Migration is not only a geographic movement, but also an ongoing process of self-refining, belonging negotiation and social boundary-making. This workshop, organised by the Empowering Language group, will highlight how migrants make use of and are shaped by meaning-making resources and how these intersect with language.
The event is free, but you are kindly requested to register via the form online.
It is our great pleasure to announce a talk by Ed Zalta (Stanford) taking place at the ILLC. Ed is the creator of the famous Standford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and well-known for his abstract object theory. He is a very accessible person who loves to talk to students, so this should be a great opportunity for our students.
Abstract: In this talk, I show how the primitive notions of semantic theories, and the principles stipulated in the semantics to govern these notions, can be systematically defined and derived in object theory (OT). For example, philosophers and logicians have postulated possible worlds, impossible worlds, situations, possibilities, truthmaker states, HYPE states, plural entities, etc. as part of their semantic interpretation of natural language. They also assert axioms that govern these primitive entities. In each case, I show that in object theory, one can define the entities postulated in object-theoretic terms, and then derive the axioms stipulated as theorems of object theory. I focus particular on the two new examples of this analysis: truthmaker states (Fine) and the possibilities used in possibility semantics (Humberstone, van Benthem, and Holliday).
The Empowering Language group and the Humanities Venture Lab are organising this workshop to bring together colleagues from the Faculty of Humanities working on or interested in research and impact projects that promote reading.
The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar) is organised monthly over Zoom, with expository talks on topics of interest for the broader logic community. The seminar is open for professional or aspiring logicians and logic aficionados worldwide.
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