Aristote et la tradition péripatéticienne | Aristotle and The Peripatetic Tradition

Hermeneutic Fictionalism: A Guide for the Perplexed (G. Contessa)

Conférence | Talk

Gabriele Contessa

(Carleton University)

Hermeneutic Fictionalism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Hermeneutic fictionalism (about some class of entities (e.g.: numbers, propositions, possible  worlds, moral properties, or aesthetic properties)) is the view that ordinary speakers engage with sentences that seem to refer to or quantify over those entities analogously to how they engage with the contents of works of fiction—i.e. by participating in an elaborate pretence. One standard objection to hermeneutic fictionalism is that pretence is luminous (i.e. one cannot pretend without knowing one is pretending) and that ordinary speakers do not usually see themselves as engaging in pretence when engaging in the relevant discourse. In this paper, I will argue that, contrary to what is usually assumed, one can engage in pretence without being fully aware of that fact that one is doing so.

Friday, September 26th, 2014

3:00pm

Carleton University

River Building

Room 3228

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La vie et l’après-vie d’un chien : Diogène le cynique et sa tradition (M. Sirois)

C’est avec grand plaisir que le Département des Études anciennes et Sciences des religions vous invite à participer à :

 

Une conférence intitulée

La vie et l’après-vie d’un chien : Diogène le cynique et sa tradition

 

Conférencier

Martin Sirois

Université McGill

Diogène de Sinope est une figure évasive et difficile à cerner dans l’histoire de la philosophie.  La biographie et la doxographie de ce personnage haut en couleur sont obscurcies par leur quasi absence de témoignages contemporains, mais Diogène demeure un philosophe incoutournable bien qu’inusité.  La conférence mettra en relief quelques “faits” et abordera la question de la tradition (évidemment, et nécessairement, littéraire) de Diogène.  Entre Histoire et fiction, que peut-on réellement savoir de la vie et la pensée de Diogène?  Et comment peut-on caractériser la tradition par laquelle il nous est connu?

 

Heure

14h30

19 septembre 2014

 

 

Lieu

Salle SMD 123

Pavillon Simard

Université d’Ottawa

60 University, Ottawa

 

 

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Justification of Deduction and Induction (F. Huber)

Conférence | Talk

Franz Huber

(University of Toronto)

Justification of Deduction and Induction

This talk will cover some, but not all parts of a rather lengthy paper. The latter's thesis is that we can justify induction deductively, and that we can justify deduction inductively. I will begin by presenting my preferred variant of Hume (1739; 1748)'s argument for the thesis that we cannot justify the principle of induction. Then I will criticize the responses the resulting problem of induction has received by Carnap (1963; 1968) and by Goodman (1954), as well as briefly praise Reichenbach (1938; 1940)'s approach. 

Some of these authors compare induction to deduction. Haack (1976) compares deduction to induction, and I will critically discuss her argument for the thesis that we cannot justify the principles of deduction next. In concluding I will defend the thesis that we can justify induction by deduction, and deduction by induction, and that we can do so in a non-circular way. Along the way I will show how we can understand deduction and induction as normative theories, and I will argue that there are only hypothetical, but no categorical imperatives.

Friday, September 19th, 2014

3:00pm

University of Ottawa

Desmarais Hall (55, Laurier East)

Room 8161

Hegel Workshop

Atelier | Workshop

John Burbidge 

Hegel's Logic

John Burbidge (Trent University – Emeritus), noted Hegel scholar (The Logic of Hegel’s Logic) and external examiner for Wesley Furlotte’s upcoming PhD thesis defence, has agreed to lead an informal discussion on Hegel’s Logic (his own experience with its challenges, solutions etc.)

Source : Wikipedia

Friday, September 19th, 2014
3:00pm

University of Ottawa

Desmarais Building

Room 9143

In Defense of an Axiological Identification (D. Matheson)

Conférence | Talk

David Matheson

(Carleton University)

In Defense of an Axiological Identification

Friday, September 12th, 2014

3:00pm

Carleton University

River Building

Room 3228

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