[PhilPhys] Fwd: (SILFS-L) Ofer Gal, Università di Sydney, a Roma Tre

[Mauro Dorato]

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Mercoledí 13 dicembre, alle ore 14:00,

presso la facoltà di filosofia di Roma Tre (aula 9), via Ostiense 234,

il Prof. Ofer Gal, Università di Sydney, terrà un talk dal titolo:  The
Real Issue

*Abstract*
This paper studies the historical peculiarities of the modern ‘Scientific
Realism Debate’ and the metaphysical assumptions grounding it in its
current form.  It argues that all positions in the current debate cannot be
made sense of without the assumption of an ideal and privileged point of
view, external to *both*science and ‘the real things’, from which *both* can
be observed and compared.  It explains why this is essentially an idealist
assumption; and why, as foundations for epistemological discussion, it is
in and of itself incoherent.  It demonstrates that this confusion did not
mar the historical versions of the debate: neither the mediaeval
discussions of divine knowledge nor 17th century scientific controversies
assumed such a ‘God’s eye point of view’.  It also argues for a historicist
position: that whereas, in those early modern controversies, anti-realism
was a genuine form of skepticism, modern anti-realism is not, and cannot
be, a skeptical position.  The main realist arguments, however, are aimed
against the skeptic, and are therefore off-target.

info: dorato at uniroma3.it


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debent, quaedam torquent cum omnino non debeant (Seneca, Liber II, Epistula
XIII)
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profecit: numquam erit solus. Scito esse hunc amicum omnibus. Vale. (liber
1, epistula 6
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intelligere" (Baruch Spinoza)
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