Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Roy Sorensen (UT Austin and University of 58³Ô¹Ï)
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: 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…
Janina Hosiasson’s logic of rational degrees of belief: subjective probability before and after Ramsey Abstract: In 1931, Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum proposed a proto-decision-theoretic answer to the value of evidence problem, originally…
Title: ‘Logic and Inference in the Sender-Receiver Model’ Abstract: Logic, inference, language – somehow these are all connected. But how? One of David Lewis’s goals in his book Convention (1969) was to answer…
Title: What do we mean? Semantics, Practices and Pluralism  Abstract: In this informal talk, I will revisit some longstanding issues in philosophical logic in the light of some contemporary developments.  The…
Wee relaxed organisational meeting with tea and biscuits.
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