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Phenomenology of Probability, Noah Greenstein (ME!)
4:15 pm
Phenomenology of Probability, Noah Greenstein (ME!)
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 3209
Oct 2 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
An account of fairness and probability is given using Game Theoretical Semantics to schematize fairness as a “draw” result of a logical game. The two concepts of probability — objective frequency vs. subjective belief — are then described as differences in game strategy. Lastly the logical machinery is used to potentially bridge the gap between the two, giving perspective on the problem of induction. Logic and Metaphysics Workshop Fall 2017: September 11 Lovett, NYU September[...]
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Society for the Metaphysics of Science 3rd Annual Conference
Society for the Metaphysics of Science 3rd Annual Conference
@ Fordham University
Oct 5 – Oct 7 all-day
SEE PROGRAM HERE Society for the Metaphysics of Science 3rd Annual Conference Fordham University After its successful first meeting at Rutgers University, Newark in 2015, and even more successful second meeting at the University of Geneva in 2016, the Society for the Metaphysics of Science (SMS) will be holding its third annual conference on October 5-7, 2017 at Fordham University. Our keynote speaker will be Michael Strevens (NYU) In addition, Jessica Wilson (U Toronto) will[...]
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Conditionals with Impossible Antecedents – Dave Ripley (UConn)
4:15 pm
Conditionals with Impossible Antecedents – Dave Ripley (UConn)
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 3209
Oct 16 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Abstract: Many existing theories of counterfactual conditionals are committed to the claim that every counterfactual with an impossible antecedent is true. Call such conditionals “counterpossibles”, and this claim about them “vacuism”. As has long been noted, vacuism goes against many speakers’ intuitions. Some vacuists, for example David Lewis, have simply denied this, claiming that speakers do not in fact take any counterpossibles to be false. More recently, another vacuist, Timothy Williamson, has accepted that speakers[...]
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Theories of Entailment – Ed Mares, Wellington (NZ)
4:15 pm
Theories of Entailment – Ed Mares, Wellington (NZ)
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 3209
Oct 23 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
One traditional role of a logic of entailment is as a set of closure principles for theories. Looking at logics in this way, and as theories themselves, can be very interesting. A logic determines a closure operator (in Tarski’s sense) on sets of formulas. The theories generated by a closure operator themselves (sometimes) determine closure operators. Looking at the space of theories generated by a “master theory”, and the interaction of the closure operators that[...]
Lady-Parts and Baby-Containers: The Metaphysics of Pregnancy – Suki Finn (Southampton)
6:30 pm
Lady-Parts and Baby-Containers: The Metaphysics of Pregnancy – Suki Finn (Southampton)
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 5489
Oct 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Lady-Parts and Baby-Containers: The Metaphysics of Pregnancy – Suki Finn, University of Southampton, UK Sponsored by New York Society for Women in Philosophy
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Constructive Expressivism, Jack Woods, Bristol
4:15 pm
Constructive Expressivism, Jack Woods, Bristol
@ CUNY Grad Center, rm 3209
Oct 30 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Abstract: It is a curious historical accident that emotivists, prescriptivists, and their mutual successor ethical expressivism have aimed to preserve classical logic. Given their flirtations—and sometimes outright affairs—with anti-realism, one would have suspected some expressivist or other would have bitten the bullet and argued that a logic of attitudes or force was, in fact, not a classical logic. Though there has been an occasional glance at mildly non-classical logics, like the various iterations of Kleene[...]
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