On the second semester of the academic year 2019-2020 we will meet every fortnight (on Tuesday from 16:30 to 18 h.) to comment Hillary Putnam’s book Ethics without Ontology. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard UP, 2005. Meetings will be held in the Logic Seminar Room, on the 7th floor of the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences.
Schedule:
11/02/2020
Putnam (1981): “Convention: A Theme in Philosophy”. New Literary History 13 (1): 1-14.
PART I. Ethics without Ontology
25/02/2020
LECTURE 1 Ethics without Metaphysics 15
03/03/2020
LECTURE 2 A Defense of Conceptual Relativity 33
24/03/2020
LECTURE 3 Objectivity without Objects 52
07/04/2020
LECTURE 4 “Ontology”: An Obituary 71
PART II. Enlightenment and Pragmatism
21/04/2020
LECTURE 1 The Three Enlightenments 89
05/05/2020
LECTURE 2 Skepticism about Enlightenment 109
Contact:
Jordi.Valor@uv.es