سخنرانی دکتر سید نصرالله موسویان با عنوان «آیا انتولوژی امری پیش افتاده است؟» در پژوهشکده فلسفه تحلی

آیا آنتولوژی امری پیش‌پا افتاده است؟

سید نصرالله موسویان

پژوهشگاه دانشهای بنیادی

Abstract:

How hard is it to answer an ontological question? Ontological trivialism, OT, inspired by Carnap’s internal-external distinction among “questions of existence”, replies “very easy.” According to OT, almost every ontologically disputed entity trivially exists. OT has been defended by many, including Schiffer (1996; 2003; 2006) and Schaffer (2009).

In this talk, I will take issue with OT. After introducing the view in the context of Carnap-Quine dispute and presenting two arguments for it,

I will discuss Hofweber’s (2005a; 2007) argument against OT and explain why it fails. Next, I will introduce a modified version of ontological trivialism, i.e. negative ontological trivialism, NOT, defended by Hofweber (2005a), according to which some ontologically disputed entities, e.g. properties, (almost) trivially do not exist. I will show that NOT fails too.

Then I will outline a Meinongian answer to the original question, namely, ‘How hard is it to answer an ontological question?’ The Carnapian intuition of the triviality of internal questions can be saved by the Meinongian proposal that quantification and reference are not ontologically committing and the Quinean intuition of the legitimacy of interesting ontological questions can be respected by the Meinongian distinction between being and so-being.

زمان: دوشنبه، ۷۱ آبان ماه ۵۹ ، ساعت ۷۱ الی ۷۱

مکان: میدان شهید باهنر، پژوهشگاه دانشهای بنیادی (مرکز تحقیقات فیزیک نظری و ریاضیات)،

پژوهشکده فلسفه تحلیلی، سالن شماره ۷