Prochaine séance du séminaire “Le réalisme en questions”: Markus Gabriel (28 mars 2015)

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne (PhiCo)

Composante  « Expérience & Connaissance » (EXeCO)

Séminaire de recherche 2014-2015 coordonné par Jocelyn Benoist : Le réalisme en questions

Centre Sorbonne, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Escalier C, 1er étage couloir droite, Salle Lalande

Samedi 28 mars 2015, 10h30-12h30 :

Markus Gabriel (Université de Bonn) : Réalisme ontologique

Résumé: In my paper, I will first sketch some of the arguments underpinning the view that to exist is to belong to a domain of objects. In this context, I will introduce the notion of a “field of sense,” which serves the function of avoiding a set-theoretic, purely extentionalist account of domains of objects in terms of domains of (standard) quantification. I argue that there really are irreducibly many fields of sense (ontological pluralism). One might believe that this plurality is somehow due to conceptual activities carving reality/the world up in different ways. Yet, this threatens to amount to an untenable form of ontological antirealism according to which the very referent of the concept of existence (namely: existence) is only fully intelligible if we give an account of our use of that very concept. Against this idea I present a realist version of ontological pluralism, an intermediate position between metaphysical realism (as described and attacked by Hilary Putnam, among many others) and ontological antirealism paradigmatically represented by Kant and Frege.

Pierre Fasula

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