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No M&L meeting because of a concurrent School Council meeting.

Title: Beliefs based on conflicting and uncertain evidence: connecting Dempster-Shafer theory and the topology of evidence Abstract: One problem to solve in the context of information fusion, decision-making, and other…

Title: Seeing Holes-without seeing what they are holes in Abstract: Peering down into a tall box, you see a ring. The ring is removed. To your surprise this uncovers a…

Title: History of logic as a tool for exploring the plurality of logical frameworks Abstract: I will outline another type of logical pluralism than the one now famously proposed by…

Title: A New Problem for Logical Contextualism Abstract: Logical contextualism is the view that ‘valid’ is a context-sensitive expression. One key reason to endorse logical contextualism is that, unlike traditional forms of…

Title: Reference Without Identity Abstract: Singular reference to non-individuals is often thought to be impossible. At present, however, this claim rests solely on intuitions. In this paper, I present four…

Title: When Rules Define Logical Operators: Rules as Second-Order Definitions Abstract: Logical inferentialists hold that the meaning of logical operators is given by their rules of inference. Arthur Prior cast…

No meeting due to the concurrent CEPPA Fest.

Title: Talk About Types Abstract: Many metaphysical theories of identity, existence, and so on, are formulated using higher-order languages like the simply typed lambda calculus. But as I argue, for…