Dear all, The second meeting of the Graduate seminar this term will take place next Monday. Mat Simpson will be giving a paper entitled 'Localist Quasi-realism and Semantic Minimalism'. 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 head to a pub. Hope to see you all there, Carlo Abstract: Simon Blackburn's meta-ethical quasi-realism stands against the idea that ethical statements represent the world, in any substantial sense. However, Blackburn is a localist quasi-realist in the sense that he thinks that some language does represent the world in this sense, so quasi-realism is not appropriate in all cases. Huw Price has argued that Blackburn's acceptance of minimalist or deflationist views about truth and related notions makes his localism impossible; instead he must embrace global quasi-realism. I argue that Price's argument (as offered in Macarthur and Price 2007) fails due to false claims about the impact of minimalism. I hope to show that closer examination of the argument gives us a better perspective on quasi-realism and its relationship with minimalism. However, this ultimately shows us that Price's conclusion is correct, just for different reasons than the ones he offers. I also think, for what it's worth, that the grad seminar may not be the best venue for a respondent type system - one of the best things about it is that it is so friendly and open, and I think having a respondent would make that a bit less so. _____________________________________________________ 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
