I would like to cordially invite you to the next APSE (Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology) talk! The speaker will be Haiqiang Dai (Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China) and the talk will happen ONLINE on June 13th, 2024 from 15:00 - 17:00. Please find the abstract & link below!
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Title: Rule-Skepticism and Primitive Normativity

Abstract:

In his Wittgenstein on Rules and Private language, Saul Kripke established a rule-skepticism, according to which any strategy to respond to it needs to provide facts determining that a subject is, e.g., following the rule of addition rather than that of quaddition. In this talk, I intend to propose a primitive-normative strategy to address the rule-skepticism. Firstly, I will reconstruct the skeptical argument, pointing out that the core issue is to solve the problem of rule-deviation. Then, an account of primitive normativity is proposed, based on the analysis of what is "seeming right" and what is "seeming wrong", to answer the deviation problem about rules. Finally, I will show that under my account, the primitive normativity and the public normativity are intrinsically interrelated, which can provide the source and foundation for the general phenomenon of normativity. This strategy relies on the regularity and primitive-normative attitude constructed by the subject in training, and it can satisfy both the factual and the normative conditions as required by the Kripkean skeptics.

Theme: Rule-Skepticism and Primitive Normativity

Link: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/69176693894?pwd=QYKntppjebxXIxI5d7UD1hm0mFNdCB.1
Code: APSE

Time: 15:00-17:00, June 13th, 2024

Best wishes,
Xinxin Gu
(via Ella Berger)