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After Frege's famous discussion, philosophers and logicians have written extensively on the relationship between denial and negation. The workshop will focus on the logical connection between the two in the context of recent literature on how to treat denial in a formal setting. Among the critical questions are: Is denial best analysed as the assertion of a negation, or should it be introduced as a primitive speech act? Are there different notions of denial corresponding to logically distinct negations? Is there a relationship between logical consequence and rational demands imposed by the norms of assertion and denial? In particular, what is the connection between multiple-conclusion logic and assertion/denial?
The workshop will bring together international experts on these and related topics. The aim is to investigate novel extensions of the recent work on denial, with a specific emphasis on formal work. Arché will make a digest of the workshop available online to stimulate future discussion.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Colin Caret (St Andrews)
- Michael De (St Andrews)
- Greg Restall (Melbourne)
- Dave Ripley (Paris)
- Iam Rumfitt (Birkbeck, London)
- Peter Schroeder-Heister (Tübingen)
- Luca Tranchini (Tübingen)
- Heinrich Wansing (Dresden)
Workshop Schedule
Saturday, 24th
11.00 - 12.00 Dave Ripley "Embedding Denial"
12.30 -13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 Heinrich Wansing: "Assertions, denials, proofs,disproofs, and their duals"
15.00 -15.30 Coffee break
15.15 - 16.45 Luca Tranchini: "Falsificationism: Dualising proof-theoretic semantics"
16.45 - 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 - 18.30 Ian Rumfitt: "Bilateralism superseded"
Sunday, 25th
09.30 - 11.00 Peter Schroeder-Heister: "Assertion and Denial in Proof-Theoretic Semantics"
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.45 Michael De: "Assertion, Denial and two types of Consequence"
12.45 - 13.45 Lunch
13.45 - 15.15 Colin Caret: "Revenge Denied"
15.15 - 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 17.00 Greg Restall: "Derivation, Definition and Denial (together with some other speech acts)"
Abstracts are available here.
For further details, and registration, please contact: arche@st-and.ac.uk
Please notice that there will be a one day workshop on mereology on Monday 26 October. Further information is available here. |
