Dear all, Trinity Philosophy Society is excited to invite you to our next talk:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kyle Mitchell: 'The Bearable Lightness of Being: Pragmatism and Sider's Structure' Friday, 22nd Feb, at 8:00 PM Junior Parlour, Trinity College -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kyle Mitchell is a Philosophy graduate student here at Trinity, and is the current Secretary of TPS. The abstract for the talk is at the bottom of this email. All are welcome, and drinks will be served afterwards. I hope to see you there! Best wishes, Jacob ABSTRACT Robust realism about ontology has come under attack from deflationists who think that answers to ontological questions are not metaphysically substantive. Recently, Ted Sider has tried to vindicate a way to do metaphysically substantive ontology by appealing to the notion of structure. The structure of my talk will be as follows. After distinguishing two different ways to be a deflationist about ontology and introducing Sider's ontological realism, I present my own view: ontological pragmatism. I show some reasons of thinking that the pragmatist interpretation of the existential quantifier fares better than Sider's inflated quantifier and then I show that that Sider's arguments against deflationism don't need to worry the pragmatist. Finally, I suggest that Sider's attack focuses too much on the wrong brand of deflationism and suggest that the debate between realism and deflationism about ontology should look more like the debate between realism and deflationism about truth. _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
