Dear all, The Moral Sciences Club's next meeting will be held on Tuesday 9th May. We are delighted to welcome Professor Ian Rumfitt (Birmingham), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Truth'. Here is the abstract:
P.F. Strawson explained truth, as it applies to statements, by saying: 'one who makes a statement or assertion makes a true statement if and only if things are as, in making that statement, he states them to be'. This explanation differs from others in taking a statement's having a content (its saying that things are thus-and-so) to be a presupposition of an attribution of truth to that statement. I show how this feature opens the way to a distinctive response to the Liar Paradox and to an underpinning of the axiomatic theories of truth now favoured by many logicians. The meeting will be held at 2:30 until 4:15, in the Barbara White Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. For those who have not yet paid, there is a yearly membership fee of £7.50 for students and £15 for others, or a one-off fee of £3 (£2 for students). These can be purchased online at: http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=75&prodvarid=87 -- Matt Dougherty, James Hutton, and Li Li Tan Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ 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 Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
