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Speaker Series: Shamik Dasgupta (UC Berkeley)
September 23, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Shamik Dasgupta will present, “Realism and the Absence of Value”.
Much recent metaphysics is built around notions such as naturalness, fundamentality, grounding, dependence, essence, and others besides. I will argue that this kind of metaphysics should be rejected because it succumbs to a “problem of missing value”. Instead, I suggest that we return to a kind of Goodman-esque picture: the world is a structureless blob onto which we project categories that reflect our own interests and concerns.
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