Astor Visiting Lectureship - Semanitc Conventions and Logical Pluralism
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.
Date: 14 June 2022, 14:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2022)
Venue: Lecture Room, Philosophy Faculty, Radcliffe Humanities
Speaker: Achille Varzi (John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University)
Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: jan.westerhoff@lmh.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Frances Roach