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SUMMARY:The revenge of the heap and how to avoid It
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LOCATION:Senate House\, London\, United Kingdom\, WC1
DESCRIPTION:<p>Abstract: Many prima facie solutions of the Sorites paradox face a revenge problem\, that is\, the recurrence of the paradox at a different level. The most notorious case is that of higher-order vagueness\, where each added order leads to a new Sorites and the assumption of infinite orders to the so-called higher-order vagueness paradoxes. In my talk I aim to show (i) how these paradoxes result from the confusion of two paradigms of borderline cases: higher-order vagueness (using iterated modalities) and borderline nestings (using mixed-order non-empty predicates)\; (ii) how\, once the characteristics of borderline nestings are removed from the description of higher-order vagueness\, the paradoxes disappear.&nbsp\; For this purpose\, I introduce the -- perhaps only -- coherent theory of higher-order vagueness\, i.e. that of columnar higher-order vagueness and explain its basic characteristics. Finally I provide the basics of a family of formal semantics that manifest the infrastructure for these revenge-evading theories\, starting with a bivalent normal modal system (or Kripke semantics) and hinting how this could be modified to trivalent Kripke semantics\, and/or to systems of three-valued logics with a bivalent modal fragment.</p>\n\n<p>Autumn 2013 Programme<br> <a target="_blank">http://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/LEMAutumn2013</a>(with links to abstracts)<br> .<br> <br> Tue 22 Oct</p>\n<p>Yuri Cath(University of East Anglia)</p>\n<p>Revisionary Intellectualism and Gettier</p>\n<p>.</p>\n<p><br> Tue 5 Nov</p>\n<p>Susanne Bobzien(All Souls College\, Oxford)</p>\n<p>The revenge of the heap and how to avoid It</p>\n<p>.<br> </p>\n<p>Tue 19 Nov</p>\n<p>Brian Rabern(University of Edinburgh)</p>\n<p>In defense of Tarski on variables</p>\n<p>.<br> </p>\n<p>Tue 3 Dec</p>\n<p>Anthony Booth(University of Sussex)</p>\n<p>Why is belief involuntary?</p>\n<p>.<br> Venue: All talks begin at 5.00pm in Room 243\, second floor\, Senate House\, Malet Street\, WC1 (except 5 Nov\, Room 246). <br> Directions to Senate House: <a target="_blank"> http://www.london.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/home/map.pdf</a></p>\n<p>If you would like to have dinner with the speaker on the evening of their talk please contact the LEM convenor\, Dr Corine Besson: <a target="_blank">corine.besson@sas.ac.uk</a></p>\n<p>Poster: <a target="_blank"> https://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/LEM%20Poster%20Autumn%202013.pdf</a></p>\n<p>Co-convenors: Dr Corine Besson (Sussex) and Robert Bassett</p>
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