Philosophy of Logic:
The Paradox of Knowability

Instructor: Joe Salerno, Ph.D.
Email: knowability@gmail.com
Office Hours: TBA

Text: J. Salerno (ed.), New Essays on the Knowability Paradox, OUP, forthcoming. Draft of papers available electronically.


 

Monday

Wednesday

Week 1

May 8

The Knowability Paradox
and Recent History

May 10

Dummett's Anti-realism and
Intuitionistic Logic

  • Williamson (1982; 1988; 1994)
  • Percival (1990)
  • Dummett (New Essay)
  • Rasmussen (New Essay)
  • Bermudez (New Essay)

Week 2

May 15

The Knower
and Paraconsistent Logic

  • Beall (2000)
  • Priest (New Essay)
  • Beall (New Essay)

May 17

Early History:
the 1945 debate, and Fitch's 1963 paper

  • Fitch (1963)
  • 1945 Anonymous Referee Reports (New Essay)

Week 3

May 22

Temporal and Epistemic Modalities

  • van Benthem (2004)
  • van Benthem (New Essay)
  • Burgess (New Essay)
  • Linsky (New Essay)
  • Kelp and Pritchard (New Essay)

May 24

Class to be Rescheduled

Restriction Strategies and
the Pharaonic Paradoxes

  • Brogaard and Salerno (2002)
  • Rosenkranz (2004)
  • Brogaard and Salerno (forthcoming)
  • Williamson (New Essay)
  • Kvanvig (New Essay)
  • Tennant (New Essay)

Week 4

May 29

Modal and Mathematical Fictionalism

  • Brogaard
  • Bueno

May 31

Knowability Reconsidered

  • Hand
  • Jenkins
  • Hart
  • Restall

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