TIM BUTTON's TEACHING RESOURCES
Transcendental Arguments
Cambridge, Part IB lectures, Michaelmas 2011
- 1: What are transcendental arguments?
(handout)
- 2: Mind the gap
(handout)
- 3: Modesty & transparent fig leaves
(handout)
- 4: Putnam's brains in vats
(handout)
Realism and Anti-realism
Cambridge, Part II lectures, Michaelmas 2011
- 1: The semantic turn & the model-theoretic arguments
(handout)
- 2: The 'just more theory manoeuvre' & the influence of Carnap
(handout)
- 3: Realism's relationship with scepticism
(handout)
- 4: Truth & warrant
(handout)
Philosophy and Model Theory
Birkbeck, research/graduate seminar with Sean Walsh, Winter 2011
- 1: Structures, Satisfaction, & Permutation Arguments
(handout)
- 2: Löwenheim-Skolem Arguments and Indeterminacy (handout)
- 3: Computable Model Theory Arguments & Church's Thesis
- 4: The Just More Theory Manoeuvre (handout)
- 5: Workshop on Tennenbaum's Theorem
- 6: Non-Standard Analysis & the Calculus of Infinitesimals (handout)
- 7: Conservation, Knowledge of Structure, & Newman's Problem
- 8: Identity, Indiscernibility, & Invariance (handout)
- 9: Supervenience & Infinitary Logics
- 10: Morley's Theorem & the Idea of Geometry