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4:15 pm Logic and inference in the sender-receiver model. Shawn Simpson (Pitt) @ CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206
Logic and inference in the sender-receiver model. Shawn Simpson (Pitt) @ CUNY Grad Center Room 9205/9206
Mar 20 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
The sender-receiver model was developed by David Lewis to tackle the question of the conventionality of meaning. But many people who cared about the conventionality of meaning did so because they thought it was intimately connected to the conventionality of logic. Since Lewis’s work, only a few attempts have been made to say anything about the nature of logic and inference from the perspective of the sender-receiver model. This talk will look at the what’s[...]