Saturday 24 March 2012

TCD Metaphysical Society Event

This upcoming Monday, the Metaphysical Society at Trinity College Dublin is hosting an event. Here is the official announcement:

The TCD Metaphysical Society welcomes you to its annual symposium, which will take place on Monday the 26th of March, in the chamber of the Graduates' Memorial Building. This year's theme is Realism and Anti-Realism. The papers will address topics including the nature of meaning, the relation between mathematical and scientific methods, or the role of reason in ethics. If you are interested in this kind of thing, then do come along for a day of fascinating philosophy. Please see the schedule below for the details of speakers and timings:

10:30 - 11:00 David Boylan (TCD) - Introduction and explanation of theme.

11:00 - 12:00 Paal Antonsen (TCD) - Warrant Conditional Semantics

12:15 - 13:15 Clare Moriarty (UCD) - Mathematical Anti-Realism and Naturalism

14:00 - 15:00 Ole Hjortland (Munich) - Assertion and Denial in Classical and Intuitionistic Logic

15:15 - 16:15 Simon Blackburn (Cambridge) - Some Ways to Misunderstand Hume

Contact: metafizz 'at' csc 'dot' tcd 'dot' ie

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