Gillian Russell: "Hume’s Law and other Barriers to Entailment"
- Date: 3 February 2022, 10:15–12:00
- Location: Zoom (contact Matti Eklund for link)
- Type: Seminar
- Organiser: Department of Philosophy
- Contact person: Matti Eklund
The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy
Gillian Russell, Australian Catholic University: "Hume’s Law and other Barriers to Entailment"
Abstract
This paper looks at how to prove Hume’s law as one of a number of interrelated barriers to entailment and in particular what to make of proposed counterexamples that require complex logics, such as those based on Ought implies Can.