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SUMMARY:Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Roberta Ballarin
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DESCRIPTION:Title: On The Genealogy of Modality: The Necessity of Origin 
 and the Origin of Necessity\n \nAbstract: In this paper I lift from Krip
 ke’s Naming and Necessity two alternative interpretations of necessity: 
 essentialism and an historical\, genealogical conception. I argue that K
 ripkean essentialism\, and even more so Kit Fine’s definitional interpre
 tation of essentialism\, shares deep connections with its arch-nemesis\,
  Carnapian conceptualism. Yet we find in Kripke’s work also the seeds of
  an historical interpretation of necessity according to which historical
 \, that is\, causally produced objects are what they are because of thei
 r processes of production. In a reversal of the essentialist paradigm\, 
 origin\, rather than essence\, is the source of modality. I then connect
  Kripke’s focus on origin to Nietzsche’s reflections on the origin of ju
 stice\, and to Quine’s naturalism. Against the common definitional pract
 ices of metaphysicians\, Quine famously rejected meanings and essences a
 nd the analytic and necessary truths dependent on them. He then proceede
 d to naturalize semantics and epistemology by focusing on sensory stimul
 ations and the ordinary psychological processes of knowledge acquisition
 . No corresponding naturalization of essence was proposed. In this paper
 \, I am happy to follow Quine and let essence as well as essential predi
 cation go. Left only with real entities and phenomena and their natural 
 place in history\, I conjecture that origin is what remains in place to 
 naturalize necessity.\n\n
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LOCATION:2.219\, University Place\, Manchester
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