Dear All, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held next Tuesday (5 November). We are delighted to welcome Benjamin Marschall (Cambridge), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Carnap's Defence of Abstract Objects'. Here is the abstract for his talk:
Abstract objects such as numbers are commonly thought to pose philosophical problems, and have frequently been rejected on account of being metaphysically dubious. According to Carnap this attitude is mistaken, however, as even empiricists can happily accept abstracta – provided that talk about them is understood as internal to a linguistic framework. In this paper I explain what Carnap’s internalism amounts to, and argue that it fails to work in full generality by combining two arguments by Gödel and Beth. The meeting will be held from 2:00pm until 3:45 in the Jane Harrison Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. The earlier than usual start time is to allow attendees who wish to do so time to make their way to Elliott Sober's third Tarner Lecture in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, which commences at 4:00pm. If you would like to have dinner with the speaker in the evening following the talk, please email the secretaries of the club (mscsecretar...@gmail.com) by midday on Monday 4th. This dinner is open to anyone who has attended the talk and those who sign up for dinner will be notified of the details closer to the time. Best wishes, -- Alex Horne, Roxane Noel and Zoe Walker Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge msc...@hermes.cam.ac.uk http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
