[SydPhil] University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series, Alex Kocurek, (Cornell)

[Ryan Cox]

Hi everyone,

This week's speaker in the University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series is Alex Kocurek, (Cornell)

The title of the talk is "Verbal Disputes and Metadisputes". Here is an abstract for the talk:

Impasses in philosophical discourse often prompt us to question the very nature of the dispute at hand. Is there a fact of the matter as to which side is right? Or does the answer simply turn on, as Carnap would put it, a choice of linguistic framework? Such questions have given rise to metadisputes, which, ironically, have become just as intractable as the first-order disputes they are about. This talk explores the possibility that these metadisputes themselves might be verbal. I propose a general framework for analyzing verbal disputes that can shed light on this possibility and argue that identifying whether a dispute is verbal ultimately hinges on one’s metasemantic views and that, in some instances, might entail there is no factual resolution to the question. I’ll consider how to theorize about such higher-order matters and explore some of the ramifications this view would have for philosophical methodology.

The seminar will take place at 3:30pm on Wednesday Apr 10 in the Philosophy Seminar Room (N494).

Enquiries about the seminar series can be directed to ryan.cox at sydney.edu.au

Ryan Cox
Associate Lecturer in Philosophy
Discipline of Philosophy
School of Humanities
University of Sydney
ryan.cox at sydney.edu.au

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