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Metaphysics & Logic Seminar Dr. Ole Hjortland: Logical Pluralism Without Collapse

1st June 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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Abstract: I will present a new counterexample to the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles in the form of a world allowing for incompatible time-lines (or histories). The toy-universe I will be working with will be interpreted according to the Branching Space-Time Theory, presented for the first time in Belnap (1992). In this sense, I aim to show that Belnap’s Theory, when interpreted as a strong metaphysical theory of indeterminism, admits the construction of scenarios contravening PII. The counterexample I will be presenting will be tested against the three most famous lines of defence of the Principle, as presented in Hawley (2009): the identity defence, the discerning defence, and the summing defence. It will be shown that, unlike other alleged counterexamples to PII, it proves successful against all these lines of defence.

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Date:
1st June 2020
Time:
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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A virtual seminar by Zoom
The University
St Andrews, KY16 9L United Kingdom
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