ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO SEMANTIC NATURALISM
ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO SEMANTIC NATURALISM

Summary/Abstract: On the 21st ofApril, 2017, a PhD dissertation defence by Mindaugas Gilaitis took place at the Faculty of Philosophy. Titled The possibilities of semantic naturalism: the standard view and an ability-based alternative, the dissertation was prepared at Vilnius University during 2011-2017. During those years, Gilaitis was a doctoral student of philosophy at the Department of Logic and History of Philosophy and has also spent one year (2013-2014) participating in a PhD Internship Programme at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Zurich. Gilaitis’ research was supervised by Prof. Marius Povilas Šaulauskas (Vilnius University), while the consultations were held with Prof. Nenad Miščević (Central European University). Members of the Defence Committee were Prof. Hanoch Ben-Yami (Central European University), Prof. Aldis Gedutis (Klaipėda University), Prof. Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich), Prof. Albinas Plėšnys (Vilnius University) and the defence session was chaired by Assoc. Prof. Jonas Dagys (Vilnius University).

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