Abstract: When all goes well, one鈥檚 agreement to 蠁 constitutes valid consent to 蠁. If I agree to your doing X to me, for instance, and all goes well, then I waive any right I had against your doing X to me, and other things being equal, you are morally permitted to do X to…
Abstract: The unification of the paradoxes of truth and vagueness has been a topic of recurrent philosophical interest (e.g. McGee 1989/1990, Tappenden 1993, Field 2003/2008, Priest 1994/2010). I will present a sequence of observations which illustrate how the liar and sorites paradoxes are formally related, culminating in the observation that both give rise to similar…
Abstract:聽 Following the publication of his Foundations of Geometry聽in 1899, David Hilbert engaged in a well-known debate with Frege which concerned (amongst other things) the question of whether the consistency of a set of axioms entails the existence of a model in which they are satisfied.聽 聽I will consider this dimension of the so-called Frege-Hilbert…
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