Abstract: "I articulate and defend the claim that possibility is "open ended": a given set of possibilities can always be used to characterize further possibilities."

Agustín Rayo is a philosophy professor at MIT. His research is in the intersection of the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of language. He has done work on understanding the relationship between our language and the world it represents, on clarifying certain connections between logic and mathematics, and on investigating the limits of communicable thought. He is the author of The Construction of Logical Space (Oxford University Pr., 2013) and many articles, and teaches a MOOC on edX based on his undergraduate class at MIT,  "Paradox and Infinity." Read more about him here.

The Sapientia Lecture Series is funded by The Mark J. Byrne 1985 Fund in Philosophy.