Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: NO MEETING
No meeting due to the concurrent CEPPA Fest.
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.
Pre-read session: Dorr, C. (2016), To Be F Is To Be G. Philosophical Perspectives, 30: 39-134. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12079
Pre-read session: Dorr, C. (2016), To Be F Is To Be G. Philosophical Perspectives, 30: 39-134. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12079
© The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013532.