Massimiliano Carrara
I am Associate professor of Logic and Philosophy of Language at the FISPPA Department -- Section of Philosophy, University of Padua (Padua, Italy). I am principal investigator of COGITO - Research center of Philosophy (Bologna). My main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of logic, applied logic, and metaphysics.
My web page is: massimiliano.carrara.lagado.org/
Here for my papers:
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Phone: tel: +39 (0)49 8274749 fax: +39 (0)49 8274701
Address: FISPPA Department - Section of Philosophy
University of Padua
P.zza Capitaniato 3,
35139 - Padova (Italy)
My web page is: massimiliano.carrara.lagado.org/
Here for my papers:
https://sites.google.com/fisppa.it/massimilianocarrara/
Phone: tel: +39 (0)49 8274749 fax: +39 (0)49 8274701
Address: FISPPA Department - Section of Philosophy
University of Padua
P.zza Capitaniato 3,
35139 - Padova (Italy)
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conditions for B to be a consequence of $\Gamma$ in PWK.
preserve truth. We briefly discuss the main objections these accounts face, as well as Hartry Field’s contention that such objections show consequence to be a primitive, indefinable notion, and that we must reject the claim that valid arguments necessarily preserve truth. We suggest that the accounts in question have the resources to meet the objections standardly thought to herald their demise and make two main claims: (i) that consequence, as opposed to logical consequence, is the epistemologically significant relation philosophers should be mainly interested in; and (ii) that consequence is a paradoxical notion if truth is.
as Identity (CAI), the Principle of Indiscernibility of Identicals
can be extended to composition, by resorting to broadly Fregean
relativizations of cardinality ascriptions. In this paper we analyze various ways in
which this relativization could be achieved. According
to one broad variety of relativization, cardinality ascriptions are
about objects, while concepts occupy an additional argument place.
It should be possible to paraphrase the cardinality ascriptions in
plural logic and, as a consequence, relative counting requires the
relativization either of quantifiers, or of identity, or of the
is one of relation. However, some of these relativizations
do not deliver the expected results, and others rely on problematic
assumptions. In another
broad variety of relativization, cardinality ascriptions are about
concepts or sets. The most promising development of this approach is prima
facie
connected with a violation of the so-called Coreferentiality
Constraint, according to which an identity statement is true only if
its terms have the same referent. Moreover -- even provided that the
problem with coreferentiality can be fixed -- the resulting analysis of
cardinality ascriptions meets several difficulties.
Lectures 2016
Dialetheism and the History of (Western) Philosophy
Graham Priest
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York,
and Boyce Gibson Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne (Australia)
1. Paraconsistent Logic (14 June 2016, 15.30-18.30, Sala delle Edicole, ingresso arco Valaresso)
In this class we will look at paraconsistent logics (logics which tolerate contradictions). We will look at the history of such logics, and some of the basic ideas involved in them. This will involve a little formal logic, but not much.
2. Dialetehesim (15 June 2016, 15-18, Sala delle Edicole, ingresso arco Valaresso)
In this class we will look at the possibility that some contradictions are true (dialetheism), the arguments against it, and some of the arguments for it.
3. Hegel (16 June 2016, 10-13, aula FILM, primo piano Palazzo del Capitanio)
Interpretations of Hegel vary. However, he is arguably the most notable dialetheist in the history of Western philosophy. In this class, we will look at his thought from the perspective of modern dialetheism.
4. The Limits of Thought (16 June 2016, 15-18, aula FILM, primo piano Palazzo del Capitanio)
In this class we will look at one of the most important places where dialetheism seems to appear in philosophy: where a position holds that there are some things that go beyond language, and explains why—in the process, engendering contradiction.
5. Heidegger (17 June 2016, 10-13, aula DIANO, palazzo Liviano)
In this class we will look in detail at one of the philosophers for whom this situation arises: Heidegger, in his wrestling with the problem of being. We will see that he should have been a dialetheist—and perhaps that towards the end of his life actually became one.
Organizzazione scientifica:
Massimiliano Carrara
Dipartimento FISPPA - Università di Padova
Informazioni: massimiliano.carrara@unipd.it
The conference will host the main scholars involved in this debate, with the purpose of encouraging innovative solutions to the following open problems:
a) Is there any inferential or evidential connection between Composition as Identity and mereological principles?
b) Does the debate between monism and dualism in the theory of constitution really concern mereology? Is dualism compatible or incompatible with mereological extensionalism?
c) Is it possible and interesting to combine mereological extensionalism and/or Composition as Identity with non-standard doctrines of identity, such as relative identity or milder forms of pluralism about identity?
d) What does the Yi/Sider Collapse show about the application of plural logic to mereology?
e) How do the appeals to the Indiscernibility of Identicals in the debate about Composition as Identity differ from the appeals to the Indiscernibility of Identicals in the debate about the theory of constitution?
f) Is Composition as Identity compatible with non-standard mereologies, or to pluralist theories of parthood?
g) According to Composition as Identity the Principle of Indiscernibility of Identicals can be extended to composition, by resorting to broadly Fregean relativizations of cardinality ascriptions. How is this relativization achieved?
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