Current Debates in the Philosophy of Logic Seminar
These are generally pre-read sessions where the authors are invited to partecipate in a 2-hours discussion of the key ideas of their paper and closely related topics.
2022-23 Schedule
04/11/2022, 2-4pm CET — S. Florio & S. Shapiro & E. Snyder: “Logic and Empirical Semantics”
11/11/2022 — 4-6pm CET — P. Maddy’s “How to be a Naturalist about Logic”
18/11/2022, 4-6pm CET — L. Rossi: “Classical Approaches to Semantic Paradox”
25/11/2022, 4-6pm CET — No Seminar
02/12/2022, 4-6pm CET — A. Paseau & O. Griffiths: “Logical Validity: Model-Theoretic and Proof-Theoretic Conceptions”
09/12/2022, 4-6pm CET — F. Ferrari & U. Hlobil: “Logical Normativity”
16/12/2022, 4-6pm CET — G. Priest: “Philosophical issues on non-classical logics”
13/01/2023, 4-6pm CET — J. Leech: “The Identity of Necessity”
20/01/2023, 4-6pm CET — T. Takho: “Logical Realism”
27/01/2023, 4-6pm CET — D. Tajer: “Logic, Reasoning, and Cognitive Science”
03/02/2023, 4-6pm CET — S. Speitel: “Logical constants”
10/02/2023, 4-6pm CET — T. Williamson: “Is Logic about Validity?”
17/02/2023, 4-6pm CET — G. Sher: “Logical Structuralism”
24/02/2023, 4-6pm CET — M. Eklund: “Logical Pluralism”
03/03/2023, 4-6pm CET — G. Schurz: “Logic and the Natural Sciences”
10/03/2023, 4-6pm CET — TBC
17/03/2023, 4-6pm CET — F. Boccuni & A. Sereni: “The Logic of Abstraction”
24/03/2023, 4-6pm CET — G. Sagi: “Logical Consequence”
31/03/2023, 4-6pm CET — R. Cook: “Logic as Modelling”
14/04/2023, 4-6pm CET — S. Negri: “Syntax and semantics in logical calculi”
21/04/2023, 4-6pm CET — F. Zaffora Blando: “Logic and Probability”
28/04/2023, 4-6pm CET — G. Del Pinal: ”Logic and natural language”
05/05/2023, 6-8pm CEST — S. Bobzien: “The Logic of Vagueness”
12/05/2023, 4-6pm CEST — J. Kennedy & J. Väänänen: “The scope of logic”
19/05/2023, 4-6pm CEST — E. Brendel: “Non-classical approaches to Semantic Paradoxes”
26/05/2023, 4-6pm CEST — J. Murzi: “Naïve semantic notions and paradox”
09/06/2023, 4-6pm CEST — E. Zardini: “What Is a Substructural Solution to a Paradox?”
16/06/2023, 4-6pm CEST — A. Hattiangadi: “Logical Disagreement”
2021-22 Schedule
Topic #2 — Paradoxes
11/02/2022, 2-4pm CET — Plebani, M. (2021). Wittgenstein and the philosophical significance of not solving the paradoxes. Philosophical Inquiries 9(2). https://doi.org/10.4454/philinq.v9i2.301
18/02/2022, 2-4pm CET — Terzian, G. (2021). Sets, lies, and analogy: a new methodological take. Philosophical Studies 178(9): 2759-2784. 10.1007/s11098-020-01579-9
25/02/2022, 4-6pm CET — Simmons, K. (2022). Paradoxes of validity. Philosophical Studies. 10.1007/s11098-021-01663-8
04/03/2022, 2-4pm CET — Sagi, G. (2017). Contextualism, Relativism and the Liar. Erkenntnis 82(4): 913-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-016-9850-6
11/03/2022, 2-4pm CET — Pinder, M. (2018). How to find an attractive solution to the liar Paradox. Philosophical Studies, 175(7): 1661–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-017-0928-z
18/03/2022, 2-4pm CET — Martin, B. (WiP). How Paradoxes inform Logic.
25/03/2022, 2-4pm CET — Murzi, J. & Rossi, L. (WiP). Bicontextualism.
01/04/2022, 2-4pm CEST — Mankowitz, P. (2021). The Liar Without Relativism. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-020-00350-0
06/04/2022, 2-4pm CEST — Zardini, E. (WiP). The Final Cut.
22/04/2022, 2-4pm CEST — Liggins, D. (2019) In Defence of Radical Restrictionism. PPR. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12391.
29/04/2022, 2-4pm CEST — Glanzberg, M. (2021) Unrestricted Quantification and Extraordinary Context Dependence? Phil Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01746-6
06/05/2022, 4-6pm CEST — Fine, K. (2020) Vagueness. Oxford University Press.
13/05/2022 , 4-6pm CEST — Cobreros, P. & Tranchini, L. (2019) “Supervaluationism, Subvaluationism and the Sorites”, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316683064.003
20/05/2022, 2-4pm CEST — Barnett, Z. (2019) Tolerance and the Distributed Sorites, Synthese, 196, 1071–77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1499-4
27/05/2022, 2-4pm CEST — Jerzak, E. (2019) “Non-classical Knowledge”, PPR 98(1): 190-220, https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12448
03/06/2022, 2-4pm CEST — Paganini, E. (WiP). “Linguistic Vague Existence”.
10/06/2022, *5-7pm* CEST — Sher, G. (WiP). “A New Solution to the Liar”.
17/06/2022, 2-4pm CEST — Bokros, S. (WiP). “The Epistemic View on Paradox”
24/06/2022, 2-4pm CEST — Williams, R. (2016). “Vagueness as Indecision”, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 90, 285-309, https://doi.org/10.1093/arisup/akw001
01/07/2022, 2-4pm CEST — Greenough, P. (2022) “Neutralism and the Observational Sorites Paradox”, Synthese.
08/07/2022, *11-13* CEST — Carrara, M. & Fassio, D. (WiP) “Self-effacing reasons and epistemic constraints: some lessons from the Knowability Paradox”
15/07/2022, *3-5pm* CEST — Whittle, B. (2017) “Truth, Hierarchy and Incoherence”, in Reflections on the Liar (ed. by Bradley Armour-Garb), OUP.
Topic #1 — Topics in Logical Pluralism
08/10/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Caret, C. (2019). Why Logical Pluralism? Synthese 198: pp. 4947–68. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02132-w
15/10/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Stei, E. (2020). Disagreement About Logic From a Pluralist Perspective. Philosophical Studies 177: 3329–50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-019-01372-3
22/10/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Terrés Villalonga, P. (2019). From Natural to Formal Language: A Case for Logical Pluralism. Topoi 38: 333–45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-017-9490-8
29/10/2021, *3-5pm* CEST — Kouri-Kissel, T. (2018). Logical Pluralism from a Pragmatist Perspective. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96: 578–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1399151
5/11/2021, 2-4pm CET — Ferrari, F. & E. Orlandelli (2021) Proof-theoretic pluralism. Synthese 198: 4879–903. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02217-6.
12/11/2021, *4-6pm* CET — Blake-Turner, C. (2021), Reasons, Basing, and the Normative Collapse of Logical Pluralism. Philosophical Studies. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01638-9
19/11/2021, 2-4pm CET — Dicher, B. (2020) Variations on intra-theoretical logical pluralism. Philosophical Studies 177: 667–86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1199-z
*24/11/2021, 4-6pm* CET — Shapiro, S. (2014) Varieties of Logic, Oxford University Press (Chapters 1-2)
03/12/2021, 2-4pm CET — Eklund, M. (2020). Making sense of logical pluralism. Inquiry 63:433–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2017.1321499
10/12/2021, 2-4pm CET — Greg Restall on “Proofs with Star and Perp: pluralism and proofs for different logics” (presentation)
2020-21 Schedule
Topic #1 — Topics in the Methodology of Logic
5/2/2021, 2-4pm CET — Hlobil, U. (2020). The Limits of Abductivism about Logic. PPR (Online first: https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12707)
12/2/2021, 2-4pm CET — Martin, B. & Hjortland, O. (2020). Logical Predictivism. JPL (Online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-020-09566-5)
19/2/2021, 2-4pm CET — Titelbaum, M. (forthcoming). Normative Modeling (Methods in Analytic Philosophy: A Contemporary Reader. J. Horvath ed. The PhilPapers Foundation)
26/2/2021, 2-4pm CET — Payette, G. & Wyatt, N. (2018) How Do Logics Explain? AJP, 96: 157–67
5/3/2021, 2-6pm CET — First Brainstorming Session on Methodological Issues
Part#2 — Topics in the Epistemology of Logic
12/3/2021, 2-4pm CET — Wright, C. (2018) Logical Non-Cognitivism. Philosophical Issues, 8: 425–50. doi: 10.1111/phis.12132
19/3/2021, 2-4pm CET — Besson, C. (work in progress) Normativity and the Logic Makes the Mind Move View.
26/3/2021, 2-4pm CET — Woods, J. (2019) Against Reflective Equilibrium for Logical Theorizing. Australasian Journal of Logic, 16: 319–41.
09/4/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Padro, R. (work in progress) The Adoption Problem and the Epistemology of Logic.
16/4/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Rossberg, M. & Shapiro, S. (2021) Logic and Science: Science and Logic. Synthese (Online first: doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03076-w)
23/4/2021, 2-5pm CEST — Second Brainstorming Session of Epistemological Issues
Part#3 — Topics in the Metaphysics of Logic
30/4/2021, 2-4pm CEST— Pelletier, F.J., Elio, R. & Hanson, P. (2008) Is Logic all in our Heads? Studia Logica, 86: 1–65
7/5/2021, 5-7pm CEST— Sher, G. (2021) Invariance as a Basis for Necessity and Laws (in Logic and Science), forthcoming in Phil Studies
14/5/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Russell, G. (2018) Logical Nihilism: Could there be no Logic?, Phil. Issues, 28: 308–324
21/5/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Williamson, T. (2014) Logic, Metalogic and Neutrality, Erkenntnis 79: 211-231 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-013-9474-z)
28/5/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Warren, J. (2016) Revisiting Quine on Truth by Convention, Journal of Philosophical Logic (DOI 10.1007/s10992-016-9396-8)
Part#4 — Topics in the Normativity of Logic
11/6/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Steinberger, F. (2019). Consequence and normative guidance. PPR 98 (2): 306-328 doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12434
18/6/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Russell, G. (2017). Logic isn’t normative. Inquiry 63 (3-4): 371–388 doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2017.1372305
25/6/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Tajer, D. (2020). The Normative Autonomy of Logic. Erkenntnis, doi.org/10.1007/s10670-020-00321-5
2/7/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Bradley, D. (2021). Ought-contextualism and reasoning. Synthese, doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02918-3
9/7/2021, 2-4pm CEST — Shaw J. (work in progress). Inference and Logic.
EuPhiLog Work in Progress Workshop (Schedule)
16/7/2021, 10-18pm CEST — Day One
10–11 CEST — Erik Stei: The Demise of Domain-Dependence (pre-read)
11–12 CEST — Colin Caret: Uniformity and Impossible Worlds (presentation)
14–15 CEST — Corine Besson: Knowing How to Reason Logically (pre-read)
15–16 CEST — Gil Russell: How to Prove Hume’s Law (presentation)
16:30–17:30 CEST — Gila Sher: What does it mean, and what does it not mean, to be an anti-exceptionalist about logic (presentation)
23/7/2021, 10-18pm CEST — Day Two
10–11 CEST — Filippo Ferrari & Sebastiano Moruzzi: Logical Anti-Exceptionalism & Logical Normativity (pre-read)
11–12 CEST — Gil Sagi: Paradox, Formalization and Norms (presentation)
14–15 CEST — Ole Hjortland & Ben Martin: Metaphysical and Epistemological Anti-Exceptionalism (pre-read)
15–16 CEST — Jack Woods: TBA (presentation)
16:30–17:30 — Ulf Hlobil: The Laws of Thought and the Laws of Truth as Two Sides of One Logical Coin (pre-read)
17:30–18:30 — Romina Padro: TBA (presentation)
European Network for the Philosophy of Logic 