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  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Hitoshi Omori (Ruhr-Universit盲t Bochum)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom

    Title: On American and Australian plans for negation Abstract: Francesco Berto, later joined by Greg Restall, defends a modal account of negation, or the Australian plan for negation. The aim of this talk is to carefully examine and compare Australian and American plans for negation. To this end, I will consider four cases, and draw…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Catarina Dutilh Novaes “Argumentation and a three-tiered model of epistemic exchange”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom

    Abstract: Argumentation is often contrasted with testimony in that in cases of testimony, an epistemic agent (presumably) primarily evaluates the trustworthiness of the source of information (the informant), whereas in argumentation there is (presumably) primarily engagement with the content communicated. I have argued however (Dutilh Novaes 2020) that trust and trustworthiness in fact play an…

  • Conceptual Engineering Seminar* | Frank Jackson (ANU): “Conceptual Engineering in Context”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom

    *Session jointly hosted with ARCH脡’s “Mind & Language” Research Group ABSTRACT. 鈥� We should all be supporters of conceptual聽engineering. I take that to be relatively uncontroversial. But why 鈥� exactly? That’s where the controversy starts. I give the answer I like, drawing on a view in metaphysics which explains why we need conceptual analyses (of…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Thomas Randriamahazaka (University of St. Andrews)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom

    Title: Truthmaker semantics for containment and nonsense Abstract: Conceptivism is the doctrine according to which a proposition cannot entail another proposition if the latter contains a concept which is not already contained in the former: entailment does not introduce any additional conceptual content. This doctrine motivates so-called containment logics, namely logics where a formula B…