Workshop organized by Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre, UNMSM: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
Traditional epistemology has always rejected inconsistency on the grounds of the ex contradictione quodlibet (ECQ) logical principle. Since by ECQ, any proposition would follow from a contradiction, an inconsistent science would be uninformative and useless. Paraconsistent logics, by restricting ECQ, make it possible that at least some inconsistent science be not useless in this sense. Moreover, scholars like da Costa and Priest have even defended the possibility of corroborating contradictory propositions about the world.
In this workshop we discuss the problem that inconsistency poses to factual/empirical science, and what would it mean to accept inconsistent science. This includes the three types of inconsistency advanced by Gotesky, Bartelborth and Priest: i.e. inconsistencies (i) between a theory and data, (ii) between two different theories, and (iii) internal to a theory.
- 09h30 9h45 INTRODUCTION: Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre (UNMSM), "A map of the research on IiFS"
- 9h45 10h30 KEYNOTE TALK: María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz (UNAM/UFRJ), "The ignorance behind inconsistency toleration"
- 10h30 11h00 Francisco Doria (UFRJ), "Incompleteness in empirical sciences"
- 11h00 11h30 COFFEE BREAK
- 11h30 12h00 Ingolf Max (AML), "Types of inconsistencies in multi-dimensional logics and a linguistic application"
- 12h00 12h30 Paul Femenia (UNSJ), "Determination of inconsistency of a search engine through the amount of entries: Proposed solution"
- 12h30 13h00 Daniele Mundici (UniFI), "Consistent and inconsistent probability"
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2019 AFTERNOON
- 14h30 15h15 KEYNOTE TALK: Andrés Bobenrieth (University of Valparaiso, Chile), "Talking about whether the world is contradictory or not is, at least, a categorical mistake: Bases for an antirealistic stand about inconsistencies"
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Abstracts are welcome in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French, which are the official languages of the event. However, abstracts in German and Italian are also welcome in the evaluation phase, provided the final abstract and lecture are in any of the official languages