Dispensing with the Grounds of Logical Necessity

This lecture from the Orange County Inland Empire (OCIE) Seminar series in History and Philosophy of Mathematics features Otávio Bueno from the University of Miami examining the foundations of logical necessity. Explore the philosophical question of what makes logical laws necessary, as Bueno critically analyzes four different explanatory approaches: truth-conditions, invariance of truth-values under different interpretations, possible worlds, and brute facts. After demonstrating the shortcomings of each approach, discover an alternative conception of logic that completely dispenses with the need for grounding logical necessity. The nearly two-hour presentation, hosted by Chapman University's Schmid College of Science and Technology as part of their hybrid seminar series, offers a rigorous philosophical investigation that challenges fundamental assumptions about the nature of logical laws.