Prof Tim Button: Inaugural Lecture - Meaning, Magic & Math

UCL Department of Philosophy

Join us for Prof. Button's Inaugural Professorial Lecture, hosted by the UCL Philosophy Department, followed by a drinks reception.

Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, UCL

Professor Tim Button is Head of the Philosophy Department at UCL. He recently published a serialized trilogy on <a href="https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytbu/research.html" title="https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytbu/research.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Level Theory</a>. This trilogy now has at least five parts. Before that, with Sean Walsh he published <a href="https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytbu/research.html" title="https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytbu/research.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Philosophy and Model Theory</a> (OUP, 2018). His first book was <a href="https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytbu/research.html" title="https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytbu/research.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Limits of Realism</a> (OUP, 2013).He is an associate editor of <a href="https://academic.oup.com/mind" title="https://academic.oup.com/mind" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MIND</a> and a managing editor of the <a href="https://philmath.eu/jpm/" title="https://philmath.eu/jpm/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Journal of the Philosophy of Mathematics</a>. You can find Tim's website at <a href="http://www.nottub.com/" title="http://www.nottub.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.nottub.com/</a>.

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