Metaphysics and Logic group
Events
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Yale Weiss, “Directions in connexive logic, past and present”
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsAbstract: Connexive logics form a heterodox family of systems characterized by contra-classical principles of conditionality and negation including so-called Aristotle’s and Boethius’ theses. In this talk, I survey the origins…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Jonathan Schaffer, “On What There Is, Was, or Could Be; Or: Modal Realism without Stares”
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsAbstract: Plato and Pegasus do not exist, but otherwise they have so much going for them. They are nameable, in range of quantifiers, and able to stand in some relations.…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Viviane Fairbank: Towards a Feminist Logic: Val Plumwood’s Legacy and Beyond
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsThis week Viviane will be leading a discussion on a paper about Val Plumwood’s feminist critique of classical negation. This will be a ‘pre-read’ discussion. The paper will be sent…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Jason Carter, “Plato on What is Not: Negation and Non-Being in the Theaetetus and Sophist”
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsQuine, in ‘On What There Is’, discusses a problem that he calls the ‘Platonic riddle of nonbeing’. The riddle is this: ‘Nonbeing must in some sense be; otherwise what is…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Franz Berto, Bestimmte Negation (Or: What Is Hegel’s Dialectic?)
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsI think Hegel’s dialectic is, in Brandomian fashion, a very inferentialist theory of concepts. There’s conspicuous textual evidence that the majority of theoretical claims in the Phenomenology, the Science of Logic, the Encyclopaedia, are about conceptual…
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