Retraction Matters

Dan-Cristian Zeman received his Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona in 2011. He was awarded post-doctoral grants at Institut Jean Nicod (2011-2013), Pompeu Fabra University (2013-2014), University of the Basque Country (2014-2017), University of Vienna (2017-2019), Slovak Academy of Sciences (2019-2020). He is currently an Adjunct Professor (OPUS 17 grantee) at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. His main research area is the philosophy of language, in particular the semantics of various natural language expressions such as predicates of taste, indexicals, slurs and gender terms. His monograph Disagreement in Semantics (co-authored with Mihai Hîncu) is forthcoming with Routledge in 2022. He has published in Dialectica, Thought, Linguistics & Philosophy, Philosophia, Critica, Inquiry, Theoria and is a co-editor of the several special issues of journals, as well as of the collective volume Perspectiveson Taste. Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy (Routledge 2022). He has also contributed to The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism (Routledge, 2020), The Architecture of Context and Context-Sensitivity (Springer, 2020), Meaning, Context, and Methodology (de Gruyter, 2017), Subjective Meaning: Alternatives to Relativism (de Gruyter, 2016), and Context-Dependence, Perspective, and Relativity (de Gruyter, 2010) and is Corner Editor for philosophy of language at Organon F.

Mihai Hîncu received his B.A. from the University of Paris XII (2005), and his M.A. (2006) and Ph.D (2012) from the University of Bucharest, with a thesis on the two-dimensional modal logics of the phenomenal concepts, and a dissertation concerning the philosophical aspects and the formal semantics of the intensionality effects induced by the doxastic attitude ascriptions. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at theRomanian Academy, Ia i Branch (2014-2015), and he is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Letters and Communication, Valahia University, Romania. His main areas of specialization are the philosophy of language, formal semantics and logic, while his areas of competence encompass formal epistemology, decision and game theory. His research articles have appeared in venues such as Elsevier Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Logos & Episteme, Theoria. He is a co-editor (with Dan Zeman) of the Synthese Topical Collection New Work on Disagreement (Springer, 2021), and he is the co-author (with Dan Zeman) of a forthcoming monograph Disagreement in Semantics. Contextualism and Relativism in Contemporary Philosophy of Language (Routledge, 2022).

1. Introduction    (Mihai Hîncu and Dan Zeman).- Part I: Insights from the Debate about Perspectival Expressions. 2. Taste Predicates and Retraction Data: An Improved Framework (Jeremy Wyatt and Joseph Ulatowski).- 3. Falsity and Retraction: New Experimental Data on Epistemic Modals (Teresa Marques).- 4. Relativism and Retraction: The Case Is Not Yet Lost (Dan Zeman).- 5. Relevance in Epistemic Modal Disagreement (Jesse Fitts).- Part II: Insights from Speech Act Theory and Conversational Dynamics. 6. "Actually, Scratch That": A Tour into the Illocutionary Fabric of Retraction (Laura Caponetto).- 7. Nevermind: On Retraction as a Speech Act (Lwenn Bussière-Caraes, Luca Incurvati, Giorgio Sbardolini, and Julian Schlöder).- 8. Assertion and Retraction (Andy Egan).- 9. The Ethics of Retraction (Quill Kukla).- 10. Retraction and Verbal Disputes (Pedro Abreu and Marcin Lewinski).