{"id":1312,"date":"2021-10-04T01:08:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T00:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2021-10-04T01:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T00:10:28","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2021-22-session-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2021-22-session-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2021-22, Session 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First Steps in the Philosophy of Paradoxicality<br \/>\n<\/strong>Elia Zardini (LanCog and Universidad Complutense de Madrid)<\/p>\n<p>08 October 2021, 11:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 GMT+1) | Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> According to <em>the traditional definition of paradoxicality<\/em>, in a paradox <em>apparently true premises apparently entail an apparently false conclusion<\/em>. I argue that the traditional definition is too narrow, in that prominent types of paradoxes also have versions that conclude to an <em>obviously true conclusion<\/em> but that are nonetheless paradoxical. After drawing out an interesting corollary of this fact, I criticise a couple of alternative proposals (that in a paradox <em>apparently a priori premises apparently entail an apparently a posteriori conclusion<\/em>; that in a paradox <em>anything (in the relevant range of propositions) apparently entails everything (in the relevant range of propositions)<\/em>) as both too narrow and too strict. I then propose my own characterisation, according to which in a paradox, <em>apparently, even if the conclusion failed to hold, the premises would be true and the argument form would be valid<\/em>. I explain in what sense this account is not a <em>reductive definition<\/em>; in which directions the account can be <em>extended<\/em> to cover various other paradoxical phenomena and how the account can be understood as the <em>metaphysical<\/em> ground for a plausible <em>epistemological<\/em> claim about paradoxicality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Steps in the Philosophy of Paradoxicality Elia Zardini (LanCog and Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 08 October 2021, 11:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 GMT+1) | Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: According to the traditional definition of paradoxicality, in a paradox apparently true premises apparently entail an apparently false conclusion. I argue that the traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}