Dear all,
Just a reminder, the SMG is meeting this morning at 11am - our speaker
is Kyle Mitchell on "Metaontological Pluralism". Further details
attached.
Best wishes,
Matthew Simpson
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SUBJECT:
Serious Metaphysics - 29th Jan - Kyle Mitchell "Metaontological
Pluralism"
DATE:
23-01-2014 10:04
FROM:
Matthew Simpson <[email protected]>
TO:
Phil Events <[email protected]>, Phil Metaphysics
<[email protected]>
Dear all,
The next SMG meeting will be on Wednesday 29th Jan, between 11am-12.30pm
(once again, please note the new time) in the Philosophy Faculty board
room. Our speaker is Kyle Mitchell on "Metaontological Pluralism"
(abstract below).
I hope to see you there! For more details about this term's programme,
please see http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG
Best wishes,
Matthew Simpson
Kyle Mitchell - _Metaontological Pluralism:_
"Carnap claimed that ontological claims always take place within, what
he called, a "linguistic framework". I will discuss a metaontological
stance which claims that (1) there are at least two linguistic
frameworks which perform different practical jobs and (2) that neither
of these linguistic frameworks should be privileged over the other. I
will try to flesh out this view by dipping into the Quine-Carnap
dispute, discussing some plausible views which fit into the general
metaontological framework and by considering how we are to think about
quantification on this view. Finally, I will offer some motivations for
endorsing "metaontological pluralism" and attempt to fend of some
objections inspired by the recent literature in metaontology."
--
Matthew Simpson
PhD Student in Philosophy
University of Cambridge
Mail: Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN
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Matthew Simpson
PhD Student in Philosophy
University of Cambridge
Mail: Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN
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