ELFT HÍRADÓ

[Gömöri Márton <gomorim AT gmail.com>]

Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224
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P R O G R A M

The seminar is held in hybrid format, in person (Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224)
and online. Zoom Meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/889933315?pwd=Q3U3V3VQdXpXckhJYWRrcWRiMUhhQT09

8 November (Friday) 4:15 - 6:15 PM  Room 224 + ONLINE

Fabio Lampert
Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna

A priori knowledge and our limits

Abstract: There is a venerable argument stated and defended in multiple
ways, since the Early Middle Ages, which attempts to show that there is no
free will or moral responsibility if human actions were infallibly
predicted in the past – by a divine being, supercomputer, or what have you.
The Spanish philosopher and theologian Luis de Molina (1535-1600)
formulated one of the clearest versions of this argument, only to reject
its main inferential move without any argument. For this reason, Molina’s
’solution’ to the puzzle was by and large ignored. I will argue, however,
that technology stemming from the works of Saul Kripke (in particular, the
thesis of the necessity of identity and some instances of contingent a
priori knowledge) provides the tools to generate an argument motivating the
Molinist solution to the puzzle in question. Molina didn’t have an argument
because he didn’t have Kripke. But we did.

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Seminar website: http://lps.elte.hu/lps

The seminar is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and
faculty members
from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, coffee
break, 60 minute discussion.

The organizers: Márton Gömöri and Zalán Molnár