Metaphysics and Logic group
Events
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A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom
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Metaphysics Seminar Anthi Solaki (University of Amsterdam)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United KingdomTitle: Impossible Worlds in Dynamic Epistemic Logic Abstract: 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 58³Ô¹Ï)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United KingdomTitle: On Beall and Camrud’s defence of the combinatorial argument for FDE Abstract: 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 58³Ô¹Ï)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United KingdomTitle: Logical Akrasia Abstract: 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, 58³Ô¹Ï, 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’s University)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, 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, 58³Ô¹Ï, United KingdomTitle: Explanatory (or Grounding) Proofs: Philosophical Framework, Core Ideas, Results Abstract: When it comes to the question of what proofs serve for, since the antiquity two possible answers have been identified: on the…
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Metaphysics Seminar Francisca Silva (University of 58³Ô¹Ï)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United KingdomTitle: Sets as fusions of materially-equivalent rigid embodiments Abstract: Albeit having some initial plausibility, most philosophers today would reject the thesis that members of sets are parts of sets, instead…
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Metaphysics Seminar Anna-Sofia Maurin (University of Gothenburg)
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United KingdomFlatworldism: A (Reluctant) Defense Flatworldism is a view on the nature of reality according to which reality lacks a certain kind of – hierarchical – structure. Prima facie what this…
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Metaphysics Seminar
Edgecliffe G03 -
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Metaphysics Seminar
Edgecliffe G03 -
Metaphysics Seminar
Edgecliffe G03