Dear all,

We will have our next LIRa session tomorrow, on Thursday, 16 May 16:30.

This session will be only online, not on location.

To attend, please use our recurring zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/89230639823?pwd=YWJuSnJmTDhXcWhmd1ZkeG5zb0o5UT09 (Meeting ID: 892 3063 9823, Passcode: 421723)

You can find the details of the talk below.

Speaker: Francisca Silva (University of St Andrews)

Date and Time: Thursday, May 16th 2024, 16:30-18:00

Venue: online only

Title: Epistemic Logic with Partial Grasp

Abstract. In this talk I'll argue that we have to gain in recognizing in our epistemic logics with subject matters a relation between agents and the parts of subject matters that play a role in agents' cognitive lives. I call this relation "grasping". I zone in on one notion of having a partial grasp of a subject matter -- that of agents grasping part of the subject matter that they are attending to -- and characterize it. I propose that giving up the idealization that we fully grasp the subject matters we attend to allows one to more realistically characterize the epistemic life of agents. To show this, I propose an epistemic logic with partial grasp that has in mind considerations from extensions of subject matter theory to the first-order case with the aim of avoiding certain forms of logical omniscience, and which provides an alternative to immanent closure (Yablo, 2014).

Hope to see you there!

The LIRa team