** 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. Standardly, we'll meet bi-weekly on Wednesdays from 5pm-7pm (Amsterdam time) via Zoom. See the new schedule below and check the LoC-seminar emails for further information.
Unless otherwise noted, the LoC Seminar meets on Wednesdays, 5pm-7pm, in the Faculty Room, in the OTM 141, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143.
| Date | Material | Presenter |
| Sept 09 | How we know what not to think | Jonathan Phillips |
| Sept 16 | Williamson - Suppose & Tell | TBA |
| Sept 23 | Williamson - Suppose & Tell | TBA |
| Oct 07 | Questions in Action | Daniel Hoek |
| Oct 21 | Difference-making conditionals and the Relevant Ramsey Test | Hans Rott |
| Nov 04 | Williamson - Suppose & Tell | TBA |
| Nov 18 | The Structure of Reasons: Subtraction and Partiality | Federico Faroldi |
| Dec 02 | Williamson - Suppose & Tell | TBA |
** 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. Standardly, we'll meet bi-weekly on Wednesdays from 1pm-3pm (Amsterdam time) via Zoom. 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, 1pm-3pm, 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 |
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Apr 29 |
Suppositional Reasoning in Physics |
Michela Massimi (Edinburgh) |
| May 6 |
WiP: kinds and the epistemology of possibility |
Tom |
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May 20 |
WiP: Working memory, long-term memory, |
Aybüke & Franz |
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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.