Schedule for Winter 2009
1/13: William Tait
(Department of Philosophy)
“Compositional Semantics without Incomplete Objects:
A Variable-Free Formalization of First-Order Predicate Logic”
1/27: William Wimsatt
(Department of Philosophy)
“False Models as Means to Truer Theories”
2/10: Katherine Brading
(University of Notre Dame)
“The ‘Newman problem’ in the context of structural realism”
2/24: Antonio Montalban
(Department of Mathematics)
“Reverse Mathematics”
3/10: Nat Hansen
(Chicago, grad student)
“Color Adjectives and Radical Contextualism”
During the Winter 2009 quarter, the workshop will meet every other Tuesday in Cobb 101 from 4:30-6:30pm.