Neo-pragmatism is a recent attempt to demystify truth and related notions such as representation and fact. \; One part of the program involves avoiding reliance on any robust notion of truth altogether\, and substituting another explanation of our talk about truth. \; Another part of the program appeals to usefulness in order to explain how moral talk\, psychological talk\, everyday object talk\, and so on\, emerged. \; Neo-pragmatism is distinct from traditional pragmatism in that it does not seek an analysis of truth\, reference\, or representation in terms of usefulness\, since it does not regard truth as a property or reference or representation as relations.
\nThe aim of the conference is to see how neo-pragmatism\, which is typically visible only in high-level discussion of philosophical methodology or meta-metaphysics\, works "in the trenches" of first-order areas of philosophy. \; We will descend into various trenches: metaethics\, philosphy of science\, philosophy of psychology\, philosophy of color\, and so on. \; The aim is to make neo-pragmatism visible in those areas\, where the representationalist paradigm is currently the default.
\nRegistration for the conference is free\, but please send an email to Joshua Gert at jngert@wm.edu.
\nThis conference is made possible by the generous contributions of Teresa Thompson ('67) and Michael Foradas ('78).
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