Emil Badici

Emil Badici

My research has been focused on various topics in Philosophical Logic, such as truth, logical consequence and the Liar paradox. In the dissertation I argued that the best way to account for the Liar Paradox is to say that the concept of truth is inexpressible. I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Florida in August 2007. Currently, I am a visiting instructor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Areas of Specialization

Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Language, Logic

Other Areas of Research & Teaching Interest

Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics, Modern Philosophy, Epistemology

Work Under Journal Review

“The Inexpressibility of Truth”

“On The Compatibility between Classical Geometry and Hume’s Denial of Infinite Divisibility”

"Standards of Equality and Hume’s View of Geometry"

Publications

Papers

"The Liar Paradox and the Inclosure Schema", forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

"The Concept of Truth and the Semantics of the Truth Predicate", with Kirk Ludwig, Inquiry, 2007, 50(6): 622-638.

"The Simple Liar Takes Revenge", The Logica Yearbook 2005, Filosofia, Prague, 2006, pp. 25-38.

"A defense of the Standard Account of Logical Truth”, The Logica Yearbook 2003, Filosofia, Prague, 2004, pp. 45-58.

"Semantic Truth and Mathematical Entities” (in Romanian), Krisis, 4 (1996): 50-57.

Translations

Romanian translation of chapters 1, 4–7, 9 of Geschichte der Philosophie im 19. Jahrhundert, by Ferdinand Fellmann, All Educational, Bucharest, 2000.

Romanian translation of Die Philosophische Hintertreppe, by Wilhelm Weischedel (co-translated with Ionel Zamfir), Humanitas, Bucharest, 1999.

Presentations

“The Liar Paradox and the Inclosure Schema”

- American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, 2008. (accepted for presentation)

- Florida Philosophical Association, Tallahassee, Florida, 2007. (recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Paper award)

“Comments on Jeremy J. Kelly’s The Purification and Elimination of Correspondence: a re-examination of the Austin-Strawson debate”, Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Florida, 2007.

“The Inexpressibility of Truth”, Society for Exact Philosophy, Vancouver, Canada, 2007.

“Semantic Paradoxes and the Universality of English”, Florida Philosophical Association, Tampa, Florida, 2006.

“Simple vs. Strengthened Liars”, Florida Philosophical Association, Cocoa Beach, Florida, 2005.

"The Simple Liar Takes Revenge”, Logica, Czech Republic, 2005.

"Logical Truth. A Defense of the Standard Account"

Society for Exact Philosophy, Vancouver, Canada, 2003.

Logica, Czech Republic, 2003.

"Logical Truth and Extralogical Facts"

12^th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo, Spain, 2003.

UF/FSU Graduate Student Conference, Gainesville, Florida, 2003.

“A Problem with Second-Order Consequence”, UF Logic Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Gainesville, Florida, 2002.