** Important Notice **
Due to concerns about the Covid-19 virus, we have decided to cancel all invited speakers of the LoC seminar for this semester and change the remaining sessions to online sessions. See the new schedule below and check the LoC-seminar emails for further information.
The LoC conference that is planned for this June is also canceled.
Unless otherwise noted, the LoC Seminar meets on Wednesdays, 10: 00-12: 00, in the Faculty Room, in the OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143.
| Material | Presenter | |
| Feb 12 |
Substructural negations as normal modal operators Conditional Belief and Imaginative Episodes NB. Double session: 10 am; 1 pm-3 pm |
Heinrich Wansing Chris Badura |
| Feb 26 |
Relative mathematical knowledge |
Peter |
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Mar 10
Mar 11
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CANCELED! Default modal domains NB. March 10, Tuesday, Time: 13.00-15.00, Location: Faculty room
CANCELED! Now we know what not to think NB. Time: 16.00-17.30, Location: F1.15 @ ILLC |
Jonathan Phillips |
| Mar 25 |
Bounded group reasoning and distributed knowledge |
Anthi |
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Apr 8 |
Recent work on relevance and conditionals |
Aybüke |
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Apr 22 |
Where's the logic in the Rationality Debate? |
Anthi |
| May 6 |
WiP: kinds and the epistemology of possibility |
Tom |
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May 20 |
WiP: technical aspects of truthmaker semantics |
Aybüke |
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June 3 |
Recent work on evidence and aboutness |
Peter |
| June 17 |
Recent work on the psychology of modality |
Karolina |
| June 17-19 | LoC conference |
The LoC Seminar meets on Wednesdays, 10: 00-12: 00, in the Faculty Room, in the OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143.
| Material | Presenter | |
| Sep 4 |
Towards a logical formalization of theory of Mind: A study on False Belief Tasks |
Anthi |
| Sep. 18 |
Embodied Constraints on Imagination |
Tom |
| Sep 25 |
Probability, conditionals, and topic sensitivity |
Aybüke & Franz |
| Oct 2 |
Stability: A novel interpretation of Fitch's entry |
Levin |
| Oct. 16 |
Dominic Gregory |
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Nov. 14 Thursday |
An Agency-based Approach to Modal Knowledge NB: Joint LoC / LIRa session: 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm, F1.15 @ILLC |
Barbara Vetter |
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Dec 4 |
WiP on kinds and the epistemology of possibility |
Tom |
| Dec 11 |
Special event: Truthmaker Semantics Workshop |
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Dec 17 Tuesday |
Indirect Evidence and the Easy Foreknowledge Puzzle NB: changed time and venue: 16:00-18:00, F3.20 @ILLC |
Fabrizio Cariani |
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The LoC Seminar meets on Wednesdays, 10-12am, in the Faculty Room, in the OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143.
| Material | Presenter | |
| 23 Jan |
A Hyperintensional, Topic-Sensitive Indicative |
Franz |
| 6 Feb |
Various notions of aboutness in the issue based theory of topics |
Chris |
| 20 Feb |
Douven-Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals I - Ch. 2&3 |
Karolina |
| 27 Feb |
Voluntary Imagination: A Fine-grained Analysis |
Ilaria |
| 6 Mar |
WiP: Truthmakers and Epistemic Logic |
Peter |
| 20 Mar |
Offline Belief and Belief in Conditionals |
Margot Strohminger |
| 03 April |
WiP: Epistemology of Modality |
Tom |
| 10 April |
Douven-Epistemology of Indicative Conditionals II - Ch. 4&5 |
Peter |
| 24 April |
Abductive Conditionals as a Test Case for Inferentialism NB: changed time and venue: 16h30-18h00, F3.20@ILLC |
Igor Douven |
| 15 May |
Exclusion and Necessity in 2C Semantics |
Peter |
| 29 May |
Uncertainty About Evidence |
Aybüke |
| 26 June | WiP: Asking empirical questions about counterpossibles | Karolina |
The LoC Seminar meets on Wednesdays, 2-4pm, in the Faculty Room, in the OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143.
| Material | Presenter | |
| Sept 05 |
Discussing Machery's Philosophy within its Proper Bounds |
Peter & Tom |
| Sept. 19 |
Imagination as Simulation |
Tom |
| Sept 26 |
Discussion on Simulation Theories |
Karolina |
| Oct 03 |
The Cognitive Roots of Deduction NB. Venue: F1.15 @ ILLC |
Catarina Dutilh Novaes |
| Oct 17 |
WiP Logic of Imagination |
Aybuke & Tom |
| Oct. 31 |
Vulcan Revisited: Is the F an F? NB. Venue: F1.15 @ ILLC |
Bjorn Jespersen |
| Nov 14 |
Reasoning, Bayesianism, and Data |
Karolina |
| Dec 5 |
Hyperintensional Belief Revision |
Aybuke |
| Dec 12 | Foundations of Two-component Semantics | Peter |
The LoC Seminar meets on Wednesdays, 10-12am, in the Faculty Room, in the OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143.
| Material | Presenter | |
| 17 Jan |
Relevant Logic |
Franz |
| 24 Jan |
Between a conditional antecedent and its consistent |
Karolina |
| 07 Feb |
Rethinking 'Thinking the Impossible' |
Chris |
| 08 Feb |
Third European Non-Categorical Thinking Workshop |
Various |
| 21 Feb |
Logics or Synonymy |
Levin |
| 21 Mar |
Thought Experiments in Philosophy |
Tom |
| 04 April |
Thinking about thinking: a balanced view to higher-order reasoning |
Anthi |
| 11 April |
[CHANGED DATE!] STIT Logic |
Ilaria |
| April 18 | [CHANGED TIME / DATE: 12: 00-14: 00 Franz 'office] TBA | Matteo Plebani |
| 02 May |
Topological versus Relation Semantics for Epistemic Logics |
Aybuke |
| 16 May |
TBA (CHANGED LOCATION: F1.15 ILLC SEMINAR ROOM !!) |
Karolina |
| 30 May | Disjunctivism about Conceivability | Martin |
| June 13 | The Epistemology of Conditionals | Peter |
| 27 June | TBA | Katrin Schulz |
The LoC Seminar meets on Wednesdays, 2-4pm, in the Faculteitskamer, in the OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143.
| Material | Presenter | |
| 06 Sept |
Williamson - Counterpossibles |
Tom |
| 20 Sept |
Chalmers: Propositions and Attitude Ascriptions & Gibbard - The Objects of Belief |
Peter |
| 04 Oct |
WiP: Hawke - Gibbard's Cheap Trick [CHANGED TIME: 10:00 - 12:00] |
Peter |
| 18 Oct |
Dynamic Epistemic Logic for Explicit and Implicit Beliefs |
Fernando |
| 25 Oct |
Cappelen - Why philosophers shouldn't do semantics |
Manuel |
| 01 Nov |
Floridi - A Defence of Constructionism |
Manuel |
| 08 Nov |
WiP: Schoonen - Meinongianism and Platonism in Theories of Intentionality |
Tom |
| 22 Nov |
CHANGED TIME 10:00-12:00 WiP: Solaki - The Logic of Fast and Slow Thinking |
Anthi |
| 29 Nov | WiP: Berto & Hawke - Topic-sensitive variably strict operators I | Peter & Franz |
| 13 Dec |
WiP: Berto & Hawke - Topic-sensitive variably strict operators II |
Peter & Franz |
The LoC Seminar meets on Wednesdays, 3-5pm, in the room of Franz Berto, in the OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143.
| Material | Presenter | |
| February 1 |
Presentation LoC project + WIP: Aboutness in Imagination |
Franz Berto |
| February 15 |
Paper: A Dynamic Solution to the Problem of Logical Omniscience (Bjerring & Rasmussen) |
Anthi Solaki |
| March 1 |
Paper: On Imagining, Supposing, and Conceiving (Balcerak Jackson) |
Tom Schoonen |
| March 8 |
WIP: On the Structure of Hyperintensionality |
Levin Hornischer |
| March 15 |
Paper: Two-Dimensional Semantics (Chalmers) |
Tom Schoonen |
| March 29 |
No Seminar |
No Seminar |
| 11 April |
Paper: Modal Epistemology (Van Inwagen) & VI's Modal Skepticism (Hawke) |
Peter Hawke |
| 26 April |
Paper: Conceivability, imagination, and modal knowledge (Fiocco) |
Tom Schoonen |
| May 10 |
WIP: Theories of Aboutness |
Peter Hawke |
| 24 May |
Special session: Situations, Possible Worlds and Impossible Worlds |
Special Guest: Ed Zalta |
[CANCELLED] Jonathan Phillips (Dartmouth) on Now we know what not to think
LoC-DIP seminar session: Wednesday, March 11, 16:00- 17.30, at F1.15 @ ILLC
Heinrich Wansing (Bochum) on Substructural negations as normal modal operators and
and Christopher Badura (Bochum) on Conditional Belief and Imaginative Episodes
LoC seminar: Wednesday, February 12, 10:00-15:00, at OTM 141, Faculteitskamer.
Fabrizio Cariani (Northwestern) on Indirect Evidence and the Easy Foreknowledge Puzzle. LoC seminar: Tuesday, December 17, 2019, 16:00-18:00, at the ILLC.
Barbara Vetter on agency-based approach to modal knowledge. Joint LoC/LIRa session: Thu, November 14, 2019, 16.30-18.00 at the ILLC.
Dominic Gregory on counterfactuals and beliefs about possibility. LoC seminar: Wed, October 16, 2019, 10:00-12:00 in Oude Turfmarkt 141.
Igor Douven on abductive conditionals and Inferentialism: LoC seminar: Wed, April 24, 2019, 16.30-18.00 at the ILLC.
Margot Strohminger on belief in conditionals: LoC seminar: Wed, March 20, 2019, 10 am-12am in Oude Turfmarkt 141-143.
Catarina Dutilh Novaes on deduction and cognition: LoC seminar: Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 2pm-4pm at the ILLC
LoC's PI Franz moves to St Andrews, but the LoC work continues as before.