The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate Center, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sept 5. NO MEETING
Sep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto)
Sep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame)
Sep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine), Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine), and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven)
Oct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY)
Oct 10. NO MEETING
Oct 17. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
Oct 24. Friederika Moltmann (CNRS, Côte d’Azur)
Oct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Nov 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)
Nov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)
Nov 21. Marko Malink (NYU)
Nov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)
Dec 5. Martin Pleitz (Muenster)
Dec 12. Harry Deutsch (Illinois State)
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate Center, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sept 5. NO MEETING
Sep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto)
Sep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame)
Sep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine), Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine), and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven)
Oct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY)
Oct 10. NO MEETING
Oct 17. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
Oct 24. Friederika Moltmann (CNRS, Côte d’Azur)
Oct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Nov 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)
Nov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)
Nov 21. Marko Malink (NYU)
Nov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)
Dec 5. Martin Pleitz (Muenster)
Dec 12. Harry Deutsch (Illinois State)
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate Center, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sept 5. NO MEETING
Sep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto)
Sep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame)
Sep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine), Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine), and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven)
Oct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY)
Oct 10. NO MEETING
Oct 17. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
Oct 24. Friederika Moltmann (CNRS, Côte d’Azur)
Oct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Nov 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)
Nov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)
Nov 21. Marko Malink (NYU)
Nov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)
Dec 5. Martin Pleitz (Muenster)
Dec 12. Harry Deutsch (Illinois State)
Susan Neiman develops in Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (2002, Princeton: Princeton University Press) a watershed perspective on the longstanding problem of evil, the perniciously difficult to satisfy “need to find order within those appearances so unbearable that they threaten reason’s ability to go on.” The book thereby also presents a radically new perspective on traditional debates within metaphysics. On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, we gather to celebrate her accomplishment and to advance the research program it reflects. Participants will include, in addition to Neiman herself: Annalise Acorn, Frederick Beiser, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Omri Boehm, Dan Brudney, Caroline Bynum, Lorraine Daston, Michael Della Rocca, Wendy Doniger, Wolfram Ellenberger, John Faithful Hamer, Carey Harrison, Patricia Kitcher, Philip Kitcher, Christia Mercer, Cornel West, Allen Wood, and James Wood.
With responses from Mark Siderits (Illinois State University)
ABSTRACT: Buddhist philosophers often draw a distinction between two different kinds of truth: conventional truth (saṃvṭi-satya) and ultimate truth (paramārtha-satya). Abhidharma Buddhists philosophers typically understand this distinction in terms of an ontological distinction between two different kinds of entities: ultimately real entities (paramārtha-sat) and conventionally real entities (saṃvṛti-sat). Similar to contemporary philosophical discussions about ordinary objects, Buddhist philosophers debate the ontological status of conventional entities and the semantics of discourse concerning them. Mark Siderits (2015, 2021, 2022) has influentially argued for an eliminitivist position he calls “Buddhist reductionism” that interprets the Abhidharma position as one that denies conventional entities exist but that retains discourse involving apparent reference to them. However, in a recent article Kris McDaniel (2019), a prominent defender of ontological pluralism, challenges that view by proposing that the Abhidharma Buddhist distinction between conventional truth and ultimate truth be “defined up” from a more basic distinction between two different ways an entity can exist: conventionally or ultimately. In this paper I argue that Saṃghabhadra’s account of conventional reality and truth does lends itself well to McDaniel’s proposal but I will also argue that the account of conventional and ultimate truth that results differs in important ways from the models he offers. I will end by offering a modification of McDaniel’s account of conventional truth that is derived from Saṃghabhadra’s pluralist ontology. That view will, unlike the views suggested by both Siderits and McDaniel, allow for there to be ultimate truths about what is conventionally true.
Dinner will be kindly offered by the Columbia University Seminars.
RSVP is required for dinner. Please email Lucilla with eating requirements at lm3335@columbia.edu.
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate Center, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sept 5. NO MEETING
Sep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto)
Sep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame)
Sep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine), Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine), and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven)
Oct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY)
Oct 10. NO MEETING
Oct 17. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
Oct 24. Friederika Moltmann (CNRS, Côte d’Azur)
Oct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Nov 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)
Nov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)
Nov 21. Marko Malink (NYU)
Nov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)
Dec 5. Martin Pleitz (Muenster)
Dec 12. Harry Deutsch (Illinois State)
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate Center, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sept 5. NO MEETING
Sep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto)
Sep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame)
Sep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine), Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine), and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven)
Oct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY)
Oct 10. NO MEETING
Oct 17. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
Oct 24. Friederika Moltmann (CNRS, Côte d’Azur)
Oct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Nov 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)
Nov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)
Nov 21. Marko Malink (NYU)
Nov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)
Dec 5. Martin Pleitz (Muenster)
Dec 12. Harry Deutsch (Illinois State)
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate Center, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sept 5. NO MEETING
Sep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto)
Sep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame)
Sep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine), Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine), and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven)
Oct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY)
Oct 10. NO MEETING
Oct 17. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
Oct 24. Friederika Moltmann (CNRS, Côte d’Azur)
Oct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Nov 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)
Nov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)
Nov 21. Marko Malink (NYU)
Nov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)
Dec 5. Martin Pleitz (Muenster)
Dec 12. Harry Deutsch (Illinois State)
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate Center, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sept 5. NO MEETING
Sep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto)
Sep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame)
Sep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine), Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine), and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven)
Oct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY)
Oct 10. NO MEETING
Oct 17. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
Oct 24. Friederika Moltmann (CNRS, Côte d’Azur)
Oct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Nov 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)
Nov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)
Nov 21. Marko Malink (NYU)
Nov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)
Dec 5. Martin Pleitz (Muenster)
Dec 12. Harry Deutsch (Illinois State)
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Talks may be either virtual (via Zoom) or in-person (at the Graduate Center, Room 7314). The provisional schedule is as follows:
Sept 5. NO MEETING
Sep 12. Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto)
Sep 19. Bokai Yao (Notre Dame)
Sep 26. Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine), Louise Dupuis (Paris Dauphine), and Matteo Michelini (Eindhoven)
Oct 3. Yale Weiss (CUNY)
Oct 10. NO MEETING
Oct 17. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
Oct 24. Friederika Moltmann (CNRS, Côte d’Azur)
Oct 31. Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Nov 7. Victoria Gitman (CUNY)
Nov 14. Tommy Kivatinos (Auburn)
Nov 21. Marko Malink (NYU)
Nov 28. William McCarthy (Columbia)
Dec 5. Martin Pleitz (Muenster)
Dec 12. Harry Deutsch (Illinois State)