Gabriel Rabin (ANU): "Fundamentality Physicalism"
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Title: Fundamentality Physicalism Abstract: Physicalism, or materialism, is the thesis that everything is physical (in some sense or other), or that there is nothing over and above the physical (perhaps this is the "some sense or other" in which everything is physical). I argue that we should…
Nathan Pensler (Fullbright Scholar): The Basicality Problem for Deductive Inference
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Not all deductive inference rules are created equal. Consider a rule allowing a reasoner to infer Fermat’s Last Theorem directly from the Peano Axioms. It is natural to think that this unusual rule differs importantly from familiar rules like modus ponens. A tempting way to capture this difference…
Peter Roeper (ANU): "A Vindication of Logicism"
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Abstract: According to Frege logicism is the thesis that the truths of arithmetic can be transformed into logical truths by means of definitions. Frege is guided by a criterion for the identity of numbers that he calls Hume's Principle: 'The number of Fs = the number of Gs iff there are as…