Speaker: Martin Lipman (Leiden)
Title: In Defense of Fragmentalism
Date:
Time:
16:00
- 17:30
Location: SP107 F1.15 (ILLC Seminar Room)
This talk presents a fragmentalist view, close to Fine’s original formulation. I briefly discuss some of my own broader methodological motivation behind this approach. I then discuss two worries. The first is the worry that fragmentalism requires a notion of reality that we cannot truly make sense of, in particular because it has to be non-factive. The second worry is that fragmentalism undermines our ability to rationalize our actions in terms of our beliefs. Both worries, I argue, call for a certain conception of what is to adopt a standpoint in our theoretical conception of the world.