{"id":12432,"global_id":"www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche?id=12432","global_id_lineage":["www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche?id=12432"],"author":"44","status":"publish","date":"2025-09-15 14:47:20","date_utc":"2025-09-15 13:47:20","modified":"2025-09-19 12:04:04","modified_utc":"2025-09-19 11:04:04","url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/event\/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-13\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/12432","title":"Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Greg Restall, \u201cInferentialist Pre-Semantics for Truth-Conditional Semantics\u201d","description":"

This is the third of three sessions, on inferentialist semantics. Greg will be in Taiwan delivering the 2025 Wendy Huang Lectures<\/em>, and these three sessions in the M&L seminar are his opportunity to give the lectures a preliminary outing.<\/p>\n

I have three aims for this set of lectures. Two are central, and the third is incidental:<\/p>\n

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  1. To give an account of what is so distinctive about logic<\/em>, insofar as logical notions have a grip on whatever can be said<\/em> or thought<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  2. To clarify the connections between logic and semantics<\/em>, the theory of meaning.<\/li>\n
  3. The product of these two aims is that I get to provide a philosophical prolegomena and a non-technical introduction to the more technical work I have done in my forthcoming manuscript Proof, Rules and Meaning.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Today, I aim to show how we might relate inferentialist semantics to truth-conditional accounts of meaning for natural languages.<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-13","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2025-10-08 16:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"10","day":"08","hour":"16","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2025-10-08 18:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"10","day":"08","hour":"18","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2025-10-08 15:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"10","day":"08","hour":"15","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2025-10-08 17:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"10","day":"08","hour":"17","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"Europe\/London","timezone_abbr":"BST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"\u00a3","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Metaphysics and Logic group","slug":"metaphysics-and-logic-group","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":47,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":168,"filter":"raw","id":47,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/47","collection":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":[],"organizer":[],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Greg Restall, \u201cInferentialist Pre-Semantics for Truth-Conditional Semantics\u201d","description":"<p>This is the third of three sessions, on inferentialist semantics. Greg will be in Taiwan delivering the 2025 Wendy Huang Lectures, and these three sessions...<\/p>\\n","url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/event\/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-23-13\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2025-10-08T16:00:00+01:00","endDate":"2025-10-08T18:00:00+01:00","performer":"Organization"},"is_virtual":false,"virtual_url":null,"virtual_video_source":""}