{"id":7570,"date":"2021-07-06T16:38:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/metaphysics-seminar-3\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T23:53:08","slug":"metaphysics-seminar-3","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/metaphysics-seminar-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysics Seminar Greg Restall (University of 58³Ô¹Ï)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title:\u00a0<b class=\"\">Worlds: Possible and Impossible<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\">Abstract: In this talk, I\u2019ll reflect on the role of worlds\u2014both <i class=\"\">possible <\/i><span class=\"\">worlds and <\/span><i class=\"\">impossible <\/i>worlds\u2014both in the\u00a0semantics of various kinds of languages and logics, and in broader issues in metaphysics. I will argue that, given very modest assumptions concerning the role of worlds in semantics, that any defender of <i class=\"\">possible worlds <\/i>in such a role should be\u00a0equally comfortable with <i class=\"\">impossible worlds<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">However, this argument for impossible worlds does\u00a0not transfer straightforwardly to\u00a0<i class=\"\">logically <\/i>impossible worlds. So, in the second part of the talk I will consider what we might say, for (or against) properly <i class=\"\">logically<\/i> impossible worlds.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title:\u00a0Worlds: Possible and Impossible Abstract: In this talk, I\u2019ll reflect on the role of worlds\u2014both possible worlds and impossible worlds\u2014both in the\u00a0semantics of various kinds of languages and logics, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[25],"class_list":["post-7570","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-metaphysics-and-logic-group","cat_metaphysics-and-logic-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8017,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7570\/revisions\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7570"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}