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

Hilary term 2025, 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:

week 1, 20 January • diagonalization and reflection. I cover chapter 5 and some parts of chapter 6 of The Road to Paradox: A Guide to Syntax, Truth, and Modality (with Graham Leigh), Cambridge University Press. All the relevant material is on these slides.

week 2, 27 Januar • Horsten, Leon: On reflection, The Philosophical Quarterly 71 (2021), 738–757, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa083

week 3, 3 February • Picollo, Lavinia, and Daniel Waxman: Arithmetical pluralism and the objectivity of syntax, Noûs (2024), https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12510

week 4, 10 February • Kripke, Saul A: The question of logic, Mind 133 (2024), 1–36https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/133/529/1/7381956

week 5, 17 February • Lucas Rosenblatt, 'Should the non-classical logician be embarrassed?', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2022 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/phpr.12770

week 6, 24 February • Salvatore Florio, 'On type distinctions and expressivity', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 2023 https://academic.oup.com/aristotelian/article/123/2/150/7221602

week 7, 3 Februar • Graham Priest 'Reflections on Williamson on logic and validity', Problemos 2024 https://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/38280/35918
Timothy Williamson, 'Reflections on Priest's reflections', Problemos 2024 https://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/38281/35920

week 8: 10 March• Levin Hornischer, 'Logics of synonymy', Journal of Philosophical Logic 2020 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10992-019-09537-5