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Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
Massimiliano Carrara University of Padua Denial: a Logic, a Paradox and a Dilemma 10 November 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: How glut-theorists may express disagreement with the assertion of A if Boolean negation cannot be expressed in their language? A glut-theorist’s answer is by denying or […]
Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
Bogdan Dicher LANCOG Universidade de Lisboa The Original Sin of Proof-Theoretic Semantics (joint work with Francesco Paoli) 3 November 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Logical inferentialists hold that the meaning of the logical constants is determined by the rules of inference which govern their behaviour in […]
Núcleo de Estudos Simmelianos da Universidade de Lisboa
O Núcleo de Estudos Simmelianos da Universidade de Lisboa, associado ao grupo PRAXIS do Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, pretende dar a conhecer e debater o pensamento do filósofo Georg Simmel através de sessões de estudo e conferências. Estas sessões serão quinzenais, estando divididas em duas modalidades: uma de estudo e troca de […]
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Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
Juhani Yli-Vakkuri Bielefeld University Modals and Conditionals are Ambiguous 27 October 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Following Angelika Kratzer’s classic work on modals and conditionals, the consensus in natural language semantics is that modals and conditionals (which are often thought to be a kind of modal) […]
Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
Catarina Dutilh Novaes University of Groningen The Beauty(?) of Mathematical Proofs 20 October 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Mathematicians often use aesthetic vocabulary to describe mathematical proofs: they can be beautiful, elegant, ugly, etc. In recent years, philosophers of mathematics have begun to ask themselves what […]
Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
Catarina Dutilh Novaes University of Groningen The Social Epistemology of Argumentation 16 October 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Humans are famously a highly social species, and without collaboration with conspecifics a human being stands no chance to survive. At the same time, we compete with one […]
Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
João Pinheiro Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa The True-Fit Thesis and its Prime Corollary 13 October 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: According to interactivism, autonomous systems are those that maintain a non-stationary stability outside of thermodynamic equilibrium in virtue of interactions with […]
Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
Dan López de Sa University of Barcelona Significant Verbal Disputes and So-Called “Metalinguistic Negotiations” 06 October 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Some disputes are verbal—in metaphysics (and philosophy) as well as elsewhere. That the disputes are verbal is often taken to express a certain form of […]