Talks
The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography
Paul Seaward on "The History of the Rebellion" by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
Inaugural lecture: logic and assertion
Fri 18 October 2013
Little Hall
1913 Ludwig Wittgenstein dictated a typescript, part of what are now known as the Notes on Logic, in the presence of his supervisor, Bertrand Russell. In that typescript, Wittgenstein says that `assertion is merely psychological'? Why does he say it, is it true, and what consequences does it have for our understanding of logic?
Cost: free
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