Dear all, The last meeting of the Graduate Seminar this term will take place next Monday. Kyle Mitchell will be giving a paper entitled 'Metaontological Pluralism'. An abstract is attached below.
We will be starting at 4.30pm and finishing at about 6.00pm in the Graduate common room. Afterwards we'll probably head to the Red Bull. Hope to see you all there, Carlo ABSTRACT: In his important (1950) paper “Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology”, Carnap is typically taken to have defended a pluralist metaontology in the sense that there are many different linguistic frameworks and that ontological questions can only be decided relative to a linguistic framework. In this talk, I will distinguish between three different ways in which one can claim to be a metaontological pluralist: by endorsing either (1) quantifier variance, (2) framework-relative pleonastic inferences, or (3) pragmatic pluralism. I will claim that only pragmatic pluralism vindicates a genuinely pluralist metaontology in the face criticisms coming from metaontological monists like Quine and Sider. _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
