CAMBRIDGE REALIST WORKSHOP Date: Monday March 09 , Speaker: Beatrice Kobow (Universität Leipzig, Institute of Philosophy) Topic: Do Fictions Help us Understand the World?
The location: Latimer Room, Clare College Time: Talk 8pm; drinks from 7:30 Abstract: The goal of the presentation will be to elucidate the epistemic and ontological role of fictions for a social ontology. This contributes to the logical reconstruction of our knowledge of perspective. Collective perspective is what we need to understand in order to make sense of collective responsibility, of institutions, of rights and obligations. I approach these issues by offering a contemporary reading of Hans Vaihinger’s classical work The Philosophy of the As-If (1911). Vaihinger discusses how the knower’s stance towards her knowledge oscillates between a dogmatic, a hypothetical and an as-if mode. I apply this discussion to the deontic realm of human action that is constituted by language and address epistemological concerns as they apply to the realm of the social in this framework. For more information go to: http://www.csog.econ.cam.ac.uk/Cambridge-Realist-Workshop/workshop-programme or http://www.csog.econ.cam.ac.uk/ _____________________________________________________ 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 Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
