Dear all, The first meeting of the Serious Metaphysics Group will take place tomorrow (October 21st) at 4.30-6pm on Zoom (details below). Owen Griffiths (Cambridge) will present a paper entitled 'The Collapse of Logical Pluralism' (co-authored with A.C. Paseau).
Abstract Logical pluralists contend that there is more than one equally correct logic. We argue that this is an unstable position. The logical pluralist needs to engage in metalogical reasoning and it is appropriate to ask which is the correct logic for this purpose. We will argue that they cannot satisfactorily answer this question. We focus on the pluralisms of Beall & Restall and Shaprio, and then generalise to all versions. We argue that the pluralist, such as Shapiro, who embraces a large number of logics, is left with an unacceptably weak metalogic. The more modest pluralist, such as Beall & Restall, avoids this problem but the logics they accept are unmotivated. We argue that, between these poles, there is no defensible logical pluralism. Topic: Serious Metaphysics Group 21/10/20 Time: Oct 21, 2020 04:30 PM London Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/97848093627?pwd=M1B6dk1FbGJSSFNnQS9CU3NJN01XQT09 Meeting ID: 978 4809 3627 Passcode: 762946 Best wishes, Wouter _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
