The Metaphysics and Logic (M&L) Research Group focuses on a range of issues in logic and metaphysics: quantification and ontological commitment, identity and indiscernibility, modality and dependence, plurals and groups, mereology and masses, hyperintensionality for properties and propositions, natural and social kinds, non-classical logics, logical pluralism, the interplay of proof theory and model theory, and more.
Meetings in Summer 2024: the group meets in Edgecliffe Room G03 every Wednesday, 3pm to 5pm, from 3rd April to 3rd July 2024. For details of the current programme, see the ´¡°ù³¦³óé Calendar.
Microsoft Teams: talks are usually livestreamed on Microsoft Teams. To join the M&L team on Teams, please contact the group convenors.
Group convenors: Harry Vincent and Elias Yuan.
Principal Investigator: Greg Restall
Members: Soroush Rafiee Rad, Franz Berto, Miriam Bowen, Aaron Cotnoir
Research students: Elias Yuan, Harry Vincent, Pak Him Lai, Sabina Dominguez Parrado, Camille Fouche, Matthew Green, Luca Alberto Rappuoli, Giulia Schirripa, Jarred Snodgrass
Associated news
Conference Acceptance: Sophie Nagler
SPOTLIGHT RESEARCH COMPETITION FINALS: SOPHIE NAGLER
VISITING: Professor Aybüke Özgün
Publication: Frederik J. Andersen
Conference Acceptance: Jace Snodgrass
Conference Acceptance: Jarred Snodgrass
Publication: Christopher Masterman
Fulbright Scholarship: Francisca Silva
Paper accepted for 2022 Joint Session: Jace Snodgrass
Prof Franz Berto awarded honorary Chaire Cardinal Mercier 2020-21
Publication: Frederik Andersen
Publication translation and introduction: Andrea Oliani
Publication: Frederik Andersen
Franz Berto – elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
