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Seminar of the Laboratory of Mathematical Logic (Saint Petersburg)
June 23, 2020 18:30, Saint Petersburg, online
 


Perspectives on the Universe

G. Priest

City University of New York, The Graduate Center
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G. Priest



Abstract: Joel Hamkins has advanced a well known view to the effect that there is no unique universe of sets. There is simply a plurality of such universes. We have, then, a pluriverse. A natural objection to this view is that there is still a single universe: the totality, $\mathbb{V}$, in which all the members of the pluriverse find themselves. In this paper I consider a reply to the objection, to the effect that there is no such thing as $\mathbb{V}$ in itself. Rather, each member of the pluriverse simply gives a different perspective on what $\mathbb{V}$ is like. This view is then generalised in the light of mathematical pluralism. What emerges is a vastly expanded, and logic-neutral view of the pluriverse.

Supplementary materials: priest_spb_2020_slides.pdf (286.7 Kb)

Language: English
 
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