Title: Some Observations about the Concept of Truth
Lecturer: Anil K. Gupta (Alan Ross Anderson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, and a Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh)
Chairperson: JIN Rongdong (Professor, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University)
Date: 3 pm, May 8th, 2018 (Tuesday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
Anil Gupta argues that distinct conditionals -- conditionals that are governed by different logics -- are needed to formalize the rules of Truth Introduction and Truth Elimination. Anil Gupta shows that revision theory, when enriched with the new conditionals, yields an attractive theory of truth. Anil Gupta goes on to compare this theory with one recently proposed by Hartry Field.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Anil Gupta is Alan Ross Anderson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, and a Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is at present serving as an editor of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Gupta’s main research interests lie in logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology.