2014 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
| Project/Area Number |
24520007
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
DIETZ Richard 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 講師 (10625651)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | vagueness / probability / rationality / appearance / practical interests / higher-order vagueness |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The Kakenhi research grant was a great help for me in allowing me to travel to departments in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland, and the UK, where I met other researchers in order to discuss my work on vagueness.
As a result, I could produce a number of research projects on vagueness, some of which have meanwhile published in peer-reviewed journal: Two joint papers with (1) Igor Douven (Sorbonne & Ugroningen) and Lieven Decock (VU Amsterdam), and (2) with I. Douven, L. Decock, and Paul Egre (JNI, Paris) respectively, on conceptual spaces and vagueness; (3) another project on the connection between gradability and vagueness, and (4) a joint project with Julien Murzi (UKent) on indeterminacy and relativistic notions of truth.
Some other projects led to papers that have been meanwhile completed and are now under review: (4) an edited special issue with the international peer-reviewed journal Synthese, on vagueness and probability, with more than ten contributions by leading experts in the field (this editorial project emerged from the conference Vagueness & Probability, which I organised at Utokyo in March 2013); a (5) paper (36.000 words) on the problem of radical higher-order vagueness (under review with MIND).
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