A Deflationary Account of Classes - a podcast by MCMP Team

Thomas Schindler (University of Cambridge/MCMP) gives a talk at the Workshop on Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? (2-4 June, 2016) titled "A Deflationary Account of Classes". Abstract: Charles Parsons claims that the introduction of the notion of class answers to a need to generalise on predicate places. Similarly, the notion of truth answers to a need to generalise on sentence places. Deflationism about truth is the view that truth is no more than that. This suggests that we should also consider deflationism about classes. I'll start by exploring some consequences of a deflationary account of classes. In the second part of the talk I'll present a type-free theory of classes in which a substantial amount of mathematics can be reconstructed.

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