The logic seminar will meet this Thursday from 4 to 5.30pm in the Graduate Common Room at the Philosophy Faculty. Bernhard Salow will give a talk entitled "Vaguely luminous". Abstract below. University members welcome.
Michael Potter A condition C is luminous if one can know that one is in C whenever one is in C. Williamson (2000, ch.4) influentially argues that there are no luminous conditions. The argument seems to many to rely on controversial thoughts about vagueness; but pinpointing where has proven difficult. I argue that one might be able to clutch something very close to luminosity from the jaws of this argument by adopting contextualism about vagueness, saying that the boundary drawn by a vague predicate such as 'is cold' is shifty, and is designed so as to never distinguish between similar cases when both are salient. _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
