Lecturer	András Máté and Péter Mekis
Title	Logic Reading Seminar
Time	Thursday, 18:00--19:30
Location	i224 (Department of Logic)
Codes	BMA-LOTD-312.01, BMA-FILD-402.51, BBN-FIL-402.51, BMI-LOTD-312E.01, BMI-LOTD-105E.2
Prerequisites	Although there are no strict prerequisites for this course, familiarity with the basic techniques of standard first-order logic is recommended.
Description	We are going to discuss contemporary papers from various areas of logic, with an emphasis on the philosophical, rather than the technical, aspects of the texts. In this semester, the main focus is on the philosophica aspects of quantification. Of course, the titles may change and new tites may come up as we go along. The reading material can be found in the Logic Reading Room.
Literature	Last updated: March 27 1 Parsons, Ch., A Plea for Substitutional Quantification In Jacquette, ed., Philosophy of Logic. An Anthology. Blackwell, 2002. 156--160. [--> Péter, February 20, 27] 2 Goldfarb, W. D., Logic in the Twenties: The Nature of the Quantifier. Journal of Symbolic Logic 351--368. [--> Bianka, March 6] 3 Baldwin, Interpretations of Quantifiers. In Jacquette, ed., Philosophy of Logic. An Anthology. Blackwell, 2002. 169--182. [--> William, March 20-27] 4 Boolos, G., To Be Is To Be a Value of a Variable (or Some Values of Some Variables).  In Boolos, Logic, Logic and Logic. Harvard UP, 1998. 54--72. [--> András, March 27-April 3] 5 Fine, K., Relatively Unrestricted Quantification. In Rayo & Uzquiano, Absolute Generality. Clarendon, 2006. 20--44. [--> Réka, April 3-10] 6 Williamson, T., Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality. In Rayo & Uzquiano, Absolute Generality. Clarendon, 2006. 369--389.  [--> Mihajlo, April 10] 7, 8, ... TBA