The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Feb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)
Feb 12. NO MEETING
Feb 19. NO MEETING
Feb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)
Mar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)
Mar 11. Otávio Bueno (Miami)
Mar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)
Mar 25. Dan Marshall (Lingnan)
Apr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)
Apr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)
Apr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)
Apr 22. NO MEETING
Apr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm)
May 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)
Facts about the increasing collective human influence on biological systems, from local ecosystems to planetary-level Earth systems, support the proposal that we now live in the Anthropocene. What do such facts imply, if anything, about norms and values guiding land management and conservation practices going forward? Do facts about anthropogenic drivers that can result in undesirable and irreversible changes to ecological and Earth systems license further intentional interventions and underwrite calls for “planetary management”? What would appropriate respect for wildness look like on a human-dominated planet? If human influence on environmental systems pushes them over thresholds into radically new states, are received Western or Indigenous ideologies sufficient to guide an appropriate response? How should we think about responding to such radical environmental change? How, if at all, should environmental ethics adapt to the Anthropocene?
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 unless otherwise indicated. Talks will be in-person only at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 7395). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Feb 5. Roman Kossak (CUNY)
Feb 12. NO MEETING
Feb 19. NO MEETING
Feb 26. Matteo Plebani (Turin)
Mar 4. Elise Crull (CUNY)
Mar 11. Otávio Bueno (Miami)
Mar 18. Michał Godziszewski (Warsaw)
Mar 25. Dan Marshall (Lingnan)
Apr 1. Andrew Tedder (Vienna)
Apr 8. Asya Passinsky (CEU)
Apr 15. Jessica Collins (Columbia)
Apr 22. NO MEETING
Apr 29. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm)
May 6. Lorenzo Rossi (Turin)
The Saul Kripke Center is pleased to announce that James Walsh (Assistant Professor, Philosophy, NYU) will deliver a talk on Friday, May 10th, 2024, from 4:15 to 6:15 pm at the CUNY Graduate Center (Room 9207). The talk is free and open to all.
Title: Modal definability and Kripke’s theory of truth
Abstract: In Outline of a Theory of Truth, Kripke introduces some of the central concepts of the logical study of truth and paradox. He informally defines some of these–such as groundedness and paradoxicality–using modal locutions. We introduce a modal language for regimenting Kripke’s informal definitions and characterize the modally definable sets. Though groundedness and paradoxicality are expressible in the modal language, we prove that intrinsicality–which Kripke emphasizes but does not define modally–is not.