Dear all, Kyle Mitchell (Trinity College) will be giving a paper entitled “From Pragmatism to Easy Ontology—and Back Again" (abstract below) at the Serious Metaphysics Group this coming Wednesday.
The seminar will run again in our usual time from 4:30 to 6:00pm this week, in the Board Room of the Philosophy Faculty. Hope to see you there, Carlo Abstract Pragmatists have often been dismissive of traditional philosophical attempts to answer existence questions. Far from engaging with the usual metaphysical arguments, "the pragmatist", as Rorty claimed, "does not think of himself as any kind of metaphysician" (1982: xxviii). At the same time, recent interest in metaontology has unleashed a number of similarly dismissive or deflationary positions. You would think, therefore, that we'd have a clear view of the details of a deflationary metaontological position deserving of the title `pragmatism' already up and running. Unfortunately, it's not clear what kind of anti-metaphysical metaontology a pragmatist should hold. In this paper, I'll fill this lacuna by arguing that pragmatists should be "easy ontologists" (Thomasson, 2015) --- the two views mesh together in a variety of different ways and are mutually supportive positions. _____________________________________________________ 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.
