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Substructural Approaches to Paradox

25-26 Nov 2013
Barcelona, Spain

Workshop Announcement

SUBSTRUCTURAL APPROACHES TO PARADOX, Barcelona 25?26 November 2013

Organisers: Elia Zardini, Jos Martnez (LOGOS, University of Barcelona)

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TOPIC

Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the application of 
substructural logics as a crucial component of philosophically motivated 
solutions to traditionally intractable paradoxes like the semantic 
paradoxes and the paradoxes of vagueness. Such solutions have proved to 
offer new valuable insights into those paradoxes, complementing those 
provided by more ?traditional? non- substructural solutions that also 
revise classical logic. The workshop proposes to take stock of the current 
trends in this thriving area of philosophy of logic.

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PROGRAMME

Monday 25 November

10.00?11.30: Peter Schrder-Heister, Luca Tranchini, ?Ekman?s Paradox?

11.50?13.20: Julien Murzi, ?Contraction-Freedom, Instability and Revenge?

15.00?16.30: Lionel Shapiro, ?How and Why to Get One?s Head around 
Noncontractive Responses to Paradox?

16.50?18.20: Elia Zardini, ?A and Omega?


Tuesday 26 November

10.00?11.30: Pablo Cobreros, Paul gr, Dave Ripley, Robert van Rooij, 
?Interpreting and Reasoning Pragmatically with Vague Expressions?

11.50?13.20: Heather Burnett, ?Vague Predication, Definiteness and 
Distributivity?

15.00?16.30: Francesco Paoli, ?Sorites Paradox: Substructural Logics Meet 
Truth Degrees?

16.50?18.20: Alan Weir, ?Could Entailment Be Non-Transitive? A Comparison 
of Some Recent Views?

Please notice that all titles are tentative. The workshop will take place 
at the Faculty of Philosophy (room: Seminari de filosofia), carrer 
Montalegre 6, Barcelona. Registration is free, but if you plan to attend 
you must let Paco Murcia know at: logos.barcelona at gmail.com

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The workshop is organised in the framework of E. Zardini?s Marie Curie 
Project ?A Non-Contractive Theory of Naive Semantic Properties: Logical 
Developments and Metaphysical Foundations? and is generously co-funded by 
LOGOS, by the projects ?Reference, Self-Reference and Empirical Data? 
(coordinated by J. Martnez) and ?The Makings of Truth? (coordinated by D. 
Lpez de Sa) and by the Workpackage B2 ?Issues in Semantics? (coordinated 
by M. Klbel) of PERSP.