This Semester
- 9/10Logic Colloquium: Rashed Ahmad
Logic Colloquium: Rashed Ahmad
Friday, September 10th, 20212:30 PM - 4:00 PMStorrs Campustba
Join us for the first Logic Colloquium of the semester:
Rashed Ahmad:
"A Recipe for Paradox (A Better Schema than the Inclosure Schema)"
Abstract:
In this paper, we provide a recipe that not only captures the common structure between semantic paradoxes, but it also captures our intuitions regarding the relations between these paradoxes. Before we unveil our recipe, we first talk about a popular schema introduced by Graham Priest, namely, the inclosure schema. Without rehashing previous arguments against the inclosure schema, we contribute different arguments for the same concern that the inclosure schema bundles the wrong paradoxes together. That is, we will provide alternative arguments on why the inclosure schema is both too broad for including the Sorites paradox, and too narrow for excluding Curry’s paradox.
We then spell out our recipe. Our recipe consists of three ingredients: (1) a predicate that has two specific rules, (2) a simple method to find a partial negative modality, and (3) a diagonal lemma that would allow us to let sentences be their partial negative modalities. The recipe shows that all of the following paradoxes share the same structure: The Liar, Curry’s paradox, Validity Curry, Provability Liar, a paradox leading to Löb’s theorem, Knower’s paradox, Knower’s Curry, Grelling-Nelson’s paradox, Russell’s paradox in terms of extensions, alternative liar and alternative Curry, and other new paradoxes.
We conclude the paper by stating the lessons that we can learn from the recipe, and what kind of solutions does the recipe suggest if we want to adhere to the Principle of Uniform Solution.
https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/ - 10/1Logic Colloquium: Dilip Ninan (Tufts)
Logic Colloquium: Dilip Ninan (Tufts)
Friday, October 1st, 20212:30 PM - 4:00 PMStorrs Campustba
Join us for the Logic Colloquium
Dilip Ninan (Tufts)
“An Expressivist Theory of Taste Predicates”
Abstract:
Simple taste predications typically come with an ‘acquaintance requirement’: they normally require the speaker to have had a certain kind of first-hand experience with the object of predication. For example, if I told you that the crème caramel is delicious, you would ordinarily assume that I have actually tasted the crème caramel and am not simply relying on the testimony of others. The present essay argues in favor of a ‘lightweight' expressivist account of the acquaintance requirement. This account consists of a recursive semantics and a ‘supervaluational’ account of assertion; it is compatible with a number of different accounts of truth and content, including contextualism, relativism, and purer forms of expressivism. The principal argument in favor of this account is that it correctly predicts a wide range of data concerning how the acquaintance requirement interacts with Boolean connectives, generalized quantifiers, epistemic modals, and attitude verbs.
All welcome!
https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/ - 11/3Brown Bag: Marcus Rossberg & Shay Logan, "A Fine Semantics For Relevant Second-Order Logic"
- 11/12Logic Colloquium: Richard Zach (Calgary)
Logic Colloquium: Richard Zach (Calgary)
Friday, November 12th, 20212:30 PM - 4:00 PMStorrs Campusonline
Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by
Richard Zach (Calgary).
Details: t.b.a.
https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/ - 11/19Logic Colloquium: Julien Murzi (Salzburg)
Logic Colloquium: Julien Murzi (Salzburg)
Friday, November 19th, 202110:00 AM - 11:30 AMStorrs Campustba
Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by
Julien Murzi (Salzburg)
Details: t.b.a.
https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/ - 12/3Logic Colloquium: Damian Szmuc (Buenos Aires)
Logic Colloquium: Damian Szmuc (Buenos Aires)
Friday, December 3rd, 20212:30 PM - 4:00 PMStorrs Campustba
Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by
Damian Szmuc (Buenos Aires / IIF-SADAF, CONICET)
Details: t.b.a.
https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/ - 12/3Linguistics Colloquium: Kathryn Davidson (Harvard)
- 12/10Logic Colloquium: S. Florio, S. Shapiro, E. Snyder: Definitional Equivalence And Plural Logic
Logic Colloquium: S. Florio, S. Shapiro, E. Snyder: Definitional Equivalence And Plural Logic
Friday, December 10th, 20212:30 PM - 4:00 PMStorrs Campusonline
Join us for the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Salvatore Florio, Stewart Shapiro, and Eric Snyder on definitional equivalence and plural logic.
All welcome.
