BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Philosophy events - ECPv6.16.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:/philevents X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Philosophy events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191210T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191210T120000 DTSTAMP:20200129T153324Z CREATED:20200129T153324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T153324Z UID:10000791-1575972000-1575979200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Super Special Seminar Walter Dean (Warwick) The liar and the sorites: towards a uniform arithmetical treatment DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The unification of the paradoxes of truth and vagueness has been a topic of recurrent philosophical interest (e.g. McGee 1989/1990\, Tappenden 1993\, Field 2003/2008\, Priest 1994/2010). I will present a sequence of observations which illustrate how the liar and sorites paradoxes are formally related\, culminating in the observation that both give rise to similar sorts of mathematical incompleteness phenomena. On this basis\, I will highlight the possibility of using formal undecidability in modeling semantic indeterminacy. URL:/philevents/event/super-special-seminar-walter-dean-warwick-the-liar-and-the-sorites-towards-a-uniform-arithmetical-treatment/ LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ô¹Ï\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Conceptual Engineering Seminar,Super Special Seminar series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T120000 DTSTAMP:20200211T153414Z CREATED:20200129T153328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200211T153414Z UID:10000794-1576144800-1576152000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:Super Special Seminar Walter Dean (Warwick) On consistency and existence in mathematics DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Following the publication of his Foundations of Geometry in 1899\, David Hilbert engaged in a well-known debate with Frege which concerned (amongst other things) the question of whether the consistency of a set of axioms entails the existence of a model in which they are satisfied.   I will consider this dimension of the so-called Frege-Hilbert controversy in light of the subsequent work in logic and philosophy which it inspired.  I will argue for the following claims: i) the controversy both anticipated Gödel’s completeness theorem and shaped its reception (in which Bernays played a central role); ii) Frege was right to maintain that consistency checking is as difficult as it can be; ii) Hilbert was also right to maintain that given consistency\,  demonstrating the existence of a model is as easy as it can be. URL:/philevents/event/super-special-seminar-walter-dean-warwick-on-consistency-and-existence-in-mathematics/ LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ô¹Ï\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Super Special Seminar series END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR