'Correspondence Pluralism'

Gila Sher (University of California, San Diego)

The Virtual International Consortium for Truth Research (VICTR) is pleased to announce the second VICTR talk for this semester, which is from Gila Sher (UCSD), entitled 'Correspondence Pluralism'.   

The session will be on Zoom on Monday March 25, 12:00pm Eastern US time / 9:00am Pacific US time / 16:00 UTC / 17:00 CET / 12:00am China Standard Time (on Mar 26) / 3:00am (on Mar 26) Sydney   

Abstract  In this talk I present a pluralist view of truth of a special kind: correspondence-pluralism. Correspondence-pluralism is the view that to fulfill its function in knowledge, truth requires correspondence principles rather than mere coherence, pragmatist, or deflationist principles. But these correspondence principles do not need to be the naive principles of traditional correspondence: copy, mirror image, direct isomorphism. Furthermore, the patterns of correspondence may vary, in certain disciplined ways, from one field of knowledge to another. This combination of correspondence and pluralism enables us to set high standards of truth for all fields of knowledge while giving us sufficient flexibility to adjust these standards to the special conditions of different fields. In so doing, we acquire new tools for addressing old as well as new questions: Is there correspondence-truth in mathematics? In ethics? Correspondence with what? What patterns of correspondence?

 The talk is divided into four parts: (1) Why correspondence and what kind of correspondence? (2) Why pluralism and what kind of pluralism? (3) What are the patterns of correspondence in mathematics and ethics? (4) How does correspondence-pluralism avoid criticisms of other pluralisms?

You can register for this talk by following this link, and after registration you will receive the meeting information: https://utica-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qdOutrDsoHdzCcd6FUP5_8w39WcLHHqb_