Maimonides Lecture on Scepticism (James Conant)

19 October 2022

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We would like to invite you to a Maimonides Lecture on Scepticism on Tuesday, 1 November 2022, at 18:00. James Conant (The University of Chicago) will talk about "Conceptions of Logic: Universalist vs. Specialist, Critical vs. Demonstrative, and Logocentric vs. Metalogical."

Conceptions of Logic: Universalist vs. Specialist, Critical vs. Demonstrative, and Logocentric vs. Metalogical

The talk will distinguish conceptions of logic through distinguishing some of the differing ways in which answers to the following questions have been combined: Are philosophy and logic two things or one? Logic and mathematics — two things or one? Can one step outside of logic and regard it from sideways on? Or does logic not have an “outside”? Is logic a science and, if so, of what? Is it a special science with its own proprietary subject matter or an absolutely general science — in which case what does it investigate? And if it is not a science at all, then what form of understanding does it yield? With the aid of these questions we will compare and contrast the three fundamentally different conceptions of logic found in Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus with each other and all three with the standard contemporary conception of logic.

James Conant is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Date
Tuesday, 1 November 2022, 18:00

Venue
MCAS and Online (Zoom)
Please contact MCAS for further information and registration.

Poster
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Contact and registration
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