1st Workshop in the Anti-Exceptionalism Project: Logic as science
The Department of Philosophy is hosting a workshop entitled `Logic as science' November 18-19th 2016.
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According to W. V. Quine's聽Two Dogmas of Empiricism, logic is a science. Like theories in physics, economics, and biology, logical theories may be revised, and sometimes even as a result of empirical evidence. In advocating a gradualism between logic and the empirical sciences, Quine subverts the foundationalist ambitions of logic. Logic cannot be justified聽a priori, nor are the truths of logic analytic.聽
Quine's anti-exceptionalism about logic has opened up a series of important questions. What are logical theories theories of? What counts as evidence for such theories? What are the criteria for theory choice in logic? Do these criteria, whatever they are, favour classical logic or nonclassical logic? And what is left of the normative status of logic if we accept Quine's gradualism?
PROGRAMME
Se attachment below for official programme and abstracts.
Friday 18th November
- 09:00聽聽 Welcome
- 09:15聽聽 Ole Hjortland (Bergen), What counts as evidence for a logical theory?
- 10:30聽聽 Break
- 10:45聽聽 Graham Priest (CUNY/Melbourne), Counterfactuals and theory choice
- 12:00听听
- 13:15聽聽 James Levine (Trinity College Dublin), Russell, set theory and the revision of logic
- 14:30聽聽 Break
- 14:45聽聽 Bruno Jacinto (Arch茅, St Andrews), Logic, abductive methdology and theory comparison
- 16:00聽聽 Break
- 16:15聽聽 Gillian Russell (UNC Chapel Hill), Logical vice
Saturday 19th November
- 09:00聽聽 Morning Coffee
- 09:15聽聽 Paal Antonsen (Bergen), Truth in a model
- 10:30聽聽 Break
- 10:45聽聽 Jack Woods (Leeds), Logical partisanhood
- 12:00听听
- 13:15聽聽 Suki Finn (Southampton), The adoption problem and self-referential logical rules
- 14:30聽聽 Break
- 14:45聽聽 脴ystein Linnebo (Oslo), Ontology and the logic of identity
- 19:30听听
If you need any assistance, please call (+47) 947 97 808 (Paal Antonsen)
