Dear All, Next Tuesday (13th November) Owen Griffiths, from the University of Cambridge, will give a talk entitled 'Introducing identity'.
The meeting will start at 5.15pm and will be held in the Fisher Building of St. John's College in either the Boys Smith Room, the Dirac Room, or the Castlereagh Room. As usual, the speaker will present for no longer than 45 minutes, followed by a discussion until 7.00pm. If you would like to join Owen for dinner after the talk, then please let me know by noon on Tuesday. The abstract is as follows: Inferentialists attempt to give the meanings of expressions in terms of their introduction and elimination rules, and a usual starting point is the logical constants. I present a problem for inferentialism, namely that it cannot account for our talk of identity. I will also discuss the identity of indiscernibles, the criteria for logical constanthood, and ways in which we can account for identity if we reject inferentialism. Regards, Daniel Brigham Secretary of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
