30-31 May 2019
London, England
Logic in London I https://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19477 30 May 2019, 1.00pm - 31 May 2019, 6.00pm Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU 30th May - G37. 31st May - Room 246. Workshop on Type-free Concepts The workshop brings together researchers working on the logic and the philosophy of type-free notions such as functions, classes, properties, and propositions. Due to the logical paradoxes, the traditional approach arranges such entities in hierarchies: type-theory and traditional set theory are well-known examples. The resulting picture has the obvious drawback of leaving out many legitimate objects. For instance, many innocuous circular properties and propositions cannot be assigned a place in the hierarchical approach. Similarly, it is not possible to accommodate propositions expressing quantification over all levels in a hierarchy. The aim of the workshop is to explore and compare different approaches to type-free notions that overcome such shortcomings. It will focus in particular on the formal frameworks employed to model them, and on their philosophical motivations and applications. Confirmed Speakers - Catrin Campbell-Moore (Bristol) - Andrea Cantini (Florence) - Laura Crosilla (Birmingham) - Øystein Linnebo (Oslo) - Beau Mount (Oxford) - Lavinia Picollo (UCL) - Thomas Schindler (Amsterdam) Call for Postgraduate Participants There will be some reserved slots for graduate students/recent graduates to speak at the workshop. (The number of slots is contingent on funding.) We welcome contributions on the topic of type-free concepts, broadly construed, including: ? logical and semantic paradoxes ? philosophical and formal aspects of theories of truth and predication ? formal and philosophical accounts of properties and propositions If you are interested please send an abstract of max. 1000 words to IP@sas.ac.uk by 15 April 2019. Please include you name, affiliation and the title of your paper in the body text of your email and use 'Abstract for London Logic Workshop [your name]' as the subject header. Your abstract should be sent as an attachment and should not contain your personal details so it can be passed onto the selection committee ready for anonymous review. For any queries about this call, please contact IP@sas.ac.uk Programme TBA This workshop is organized by Dr Lavinia Picollo (UCL), Dr Carlo Nicolai (KCL) and Dr Corine Besson (IP/Sussex). It aims to be the first of a ?Logic in London? series. The organisers wish to particularly thank UCL and the British Logic Colloquium for its generous support. To book a place, visit: https://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19477 -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam