Dear all, This is a reminder that Hartry Field (NYU) will be giving a talk at the Moral Sciences Club today (at 5:15pm in the *Boys Smith Room*, St. John's College) entitled "Truth, Vagueness and Restricted Quantification". An Abstract is provided below.
For more information, including details about our fees, and our 2013-2014 programme, please visit our website at http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best, Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena ABSTRACT: There are strong pressures to restrict classical logic in connection with notions like truth (in "paradoxical constructions" such as Liar sentences), and to a lesser extent in connection with vagueness. But what is the non-classical logic to be like? A hitherto underappreciated problem is getting a logic that adequately deals with restricted quantification; the standard logics of vagueness, and previous work by myself and others on the logic of the paradoxes, all fail miserably on restricted quantification. About half the talk will be a review of some motivations for going non-classical on these problems; the rest will be on the special problems posed by restricted quantification, with a gesture toward a solution. (I do have a solution, available on my website for anyone interested ("Naive Truth and Restricted Quantification: Saving Truth a Whole Lot Better"), but it is rather technical and I won't give very much detail about it in the lecture.) -- Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc
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