This will be a rather grim, but instructive, history of how unambiguous concepts turn into foggy ones, formal necessity into arbitrariness, syllogisms into paralogisms. It will, in short, deal with a ...
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome! Coffee and light breakfast. 9:30 – 11:00 Eric Watkins (UC San Diego): “The Supreme Principle of Pure Reason and the Paralogisms.” ...