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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/grsem-tba-2/
SUMMARY:GRSem: Facts and Access: Reframing the Integration Challenge for Re
 alists and Anti-Realists
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Peacocke's (1999) Integration Challenge asks us to 
 reconcile\, for any given domain\, a plausible account of what is involved
  in the truth of statements in that domain with a credible account of how 
 we come to know them. I develop a new formulation on which the task is to 
 explain how epistemic access to facts in a given domain is possible\, give
 n a metaphysical account of their nature. This formulation has two advanta
 ges. First\, it replaces the metaphorical notion of "integration" with the
  more tractable demand to explain the relation between a domain's subject 
 matter and our access to it. Second\, by setting aside the notion of truth
 \, it prevents theorists from sidestepping the challenge by denying that s
 tatements in the domain have truthmakers.\n\nThe Integration Challenge is 
 often taken to be particularly pressing for realist theories\, on which th
 e facts in a domain are mind-independent\, objective\, and (in some cases)
  causally inert. Anti-realist theories are supposed to ease the difficulty
  by denying mind-independence\, thereby making epistemic access less myste
 rious. In the case of modality\, Amie Thomasson's (2021) Modal Normativism
  promises just that. I argue\, however\, that her account does not yet pro
 vide a sufficient explanation. Specifically\, Modal Normativism merely rel
 ocates the Integration Challenge to a different domain\, in a way structur
 ally analogous to a familiar objection against realist accounts.
CATEGORIES:Graduate Research Seminar (GRSem)
LOCATION:Seminari María Zambrano\, UB
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