Thursday, August 29 2024, 4 - 6pm 115 Peabody Hall Michaela McSweeney Philosophy Boston University Michaela McSweeney's website Special Information: Contact jeremydavis@uga.edu for a livestream link of this event. This is a big-picture talk about the metaphysics of logic. I will ask questions like the following: What is logic trying to capture? What is it for? And what kinds of assumptions are we epistemically entitled to make about it? I will (almost) entirely avoid technicalities. I will argue that, on a picture of logic that should appeal to most people (everyone but the most extremely hardcore rationalists and idealists), there is a serious problem with the way that we make use of logic in other areas of philosophy. Michaela McSweeney is an associate professor of philosophy at Boston University. Her work spans philosophy of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of psychiatry, and social philosophy. She is currently (slowly!) working on two books: one on abstract objects and how we know about them, and the other on what grasping is.
