'Impossible Worlds’ by @Franz_Berto and @Mark_Jago, considers problems in the theory of information, truth in fiction, and reasoning about the impossible. #OpenAccess
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My "Space, Time and Parsimony" has been published by Noûs! It is available open access here:
https://t.co/X0rROplLDi
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My PhD student, Bokai Yao @BokaiYao, has just passed his dissertation defense, defending the thesis, "Set theory with urelements", in which he establishes and separates a surprisingly rich hierarchy of urelement set theories, and develops the theory of forcing over urelement set theories, and reflection principles in second-order set theories with urelements.
Co-supervised with myself and Daniel Nolan. Committee members including also Patricia Blanchette and Timothy Bays.
@LedermanHarvey That style of objection was being raised by the early eighties in the context of Lewisian modal realism. Lewis’s discussion in OTPW has some references, I think.
Everything interesting is hyperintensional.
Indeed, interestingness itself is a hyperintensional property, since the Incompleteness Theorems are VERY interesting, but 1=1 is not.
The Inaugural Lecture of John Divers, Chair of Moral Philosophy (1837) will take place next Tuesday at 18:00 in the Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre. Please register to attend here: https://t.co/hPKHzrmjuV