{"id":14432,"date":"2025-09-08T17:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-viviane-fairbank-tba-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:38:21","slug":"metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-viviane-fairbank-tba-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-viviane-fairbank-tba-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Franz Berto, Bestimmte Negation (Or: What Is Hegel\u2019s Dialectic?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">I think Hegel\u2019s dialectic is, in Brandomian fashion, a very inferentialist theory of concepts.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">There\u2019s conspicuous textual evidence that the majority of theoretical claims in the\u00a0<i>Phenomenology<\/i>, the\u00a0<i>Science of Logic,<\/i>\u00a0the\u00a0<i>Encyclopaedia,<\/i>\u00a0are about conceptual connections.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Conceptual contents\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">are individuated by the connections with the concepts they entail and which entail them. Since theoretical as well as ordinary language expressions can be governed by incoherent inferential links, dialectic has to reshape them (one may see it as 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century conceptual engineering). In particular, concepts are shaped by relations of modal incompatibility or exclusion. So Hegel claims in the\u00a0<i>Science of Logic<\/i>\u00a0that the essence of dialectic lies in a certain idea of negation: the \u2018quite simple insight\u2019 of \u2018the logical principle that the negative is just as much positive\u2019, is all we need to understand dialectic. I propose that what he calls\u00a0<i>bestimmte Negation<\/i>, determinate or \u2018positive\u2019 negation, is such modal exclusion, out of which\u00a0<i>blosse Negation<\/i>, mere negation, i.e., the contradictory-forming operator, is abstracted as the minimal incompatible.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Hegel\u2019s dialectic is, in Brandomian fashion, a very inferentialist theory of concepts.\u00a0There\u2019s conspicuous textual evidence that the majority of theoretical claims in the\u00a0Phenomenology, the\u00a0Science of Logic,\u00a0the\u00a0Encyclopaedia,\u00a0are about conceptual&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[25],"class_list":["post-14432","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-metaphysics-and-logic-group","cat_metaphysics-and-logic-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14696,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14432\/revisions\/14696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14432"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=14432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}