Metaphysics and Logic group
Events
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Christopher Masterman: “Are abstraction principles all that explanatory?””
Edgecliffe G03An 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 G03Neutrality 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 G03Abstract: 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 G03Abstract: 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…
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar
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