Metaphysics Seminar Aaron Cotnoir (University of 58吃瓜)
Title: Partial identity and mereotopology Abstract: How should we think about the ways in which identity and parthood interact? One important line of thought comes from the joint influence of…
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Metaphysics and Logic group
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A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom
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Metaphysics Seminar Matthew Green (University of 58吃瓜)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Relevance in the Logic of Imagination Abstract: Reality-oriented mental simulation is a kind of imagination. The working assumption is that, when trying to determine whether a match would light…
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Metaphysics Seminar Travis Manuel (University of 58吃瓜)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Composition as Identity defeats an Ethical Objection to Four-Dimensionalism Abstract: Johnston, Olson, and Taylor have argued against four-dimensionalism on the grounds that it commits us to the existence of…
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Metaphysics Seminar Greg Restall (University of 58吃瓜)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle:聽Worlds: Possible and Impossible Abstract: In this talk, I鈥檒l reflect on the role of worlds鈥攂oth possible worlds and impossible worlds鈥攂oth in the聽semantics of various kinds of languages and logics, and…
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Metaphysics Seminar Jace Snodgrass (University of 58吃瓜)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Properties and Their Parts Abstract: I will present some very early ideas on a hyperintensional theory of properties that I am attempting to work out. I will begin my…
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Metaphysics Seminar Anthi Solaki (University of Amsterdam)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle:聽Impossible Worlds in Dynamic Epistemic Logic Abstract:聽Epistemic Logic, as a spinoff of normal modal logics, suffers from the problem of logical omniscience: its agents are perfect reasoners with unlimited deductive…
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Metaphysics Seminar Thomas Randriamahazaka (University of 58吃瓜)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: On Beall and Camrud’s defence of the combinatorial argument for FDE Abstract:聽In their 2020 paper “FDE all the way up”, Beall and Camrud aim to defend a particular combinatorial…
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Metaphysics Seminar Frederik Andersen (University of 58吃瓜)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Logical Akrasia Abstract:聽The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it introduces the concept logical akrasia (by analogy to epistemic akrasia). Second, it discusses how logical akrasia relates to…
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Metaphysics Seminar Thomas Ferguson (City University of New York)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Intensional Subject-Matter in Subsystems of Analytic Implication Abstract: Although one tends to think of truth or falsity as the predominant semantic feature with which logic is concerned, a number…
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Metaphysics Seminar Lorraine Keller (Saint Joseph鈥檚 University)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: The Access Problem for Act-type Theories of Propositions Abstract: Recent work on propositions has seen the rise of act-type theories, according to which propositions are types of cognitive acts…
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Metaphysics Seminar Francesca Poggiolesi (Univeristy of Paris)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United KingdomTitle: Explanatory (or Grounding) Proofs: Philosophical Framework, Core Ideas, Results Abstract: When it comes to the question of聽what聽proofs serve for, since the antiquity聽two possible answers have been identified: on the…