20-21 Mar 2010
St. Andrews, Scotland
Foundations of Logical Consequence Workshop III: Propositions, Context and
Consequence
Arché, University of St. Andrews
Logical consequence has long been understood as a relation some things
are consequences of others but what are the relata: sentences,
propositions, utterances, or what? Distinct answers to this question raise
distinct problems. For example, if we say that the relata are utterances,
then issues of context and context-sensitive devices like demonstratives
and tenses may bear on the correct definition of logical consequence. How
are such phenomena to be systematically integrated into the theory of
logical consequence, and what is the impact of such considerations?
The workshop will bring together international experts on these and
related topics. The aim is to investigate new work on propositions and
context, with a specific emphasis on their relation to formal logic.
Saturday, March 20th
* 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
* 11.00-12.30 Hartley Slater A Perfect Language?
* 12.30-13.30 Lunch
* 13.30-15.00 Francesco Berto Impossible Worlds and Fine-Grained
Propositional Individuation
* 15.00-15.15 Break
* 15.15.-16.45 Elia Zardini (TBA)
* 16.45-17.00 Coffee Break
* 17.00-18.30 Martin Pleitz This sentence is not Trustworthy
* 19.45 Dinner at Zizzi
Sunday, March 21st
* 9.00-9.30 Coffee Break
* 9.30-11.00 Catarina Dutilh Novaes Context and Consequence: Mediev
al
and Modern Perspectives
* 11.00-11.15 Break
* 11.15-12.45 Walter Pedriali Situating Consequence 12.45-13.45
Lunch
* 13.45-15.15 Isidora Stojanovic Semantic Relativism and the Logic
of
Indexicals
* 15.15-15.30 Coffee Break
* 15.30-17.00 Stewart Shapiro Relativism About Logic
Abstracts are available here.
For further details please contact: arche@st-and.ac.uk
Registration is now available