Beskrivning
Recently there has been a surge of interest in the so-called ‘SomervilleSchool’—a group of Oxford-based philosophers including G. E. M. Anscombe, Iris
Murdoch, Mary Midgley and Philippa Foot active from the early 1950’s and
onwards. What has been largely overlooked in this recent surge of scholarship,
however, is the group’s reliance on an understanding of metaphysics as a
descriptive-normative historical enterprise and the distinct form of historical, or
genealogical, argumentation that this understanding brings to the writings of the
group. In this talk I provide a characterisation of this shared understanding of
metaphysics as a historical science, explain how it both threatens a commonly
accepted narrative concerning the re-emergence of metaphysics in analytic
philosophy and gives rise to a distinct form of historical arguments. I also exemplify
these more abstract historiographical and argumentative points by tracking and
explicating these metaphysical concerns and their adjacent argumentative structures
in a number of prominent writings of members of the Somerville School.
Period | 2024 okt. 11 |
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Evenemangstitel | Idehistoria på gång 2024 |
Typ av evenemang | Konferens |
Plats | Umeå, SverigeVisa på karta |
Omfattning | Nationell |
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- Idé- och lärdomshistoria
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- The Somerville Group and (the Re-emergence of) Metaphysics 20241009
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