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 December-2017-E-W-Beth-Lecture-Stewart-Shapiro
DTSTAMP:20171213T170527
SUMMARY:E.W. Beth Lecture, Stewart Shapiro
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Stewart Shapiro
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20171220T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20171220T213000
LOCATION:D0.09, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, 1012 CN Amst
 erdam, Amsterdam (Changed!)
DESCRIPTION:This year's E. W. Beth Lecture will be
  given by Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University, 
 Columbus), well known  for his work on the Philoso
 phy of Mathematics, Philosophical Logic, and Philo
 sophy of Language.   The purpose of this talk is t
 o articulate and evaluate Waismann's notion of ope
 n-texture. We contrast this notion with the more w
 ell-known accounts of analyticity articulated by t
 he logical positivists, Rudolf Carnap in particula
 r, the rejection of analyticity by W. V. O. Quine,
  and its subsequent defense by Grice and Strawson.
  One underlying theme is how far open-texture reac
 hes. Do we follow Waismann and restrict it to empi
 rical predicates, or is the phenomenon more genera
 l, applying even in science and mathematics? Our g
 oal is to explore the extent to which the Waismann
 ian insights bear on the enterprise of natural lan
 guage semantics and of the model-theoretic notion 
 of logical consequence. Does the fact that contemp
 orary model theory, and  many of the models for le
 xical semantics, allow no room for open-texture te
 ll against those enterprises, as they are currentl
 y practiced?   The E.W. Beth lecture is part of th
 e Amsterdam Colloquium 2017. Drinks will be served
  after the lecture in Kapitein Zeppos.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n  <p>This year's E.
  W. Beth Lecture will be given by Stewart Shapiro 
 (Ohio State University, Columbus), well known<br>\
 n  for his work on the Philosophy of Mathematics, 
 Philosophical Logic, and Philosophy of Language.<b
 r>\n  <br>\n  The purpose of this talk is to artic
 ulate and evaluate Waismann's notion of open-textu
 re. We contrast this notion with the more well-kno
 wn accounts of analyticity articulated by the logi
 cal positivists, Rudolf Carnap in particular, the 
 rejection of analyticity by W. V. O. Quine, and it
 s subsequent defense by Grice and Strawson. One un
 derlying theme is how far open-texture reaches. Do
  we follow Waismann and restrict it to empirical p
 redicates, or is the phenomenon more general, appl
 ying even in science and mathematics? Our goal is 
 to explore the extent to which the Waismannian ins
 ights bear on the enterprise of natural language s
 emantics and of the model-theoretic notion of logi
 cal consequence. Does the fact that contemporary m
 odel theory, and<br>\n  many of the models for lex
 ical semantics, allow no room for open-texture tel
 l against those enterprises, as they are currently
  practiced?<br>\n  <br>\n  The E.W. Beth lecture i
 s part of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2017. Drinks wi
 ll be served after the lecture in <a href="http://
 www.zeppos.nl" target="_blank">Kapitein Zeppos</a>
 .</p>\n
URL:http://events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2017/
CONTACT:Frank Veltman at F.J.M.M.Veltman at uva.nl
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