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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Jocelyn Benoist\, Sorbonne)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our first Spring 2025 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Jocelyn Benoist\, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He works in the areas of metaphysics\, philosophy of language\, and philosophy of mind and is the author of\, most recently\, Toward a Contextual Realism (Harvard University Press\, 2021). He is also a recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize. \nTalk Title\nA Plea for Reality \nTalk Abstract\n\nI’d like to open a discussion on the concept of reality. I will argue against its dismissal by some postmodern thought. I will contend that while “reality” can be an uncomfortable concept\, we cannot do without it. I will distinguish the usage of “reality” as a general concept and as applied in specific instances (e.g.\, “a real duck”). I will criticize Markus Gabriel’s “New Realism\,” which focuses on “existence” rather than “reality\,” and by so doing possibly blurs crucial ontological lines. From Gabriel’s criticism of the concept of reality I will return to Austin’s work on the adjective “real” that emphasizes the contextual relativity of this concept to a particular class of things. Ultimately\, I will show the limits of such an approach and argue that the question of reality does not come down to the mere belonging of something to a definite class of things. Thus\, I will argue for the metaphysical irreducibility of this notion.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-jocelyn-benoist-sorbonne/
LOCATION:Centre for Ethics\, 200 Larkin\, 15 Devonshire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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