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LOGOS Extra (web) Talks - Art and Eligibility
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08-08-2022
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You are warmly invited to the following LOGOS Extra (web) Talk:Philip Letts (Manchester), "Art and Eligibility"
Monday, 8 August 2022, 4-6pm (CEST) ABSTRACT: In the first half of the twentieth century analytic philosophy sought answers to philosophical questions by adopting a use-internal approach to analysing the language and concepts of the questions’ formulation (see e.g. Moore 1903). In the second half, the approach came under pressure from metasemantic inscrutability worries: Grue riddles (Goodman 1954), Private Language arguments (Wittgenstein 1958, Kripke 1982), Quine’s (1960) Argument from Below and Permutation Argument s (Putnam 1980). These showed that use-internal facts couldn’t exclude radically deviant interpretations of our talk and thought. In mainstream metaphysics, a popular response to these problems appeals to a use-external notion of eligibility-for-reference ( Lewis 1983). This ties reference to explanation and promotes abductive considerations for evaluating answers to philosophical questions (cf. McGee 2005, Sider 2011, Williams 2019). I argue that inscrutability arguments apply to the metaphysics of art and I explore implications of accepting the eligibility solution and of promoting abductive methodology for several fundamental topics: definitions of art (or ART), analysing aesthetic and artistic properties, and for evaluating theories about the ontological category and identity conditions of artworks (of a given kind). Please fill out this form to receive the weblink for the talk (if possible, using your institutional academic email address):
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