B.Phil. Seminar Volker Halbach and Tim Williamson
Logic and Philosophy of Logic

Hilary term 2024, Mondays 11-13, Ryle Room

At the beginning of each class we will introduce the topic by presenting an article or book chapter, which all participants will be expected to have read in advance. This will be followed by a discussion. Here is our preliminary plan:

We start with deflationism about truth. The following is a useful overview: Armour-Garb, Bradley, Daniel Stoljar, and James Woodbridge, “Deflationism About Truth”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy This entry contains covers the philosophical background. We try to avoid technical details as far as possible. Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Cambridge University Press, second edn. 2014) by Volker Halbach summarizes many of the main technical results.

week 1, 15 January • Daniel Waxman: “Deflationism, Arithmetic, and the Argument from Conservativeness” Mind 126 (2017): 429–63, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzv182

week 2, 22 Januar • Kentaro Fujimoto: “The Function of Truth and the Conservativeness Argument” Mind, 131 (2022): 129–157, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzaa083

week 3: 29 Januar • Richard Kimberly Heck: ‘Disquotationalism and the compositional principles’, in Modes of Truth (Stern & Nicolai eds.), pp. 115-150. Routledge, 2021, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429030208

week 4: 5 February • Leitgeb, Hannes ‘What theories of truth should be like (but cannot be)’, Philosophy Compass 2, no. 2 (2007): 276-290, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2007.00070.x

week 5: 12 February • Camillo Fiore and Lucas Rosenblatt, ‘Recapture results and classical logic’, Mind 132 (2023): 762-788.

week 6: 19 February • Peter Fritz, ‘Ground and grain’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 105 (2022): 299-330.

week 7: 26 Februar • Gillian Russell, ‘How to prove Hume’s law’, Journal of Philosophical Logic 51 (2022): 603-632.

week 8: 4 March • David Ripley, ‘Experimental philosophical logic’, in J. Sytsma and W. Buckwalter (eds.), A Companion to Experimental Philosophy (Wiley, 2016): 523-534.