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Upcoming Talk

Title: Outlines of Logical Externalism

Speaker: Jitka Kadlecikova

Date: Wednesday, March 27th at 2PM

Location: RAIR Lab, Winslow (Text Brandon or James for access)

Abstract: In this talk, I will present and discuss a draft of my paper, “Outlines of Logical Externalism.” It is a philosophical inquiry into the nature of inference and reasoning, informed by recent developments in the theory of topic. I will suggest a synthesis of two radical philosophical positions, Putnam (et al.)’s semantic externalism and inferentialism. I argue that when applied to the domain of formal logic, the synthesis of these theories provides a revealing analysis of the way our reasoning is shaped. I will further attempt to reformulate the resulting theory, which I call logical externalism, in terms of topic-theoretic considerations, and present some notions, notably Ferguson’s idea of “monstrous content,” as real-life applications of this topic-theoretic logical externalism (TT-LE). Finally, I will provide a possible refinement of this theory in order for it to fully conform to TT-LE.

About Us

The NY Capital Region Logic group is a weekly gathering at RPI of people in the NY Capital Region interested in the field of logic and related areas such as

List of Prior Talks

We hold weekly seminars in which either academic papers or original talks on the above topics are presented to the group. If interested in joining or listening in, please contact us at oswalj@rpi.edu.

We generally hold our talks weekly on Wednesdays at 2PM.

Speakers

John Slowik

Armin Karic

Jitka Kadlecikova

Elisangela Ramirez-Camara

Pietro Vigiani