Event Detail

Mon Nov 18, 2024
301 Philosophy Hall
12–1 PM
Work in Progress Talk
Ezra Rubenstein
Work In Progress Talk: Conjunction as Identity

How do conjunctions relate to their conjuncts? How, for example, does the proposition relate to the propositions and ? This talk will explore the seemingly bizarre view that the conjunction of two propositions just is those propositions. I will discuss two ways of motivating the view, and whether there is any reason to prefer it to the seemingly incompatible view that the disjunction of two propositions just is those propositions.