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SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Peter Hylton (Boston University and University of Illinois\, Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Carnap on Metaphysics\, Before and After 1932: The Importance of Tolerance \nAbstract: Late in 1932\, Carnap accepts the Principle of Tolerance. This makes a fundamental difference to his philosophy\, although that is not always readily apparent in his writings. The present paper illustrates this claim by examining his opposition to metaphysics. It discusses his pre-1932 rejection of metaphysics and emphasizes the idea that that rejection is based on assumptions which might themselves be thought of as metaphysical. Accepting the Principle of Tolerance enables Carnap to avoid those assumptions\, but it also undercuts the basis of Carnap’s earlier opposition to metaphysics. The rest of the paper considers how\, and to what extent\, the post-1932 Carnap can give a rationale for opposing metaphysics. \nPlease note that this is an online talk on Microsoft Teams which will also be live-streamed in G03 (Edgecliffe).
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LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Giulia Schirripa (University of 58³Ô¹Ï and University of Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Vague Mereology and Supervaluationism \nAbstract: What is the referent of ‘Mt Everest’\, ‘Edinburgh’\, and even of ‘Meta’ and ‘Mark Zuckerberg’? Like dust\, vagueness ‘gets into everything’ (Dummett\, 1995\, p. 207) but\, unlike dust\, it is often taken to be only a semantic phenomenon. Standard supervaluationist accounts explain failures of reference fixing by appealing to semantic indecision\, whereas friends of vague objects urge that vagueness is\, at least in some cases\, in the world. While the existence of vague objects might well be (and has been) defended on independent grounds\, the first aim of this talk is to show that ontological vagueness might arise out of semantic indecision in compositional matters. The second aim is to discuss a novel possible direction to look at when dealing with onto-mereological vagueness. While retaining a supervaluationist gist\, the proposal is to take precisifications to be ontological rather than semantic and investigate what Classical Extensional Mereology (CEM) looks like in a precisificational dimension.  \nPlease note that the Metaphysics and Logic Seminar is starting one hour later than usual this week.
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LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams
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