Lettere forsinket er her meddelelsen om at Refleks nr. 43 er udkommet. Det kan hentes i fysisk format uden for studiesekretariatet for Filosofi ved SDU eller i netversion her.
Indhold i nr. 43:
Det transcendentale hos Kant – en tentativ (ny?)tolkning
Af stud.mag. Børge Diderichsen
Hovedet på blokken. Filosoffer og videnskabsmænd på afveje
Af stud.mag. Sara Green
Et gudløst svar til Bjørn
Af stud.mag. Børge Diderichsen
Konteksten for et "kontekstualistisk argument". Et svar til Børge
Af cand.mag. Bjørn Rabjerg
Myte eller tabsmyte? En kritisk eftertanke om filosofiens oprindelse
Af adjunkt Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen
Filosofien og dens brugbarhed
Af stud.mag. Michael Ørbæk Rasmussen
Subjektet og seksualiteten
Af stud.mag. Sara Green
Flere tanker om (hvad der ikke er) kunst
Af stud.mag. Børge Diderichsen
Da filosofien kom til Odense
Af professor emeritus David Favrholdt
tirsdag den 9. juni 2009
fredag den 29. maj 2009
Seminar om filosofi og litteratur
Det halvårlige seminar i netværk for Fænomenologi, Æstetik og Litteratur (FÆL) afholdes torsdag d. 11. juni kl. 10.00-17.00 i U91 på SDU (se programmet her) - temaet er Velfærd, livsverden og litteratur.
Velfærd står højt på den politiske dagsorden i disse år. Velfærdssamfundet opfattes som en væsentlig del af den nationale identitet, og velfærd nærmest som det højeste gode, men der er også en del kritikere som hævder at velfærdssamfundet i sin nutidige skikkelse er formynderisk, omklamrende eller åndløst. Skal diskussionen føres på meningsfuld vis, må de abstrakte velfærdsideologier imidlertid konkretiseres – og netop litteraturens evne til at konkretisere abstrakte forestillinger fremhæves gerne i den fænomenologiske litteraturteori.
Moderne litteratur rummer både skildringer af velfærdssamfundets udvikling og mere selektive beskrivelser af bestemte miljøer og livsformer og hvorvidt de er forbundet med velfærd. Et centralt fænomenologisk begreb med relevans for denne problemstilling er livsverdenen, men det er omstridt og kræver nærmere afklaring. I hvilket omfang er livsverdenen subjektiv, relativ, kulturelt og sprogligt præget? Omfatter den også værdimæssige og æstetiske kvaliteter? Seminaret skal undersøge hvordan velfærdsideologier konkretiseres, forsvares og kritiseres i litteraturen,og bidrage til forståelsen af livsverdensbegrebet og dets relevans for litterær analyse.
Seminaret er åbent for alle interesserede!
FÆL er et samarbejdsprojekt under Institut for Filosofi, Pædagogik og Religionsstudier og Institut for Litteratur, Kultur og Medier ved SDU.
onsdag den 22. april 2009
A Novel Approach to Quinean Critique of Quantified Modal Logic
LOGIC SEMINAR
with Antti Keskinen
MA, Researcher, Department of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere, Finland
Thursday April 23, 14:15-17:00 in U56, SDU-Odense
& Tuesday April 28, 10:15-12:00 in U48A, SDU-Odense
A Novel Approach to Quinean Critique of Quantified Modal Logic
Willard Van Orman Quine is perhaps the most renowned critic of the logic of necessity and possibility. His discussions of modal logic, in several papers and book passages over the decades, have spurred a wide range of responses. Furthermore, Quine's critical views have been an incentive for new ideas in the philosophy of logic and language. With regard to first-order modal logic, Quine has argued that the very idea of quantification into modal contexts is incoherent. In these lectures, I will give an account of Quine's critique of quantified modal logic, and of some recent attempts at answering this critique. My account is, at least to my knowledge, novel, and is based on drawing a systematic connection between some aspects of Quine's epistemology and his critique of modal logic. In particular, I argue that Quine's epistemological view of objects supports his critique of modal logic, and that this support is also relevant for some attempts at answering Quine's critique.
The connection I argue exists between Quine's critique of modal logic and his epistemology is not explicitly drawn by Quine himself. In my view, once this connection is properly appreciated, it is seen that Quine should not have made the sort of concessions he sometimes seems to make with regard to the intelligibility of quantified modal logic. I also argue that in order to fully reach their target, challenges to Quine's critique of quantified modal logic should involve a challenge to his epistemological conception of objects as well. I will illustrate this point by considering some proposed answers to Quine's critique.
In the course of the lectures, we will also touch on some more technical issues in the semantics of modal logic, especially the intensional-range interpretation of quantification. The basic idea of this semantic approach was proposed already by Rudolf Carnap in his classic work Meaning and Necessity, and Quine argued against Carnap's intensional-range semantics in his writings. We will look critically at Quine's argumentation in this connection as well as at some accounts of the issue in secodary literature.
The lectures form a single thematic whole. Since they are based on work-in-progress, some of the views and arguments presented will be tentative, some perhaps controversial.
THESE LECTURES ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY AN ERASMUS/LIFE LONG LEARNING - SPONSORED TEACHER EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY, EDUCATION AND THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS - PHILOSOPHY, SDU, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY-PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE.
For more information, please see the Blackboard site for Logic Seminar/Logikseminar.
To enroll in the BB site for Logic Seminar/Logikseminar, please contact Cynthia M. Grund
cmgrund@ifpr.sdu.dk.
with Antti Keskinen
MA, Researcher, Department of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere, Finland
Thursday April 23, 14:15-17:00 in U56, SDU-Odense
& Tuesday April 28, 10:15-12:00 in U48A, SDU-Odense
A Novel Approach to Quinean Critique of Quantified Modal Logic
Willard Van Orman Quine is perhaps the most renowned critic of the logic of necessity and possibility. His discussions of modal logic, in several papers and book passages over the decades, have spurred a wide range of responses. Furthermore, Quine's critical views have been an incentive for new ideas in the philosophy of logic and language. With regard to first-order modal logic, Quine has argued that the very idea of quantification into modal contexts is incoherent. In these lectures, I will give an account of Quine's critique of quantified modal logic, and of some recent attempts at answering this critique. My account is, at least to my knowledge, novel, and is based on drawing a systematic connection between some aspects of Quine's epistemology and his critique of modal logic. In particular, I argue that Quine's epistemological view of objects supports his critique of modal logic, and that this support is also relevant for some attempts at answering Quine's critique.
The connection I argue exists between Quine's critique of modal logic and his epistemology is not explicitly drawn by Quine himself. In my view, once this connection is properly appreciated, it is seen that Quine should not have made the sort of concessions he sometimes seems to make with regard to the intelligibility of quantified modal logic. I also argue that in order to fully reach their target, challenges to Quine's critique of quantified modal logic should involve a challenge to his epistemological conception of objects as well. I will illustrate this point by considering some proposed answers to Quine's critique.
In the course of the lectures, we will also touch on some more technical issues in the semantics of modal logic, especially the intensional-range interpretation of quantification. The basic idea of this semantic approach was proposed already by Rudolf Carnap in his classic work Meaning and Necessity, and Quine argued against Carnap's intensional-range semantics in his writings. We will look critically at Quine's argumentation in this connection as well as at some accounts of the issue in secodary literature.
The lectures form a single thematic whole. Since they are based on work-in-progress, some of the views and arguments presented will be tentative, some perhaps controversial.
THESE LECTURES ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY AN ERASMUS/LIFE LONG LEARNING - SPONSORED TEACHER EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY, EDUCATION AND THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS - PHILOSOPHY, SDU, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY-PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE.
For more information, please see the Blackboard site for Logic Seminar/Logikseminar.
To enroll in the BB site for Logic Seminar/Logikseminar, please contact Cynthia M. Grund
cmgrund@ifpr.sdu.dk.
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