Achille Varzi, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University will be visiting Oxford as the Astor Visiting Lecturer in week 8 of Trinity term 2022. He will be presenting a lecture and participate in a workshop.
Prof Varzi’s work focuses on logic and metaphysics. He is an editor of the Journal of Philosophy and has just published Mereology (OUP 2021, with A.J. Cotnoir), a major contribution to the theory of wholes and parts that compiles decades of advanced research into a comprehensive, up-to-date, and formally rigorous picture.

Abstract: I offer an argument in favour of the thesis that so-called logical constants do not possess any special semantic traits. I then use the argument’s conclusion to articulate and partly defend a conventionalist—hence pluralist—conception of logic.