Draft Paper & Podcast
Issue No. 3 | Volume CXIV | 2013 – 2014
The Weight of Truth
Tim Button
University of Cambridge
Monday, 12 May 2014
17.30 – 19.15
The Woburn Suite
Senate House
University of London
Malet Street
London WC13 7HU
United Kingdom
About
Tim Button is a University Lecturer, and a Fellow of St John’s College, at the University of Cambridge. He has published articles in metaphysics, logic and philosophy of mathematics. His first book, The Limits of Realism (OUP, 2013), deals with the relationship between semantics and scepticism. It critically explores explores and develops several themes from Hilary Putnam’s work on realism and antirealism, notably: the model-theoretic arguments; the connection between truth and justification; the brain-in-vat argument; semantic externalism; and conceptual relativity.
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