Metaphysics and Logic group
Events
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Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Greg Restall, “The Logic of Paradox as a Substructural Logic”
Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's QuadGraham Priest’s simple three-valued logic LP has many curious properties. It has the same valid formulas as classical logic, but differs from classical logic when it comes to valid sequents. The…
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Luna Guan: “Simplicity without Identity”
Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's QuadThe doctrine of divine simplicity serves two roles in Christian theology—it upholds the creator-creation distinction by saying that only the divine ontology is absolutely simple whereas every other created being…
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Christopher Masterman: “Are abstraction principles all that explanatory?””
Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's QuadAn increasingly popular view is that abstracta are thin—their existence alone makes little or no demand on the world. The most sophisticated defence of this view to date is the…
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Gill Russell: “Normativity, Neutrality, and Normativity and Neutrality”
Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's QuadNeutrality and normativity have both attracted attention in the recent philosophy of logic. In this paper I ask: can we consistently hold that logic is both non-neutral and non-normative when…
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Harry Vincent: “Must We Say What We May”
Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's QuadAbstract: Â Normative inferentialist approaches to semantics in the tradition of Robert Brandom have traditionally focused on challenging as the appropriate response to an unentitled claim in an assertion-based autonomous…
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Amie Thomasson: “Yeah to Truth, or: The functions of Truth Talk”
Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's QuadAbstract: What are the functions of the predicate ‘is true’ or the noun ‘truth’? Descriptivists assume that the predicate serves to describe a property, which propositions possess if they correspond to…