[Alta-Logic] Tomorrow: JC Beall (UConn), The one true logic

[Richard Zach]

http://phil.ucalgary.ca/event/2016-09-30/philosophy-speakers-one-true-logic

*Date & Time: *
September 30, 2016 | 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
*Location: *
Social Sciences Tower, Room 1253
*Speaker: *
J. C. Beall (Connecticut)


    About the talk

The logic FDE (i.e., first-degree entailment) is a very natural but very 
weak logic. (Examples of weakness: modus ponens fails; there are no 
logical truths; and more.) This talk begins with a brief review of the 
FDE picture of logic. (The review is informal and accessible. This talk 
is not intended to be technical; its focus is on a philosophical 
picture.) With review of FDE in hand the talk turns to its main task: 
namely, to explore and defend a view according to which FDE is "the one 
true logic". The first question: in what sense might FDE be “the one 
true logic”? The second question: but how, in light of its conspicuous 
weakness, /can/ FDE be the one true logic? (We don’t even have modus 
ponens!) My main aim is to answer these questions in a clear and 
plausible fashion.


    About the speaker

J. C. Beall is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy 
at the University of Connecticut where he is Director of the UConn Logic 
Group. His books include /Logic: The Basics/, /Possibilities and 
Paradox: An Introduction to Modal and Many-Valued Logic/ with Bas van 
Fraassen, /Logical Pluralism/ with Greg Restall, and /Spandrels of Truth/.


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Richard Zach ..... http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/
Professor,             Department  of  Philosophy
University of Calgary, Calgary AB T2N 1N4, Canada

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