Dear all, This is just to remind you that the third meeting of the Graduate seminar this term will take place tomorrow. Fredrik Nyseth will be giving a paper entitled 'Conventionalism and Differing Logics'. An abstract is attached below.
We will be starting at 4.30pm and finishing at about 6.00pm in the Graduate common room. Afterwards we'll head to the Red Bull. Hope to see you all there, Carlo Abstract: My aim is to explore a possible tension within the conventionalist approach to logical necessity (and analyticity more generally), according to which the statements of logic are true due to the conventional stipulations that define the terms occurring in them. The possible tension has to do with the idea that we have a choice between different "logics", and the worry is that a conventionalist approach both i) presupposes that we have a choice between genuinely different logics, and ii) undermines the possibility of giving an account of how to make sense of such a choice, given that, according to the conventionalist approach, a change in logic would have to amount to a change in the meaning of the relevant logical constants. I should say, though, that what I hope to do is not so much to argue conclusively that there is such a tension, but rather to first motivate the idea that there is reason to worry that there might be, and then explore the conventionalist position in light of this worry.' _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
