Metaphysics Seminar Roy Sorensen (University of Texas at Austin)
Title: Plural Quantification and Perjury Abstract: Since the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, a prosecutor in the United States can prove perjury by virtue of...
Title: Plural Quantification and Perjury Abstract: Since the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, a prosecutor in the United States can prove perjury by virtue of...
No meeting due to May bank holiday.
Reading group session on an unpublished draft of the Introduction of the book Barriers to Entailment, authored by Gillian Russell.
Given a theory – e.g., in mathematics, theology, physics, sociology, political theory – what is it for the objects of that theory to be identical?...
Given a theory – e.g., in mathematics, theology, physics, sociology, political theory – what is it for the objects of that theory to be identical?...
Over the past fifteen years the epistemology of disagreement has been one of the most widely discussed research topics in epistemology. A special case of...
Over the past fifteen years the epistemology of disagreement has been one of the most widely discussed research topics in epistemology. A special case of...
Correspondence as Convenient Friction: In this talk, I use Huw Price’s paper “Truth as Convenient Friction” (2003) as a blueprint for arguing that the correspondence...
TITLE: On Qualitative Properties ABSTRACT: In his Possible Worlds, Divers (2002:349) complains: "I know of no detailed discussion of the qualitative/non-qualitative distinction for properties". This is surprising given the...