Dear all, The next USyd philosophy postgraduate colloquium will be held on Monday September 8 @ 2pm in the Muniment room (Quadrangle building, University of Sydney). We will have an afternoon tea straight after the talk. All very welcome!!
Talk details: Speaker: Dominic Dimech Title: *Scepticism and Naturalism* In this presentation I want to do two things: give a critical examination of what scepticism is and then talk in detail about what naturalism as response to scepticism is. My starting point for the examination will be the common argument that if everything can be doubted then scepticism can be doubted and therefore either scepticism is false or it is self-refuting. I will be making reference largely to Michael Frede's comments on scepticism here but I also want to flesh out the consequences of replies to the common argument a little further than what he does. I then want to turn my attention to the status of natural beliefs, asking whether they are justified, unjustified or possibly neither. I doing this I want to draw attention to some meta-sceptical issues, specifically asking why we find scepticism worrisome at all and what could ever constitute a satisfactory response to scepticism.
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