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Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Rob Trueman (University of York)

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Dates:27 October 2021
Times:15:15 - 16:50
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
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This seminar will be taking place on campus, and in person, at Roscoe 2.3. If you are unable to come to campus, a zoom option will be available - please contact Dr Stephen Ingram to request the relevant zoom info.

Title

  • A Fictionalist Theory of Universals

Abstract

  • Universals are putative objects like wisdom, morality, redness, etc. Although we believe in properties (which, we argue, are not a kind of object), we do not believe in universals. However, a number of ordinary, natural language constructions seem to commit us to their existence. In this paper, we provide a fictionalist theory of universals, which allows us to speak as if universals existed, whilst denying that any really do.

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