Metaphysics and Logic group
Events
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Greg Restall, 鈥淚nferentialist Pre-Semantics for Truth-Conditional Semantics鈥�
This is the third of three sessions, on inferentialist semantics. Greg will be in Taiwan delivering the 2025 Wendy Huang Lectures, and these three sessions in the M&L seminar are…
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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鈥檚 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 鈥極n What There Is鈥�, discusses a problem that he calls the 鈥楶latonic riddle of nonbeing鈥�. The riddle is this: 鈥楴onbeing must in some sense be; otherwise what is…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Franz Berto, Bestimmte Negation (Or: What Is Hegel鈥檚 Dialectic?)
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsI think Hegel鈥檚 dialectic is, in Brandomian fashion, a very inferentialist theory of concepts.聽There鈥檚 conspicuous textual evidence that the majority of theoretical claims in the聽Phenomenology, the聽Science of Logic,聽the聽Encyclopaedia,聽are about conceptual…