Mittwoch, 02. Dezember 2020, 17:00 - 19:00 iCal
Online: 3. Arthur Pap Vorlesung
3rd Arthur Pap-Lecture, December 2nd, 2020
Returns of Modality: Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Arthur Pap
Sanford Shieh
Zusammen mit Vienna Circle Society/Togehter with Vienna Circle Society
Institut Wiener Kreis
Vortrag
Abstract
According to a popular myth, modality was unjustly banished from analytic philosophy by the Vienna Circle on empiricist grounds and not restored to its rightful central place until Kripke. In this talk I explore some aspects of the philosophical historical realities occluded by this myth. After touching briefly on Frege's and Russell's opposition to modality on entirely non-empiricist bases, I outline Wittgenstein's philosophical path to a rejoinder to Frege and Russell in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Starting from criticism of Russell's multiple-relation theory of judgment, Wittgenstein eventually arrived, in the Tractatus, at an account of propositions in terms of picturing that requires an ineliminable primitive notion of possibility. In the second part of the talk I sketch the development of relativized, pragmatic accounts of apriority, analyticity, and necessity by Reichenbach and Carnap. I conclude by presenting Arthur Pap's argument for the absolute necessity of logic, circumscribing the limitations of the pragmatic logical empiricist theory of modality.
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Sanford Shieh is Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. He works in the philosophies of logic, mathematics, and modality through their histories in the analytical traditions of philosophy. For the past decade, he has been engaged in a philosophical history of modality and logic in analytic philosophy, an outline of which appears as the chapter on modality in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy. The first result of this project is a monograph, Necessity Lost. He is also editor, with Juliet Floyd, of Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy.
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Veranstalter
Institut Wiener Kreis gemeinsam mit Wiener Kreis Gesellschaft
Kontakt
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Institut Wiener Kreis
+431427746501
sabine.koch@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Freitag, 27. November 2020, 12:42
Letzte Änderung am Dienstag, 15. Dezember 2020, 01:48