séminaire référence Juillet 9 (!) Francesc o Berto

[Arapinis Alexandra]

Cher-e-s collegues, 
  
 Dans le cadre du séminaire sur la référence (IHPST) nous avons le 
 plaisir d'annoncer une séance speciale, exceptionellement le lundi 9  Juillet, 11h-13h, animée par 
 Francesco Berto. 
  
 Monday, July 9, 2007 
 11-13 
 IHPST 
 13 rue du Four 
 75006 Paris 
  
  
  
                        Adynaton and Material Exclusion 
  
 Logical dialetheism claims that some contradictions hold, are true, and it 
 is rational to accept and assert them. Such a position is naturally 
 portrayed as a challenge to the Law of Non-Contradiction (LNC). But all the 
 classic formulations of the LNC are, in a sense, not questioned by a  typical 
 dialetheist, since she is (cheerfully) required to accept them by her own 
 theory. The goal of this paper is to develop a formulation of the Law which 
 appears to be unquestionable, in the sense that the mainstream dialetheist 
 is committed to accept it without also accepting something inconsistent  with 
 it, on pain of trivialism - that is to say, on pain of lapsing into the 
 position according to which everything is the case. 
 This will be achieved via (a) a discussion of the mainstream dialetheic 
 treatment of the pragmatic notions of rejection and denial; and (b) the 
 algebraic characterization of a negation via the primitive intuition of 
 content exclusion - a negation which works as an exclusion-expressing  device 
 for the language. Such a result will not constitute a cheap victory for the 
 friends of consistency. We may just learn that different things have been 
 historically conflated under the label of 'Law of Non-Contradiction'; that 
 dialetheists rightly attack some formulations of the Law, and orthodox 
 logicians and philosophers have been mistaken in assimilating them to the 
 indisputable one. 
  
       
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