford University Press. 2018.
    Graham Priest presents an exploration of the development of Buddhist metaphysics, which is viewed through the lens of the catuskoti. In its earliest and simplest form this is a logical/metaphysical principle which says that every claim is true, false, both, or neither; but Priest shows how the principle itself evolves as the metaphysics develops.