LLC - Lectures

Upcoming LLC Lecture

Kit Fine (New York University): There is no Rational Response to a Sorites    

Monday 26 May, 17:00-19:00, Sala Lauree, Complesso Aldo Moro, Via Verdi 24C                                                                                    

Let us use the term ‘localist’ for someone who thinks that there is an intelligible notion of a borderline case in terms of which the more general notion of vagueness can be understood.  I wish in this paper to raise an issue for the localist: how should someone respond when confronted with a borderline case?  I shall argue that principles which the localist should accept lead to the conclusion that there is no rational response to a borderline case.

Everybody is welcome to attend the LLC lecture! No registration is required. 

The lecture can also be followed remotely via the WebEx platform. The link is https://unito.webex.com/unito-en/j.php?MTID=mfa390be7abf35784fae4c11acd61aa08. 

The LLC Lecture series is an annual series of lectures which we established to promote and disseminate key results and approaches in research about logic, language, and cognition. Each year the Center invites an emerging or established researcher (not necessarily famous) for a public presentation in Turin. The lectures are preferably based on materials that the invitee is about to publish or has just published, so they are intended as an opportunity to present and discuss new research work. Here is a list of our past lecturers:

• 11th LLC Lecture: Kit Fine, There is no Rational Response to a Sorites, 26/05/2025

• 10th  LLC Lecture: Fiona Macpherson, Perception in Dreams, 02/10/2024

• 9th  LLC Lecture: Hartry Field, Extreme Pluralism About Mathematics and Logic, 11/05/2023

• 8th LLC Lecture: Thomas C. Ormerod, "Failing" to find solutions, 15/12/2022

• 7th  LLC Lecture: Tim Williamson, Knowledge by Sight and Knowledge by Proof, 09/12/2021

• 6th LLC Lecture: Stephen Yablo, Deep jokes, 10/12/2020 

• 5th LLC Lecture: Philippe Schlenker, Meaning in sign, in speech, and in gestures, 5/12/2019

• 4th LLC Lecture: Christian List, Free will in a physical world, 30/11/2018

• 3rd LLC Lecture: Athanasios Raftopoulos, Why early vision is cognitively impenetrable, 19/12/2017

• 2nd LLC Lecture: Lorenza Saitta, Abstraction: A key to perception, reasoning, and learning, 1/12/2016II 

• 1st LLC Lecture: Gerd Gigerenzer, Rationality for mortals: Simple heuristics that make us smart, 15/12/2015