An Inferentialist Account of Identity and Modality

February 16, 2021

Abstract: In this talk I will show how defining rules in a hypersequent setting can give a uniform proof-theoretic semantics of identity and modality, allowing – equally naturally – for (1) modal operators for which identity statements are necessary (if true), and (2) modal operators for which identity statements can be contingently true.

The talk is an online presentation for the ERC EXPRESS Project in Amsterdam, and the PHILMATH Seminar in Paris.
The slides for the talk are available here.
Here is the recording of the talk:

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I’m Greg Restall, and this is my personal website. ¶ I am the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, and the Director of the Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology ¶ I like thinking about – and helping other people think about – logic and philosophy and the many different ways they can inform each other.

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