Metaphysics and Logic group
Events
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Soroush Rafiee Rad, “Probabilities with Gaps and Gluts”
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsBelnap-Dunn logic (BD), sometimes also known as First Degree Entailment, is a four-valued propositional logic that complements the classical truth values of聽True聽and聽False聽with two non-classical truth values聽Neither聽and聽Both. The latter two are…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Justin D’Ambrosio, “The Meaning of ‘Means’”
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsAbstract:聽Semantic theories are supposed to be theories of meaning, so ascriptions of meaning should play a role in guiding and constraining our semantic theories. To play this role, however, we…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Giulia Schirripa, “How Could There Be Intedeterminacy in the Social World?”
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsAbstract: Contemporary metaphysics is a multi-faceted enterprise, enriched by a plurality of approaches that often lead to methodological conflicts. A central conundrum concerns the boundaries of realist metaphysics when the…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Patrick Todd, “The Open Future: ‘will’, negation, credence, and an extended error-theory”
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsIn Todd 2021 (The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False) I defended a kind of pragmatic “error-theory” regarding ordinary judgments about the interaction of ‘will’ and negation.聽 On…
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Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Sabina Dominguez Parrado, “What are logical pluralists pluralist about?”
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsAbstract: This talk clarifies and reassesses the scope of logical pluralism. I first argue that philosophers of logic often overlook an important distinction between the word聽鈥榲alid鈥�, the concept聽validity,聽and the property聽validity.…
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar: Inferentialism Reading Group: Viviane Fairbank Leads a Discussion on Murzi and Steinberger’s “Inferentialism”
Edgecliffe G03The Inferentialism Reading group is running over the first three seminars of this semester of M&L. On April 15th, Viviane Fairbank will be leading a discussion on Julien Murzi &…
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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar
Edgecliffe G03