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Inconsistency and the Sorites Paradox (Otávio Bueno) 4:15 pm
Inconsistency and the Sorites Paradox (Otávio Bueno) @ CUNY Grad Center, 6494
Oct 1 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
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The Sorites paradox offers an unsettling situation in which, in light of its premises and the apparent validity of the argument, one may be inclined to take the argument to be sound. But this entails that vague concepts, ubiquitous and indispensable to express salient features of the world, are ultimately inconsistent, or at least the application conditions of these concepts seem to lead one directly into contradiction. In what follows, I argue that this inconsistent[...]
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The Gift and Weight of Genomic Knowledge: In Search of the Good Biocitizen
The Gift and Weight of Genomic Knowledge: In Search of the Good Biocitizen @ Feil Hall, Forchelli Conference Center, 22nd Floor
Oct 4 – Oct 5 all-day
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“This knowledge is irrevocable.” So reads an opening line in the terms-of-service agreement for 23andMe, a leading direct-to-consumer genetic testing company. This remarkable phrase attests to an increasing recognition of the role genomic knowledge plays in shaping human life. On the one hand, genomic knowledge is a gift, creating novel insights into the genetic drivers of disease and into the geographical paths of our ancestors. On the other, it is a weight, creating new obligations,[...]
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Brian Cross Porter – Kripke’s Fixed Point Construction and the V-Curry Paradox 2:00 pm
Brian Cross Porter – Kripke’s Fixed Point Construction and the V-Curry Paradox @ CUNY Grad Center, 3207
Oct 11 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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The Saul Kripke Center is delighted to announce that Brian Cross Porter (PhD student, CUNY) will give the second talk in our Young Scholars Series, on October 11th, 2pm – 4pm, in room 3207. The title is “Kripke’s Fixed Point Construction and the V-Curry Paradox.” The series is an opportunity for graduate students and early career faculty from throughout the CUNY system to present material on philosophy, computer science and linguistics that is connected to Saul’s work.
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology 5:30 pm
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology @ Icahn School @Mount Sinai, Annenberg 12-16
Oct 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
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Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted[...]
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Tableaux for Lewis’s V-family, Yale Weiss 4:15 pm
Tableaux for Lewis’s V-family, Yale Weiss @ CUNY Grad Center, 6494
Oct 15 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
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n his seminal work Counterfactuals, David Lewis presents a family of systems of conditional logic—his V-family—which includes both his preferred logic of counterfactuals (VC/C1) and Stalnaker’s conditional logic (VCS/C2). Graham Priest posed the problem of finding systems of (labeled) tableaux for logics from Lewis’s V-family in his Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (2008, p. 93). In this talk, I present a solution to this problem: sound and complete (labeled) tableaux for Lewis’s V-logics. Errors and shortcomings in recent work on this problem[...]
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Ontological Reductions of First Order Models, Alfredo Freire 4:15 pm
Ontological Reductions of First Order Models, Alfredo Freire @ CUNY Grad Center, 6494
Oct 22 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
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Since the discovery of the Loweinheim-Skolem theorem, it has been largely held that there is no purely formal way of fixing a model for any first order theory. Because of this, many have focused on having a relative account of models, establishing the expressive power of one model in its ability to internalize models for other theories. One can, for instance, define a plurality of models for PA from a given model for ZF, and[...]
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Evaluating Chronic Pain in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience 4:15 pm
Evaluating Chronic Pain in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience @ Faculty House, Columbia U
Oct 29 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
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Speakers: Amanda Pustilnik, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Tor Wager, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder Moderators: Federica Coppola, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University Lan Li, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University We will provide additional information as soon as possible. Free and open to the public, but RSVP is required via Eventbrite. This event is part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series.
Ground and Paradox, Boris Kment (Princeton) 4:15 pm
Ground and Paradox, Boris Kment (Princeton) @ CUNY Grad Center, 6494
Oct 29 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
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This paper discusses a cluster of interrelated paradoxes, including the semantic and property-theoretic paradoxes (such as the paradox of heterologicality), as well as the set-theoretic paradoxes and the Russell-Myhill paradox. I argue that an independently motivated theory of metaphysical grounding provides philosophically satisfying treatments of these paradoxes. It yields as corollaries a version of the iterative conception of set and an analogous solution to Russell-Myhill. Moreover, it generates a paracomplete solution to the property-theoretic paradoxes.[...]
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