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Thinking About Death in Plato’s Euthydemus.
6:00 pm
Thinking About Death in Plato’s Euthydemus.
@ Wolff Conference Room/D1103
Feb 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Book discussion on Gwenda-lin Grewal’s, Thinking About Death in Plato’s Euthydemus. A Close Reading and New Translation (OUP 2022) Speakers: Gwenda-lin Grewal (NSSR) Cinzia Arruzza (NSSR) Nicholas Pappas (CUNY) Thinking of Death places Plato’s Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy’s fate arrives in the form of Socrates’ encounter with the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who appear as if they are the[...]
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Neopragmatism and logic: A deflationary proposal. Lionel Shapiro (UConn)
4:15 pm
Neopragmatism and logic: A deflationary proposal. Lionel Shapiro (UConn)
@ CUNY Grad Center 9205
Feb 27 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Neopragmatists seek to sidestep metaphysical puzzles by shifting the target of philosophical explanation from the objects we think and talk about to the functions of expressions and concepts in our cognitive economy. Logical vocabulary can serve as a target for neopragmatist inquiry, and it has also posed obstacles to neopragmatist accounts of other vocabulary. I will argue that the obstacles can be addressed by adopting a neopragmatist perspective toward logical relations, such as logical consequence,[...]
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