BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T063616Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20180727T070000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20180727T090000 SUMMARY:Pursuit of Platonistic Tethering to the Truth UID:20260607T110138Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Old Arts\, Parkville\, Australia\, 3010 DESCRIPTION:

Hanti Lin (UC Davis) will present "Pursuit of Platonistic Tethering to the Truth" at 11 in Old Arts 209 on 27 July.

\nAbstract: I will start by doing some epistemology and philosophy of science\, and the result leads to a new view about inductive logic and its relation to deductive logic. To be more specific\, I will start by defending a certain epistemological tradition\, which has two essential parts. (1) It takes seriously an ideal of learning that Plato praises in Meno---the ideal of coming to have one's opinions be "tethered" to the truth\, aka convergence to the truth\; (2) it employs this platonic ideal of learning to evaluate inductive procedures\, as recommended by Peirce\, Reichenbach\, and Putnam. I will address some philosophical challenges to this tradition\, and refine it into a clearly stated view in the epistemology of inductive inference and belief revision. It also leads to a view about inductive logic: that\, while deductive logic studies perfectly reliable preservation of truth\, inductive logic studies progressively more reliable preservation of truth---more and more reliable as evidence or premises accumulate.\n \; ORGANIZER;CN=Shawn Standefer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR