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CSLI Calendar, Oct. 1, 3:1


       C S L I   C A L E N D A R   O F   P U B L I C   E V E N T S
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1 October 1987                    Stanford                      Vol. 3, No. 1
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     A weekly publication of The Center for the Study of Language and
     Information, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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          CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT THURSDAY, 8 October 1987

   3:30 p.m.		Tea
     Ventura Hall		

   4:15 p.m.		CSLI/Philosophy Colloquium
     Philosophy		Providing a Rational Basis for Morality
     Bldg. 90:91A	Holly Smith, Dept. of Philosophy, 
			University of Arizona
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                              ANNOUNCEMENT
                Fall Seminars, TINLunches, and Colloquia

   This fall we are going to try something a bit different for our
   Thursday Seminars and and at least some of the TINLunches.

   Thursday Seminars will consist mainly of two- or three-week-long
   miniseries from key research areas.  Each miniseries will be
   structured to give CSLI researchers and visiting scholars a clear
   picture of progress in that area.  Two or three of the lectures in
   each series will be followed a week later by a "related TINLunch"
   during which people can ask questions and/or continue discussing the
   lecture of the previous week.

   The CSLI Colloquium Series will be irregular, as it was last year.

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                           PHILOSOPHY SEMINAR
                   Seminar on Issues in Logical Theory
                             Philosophy 396
                           Tuesdays, 3:15-5:05
                              Bldg. 90:92Q
                       Instructor: John Etchemendy
                     (Etchemendy@csli.stanford.edu)

   In this seminar, we will work carefully through the book THE LIAR: An
   Essay on Truth and Circularity, by Barwise and Etchemendy.  The
   seminar may be useful for anyone who either (a) wants an introduction
   to some of the basic ideas of situation semantics, (b) is interested
   in set-theoretic techniques for modeling nonwellfounded
   objects/processes, (c) is interested in the structure of propositions
   and information, or -- last and least -- (d) is interested in the
   paradox of the liar.
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