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SUMMARY:Logic\, Science\, and Metaphysics: Modal Logic as Metaphysics
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Lecture 1: Logics as Scientific Theories (5 June)</p>\n<p>Lecture 2: Modal Logic as Metaphysics&nbsp\;(6 June)</p>\n<p><strong>Abstract Lecture 2:</strong></p>\n<p>The second lecture is a case study of the methodology described in the&nbsp\;first\, applied to modal logic with a metaphysical interpretation of&nbsp\;the modal operators. Some consequences will be drawn out for possible&nbsp\;worlds model theory and the question of whether there could have been<br>things that do not actually exist. The relevance of higher-order modal&nbsp\;logic for these issues will also be explained.<br>&nbsp\;<br>The Petrus Hispanus Lectures are delivered every other academic year&nbsp\;at the University of Lisbon by a leading figure in current research&nbsp\;about the nature of mind\, cognition and language. Previous Petrus&nbsp\;Hispanus Lecturers: Hilary Putnam\, Daniel Dennett\, Richard Jeffrey\,&nbsp\;Ned Block\, David Kaplan\, Tyler Burge.<br><br>For more information\, please contact&nbsp\;Professor Jo&atilde\;o Branquinho&nbsp\;jbranquinho@campus.ul.pt</p>\n<p>LanCog Group (Language\, Mind and Cognition Research Group)<br>Project Online Companion PTDC/FIL-FIL/121209/2010</p>
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