[Pragmatismi] Helsinki Metaphysical Club 1 October: Fabien Schang (Moscow): Truth, truth-values, and the like

[Henrik Rydenfelt]

Helsinki Metaphysical Club

University of Helsinki
Time: Wed 1 October, 16-18 or 18-20
Place: U. Main Building

Dr. Fabien Schang (Moscow):

"Truth, truth-values, and the like"

Abstract:
Logic and epistemology are both related to truth, although these areas of
philosophy deal with this central concept from different perspectives.
Although the common distinction between formal and material truth is meant
to avoid any ambiguity between the two disciplines, I want to discuss the
reasons why a pragmatist approach to truth threatens this very borderline.
For this purpose, I advocate several topics from epistemic logic to the
theory of opposition.

My thesis is that the ensuing coherence theory of truth should justify an
alternative semantics, thereby revisiting the usual concept of truth-value
in logic through a fallibilist defence of truth in epistemology.

The result is a structural theory of meaning and a Boolean algebra of
bitstrings, whereby the so-called truth-value of a proposition is replaced
by the logical value of a statement. The transition from a fallibilist
theory of truth to a non-Fregean theory of logic will serve as a guideline
for the whole talk.

BIO:
Dr. Schang (PhD, U. Nancy 2007), is Post-doctoral Fellow at the Laboratory
for Philosophical Studies, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, working on a
project of "A Theory of Information through Opposition". He has been
post-doc at the Universities of Dresden and visiting researcher at Mumbai,
Hyderabad and Chennai.

Everyone welcome!
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