[lit-ideas] Grice on Nihilism
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:02:23 -0400 (EDT)
Grice wrote "Vacuous Name" as a tribute to Quine (of all people! and on
all topics!). Grice argues for the sense (if not sensibility) of using stuff
like "Marmaduke Bloggs" to talk about someone who doesn't really exist (he
who climbed Mt Everest on hands and knees).
Similarly, he (Grice) would have a word or two about nothing.
(Formulate Nihilism using Grice's predicate calculus alla
Whitehead/Russell)
Cheers,
Speranza
On Nihilism -- Conference
Staffordshire University, Saturday 20th April Cadman Conference Room,
College Road Programme Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee) 10.15 – 11.30
Nihilism Now and Nietzsche’s Zarathustra Matthew Harris (Staffordshire
University) 11.45 – 13.00 Nihilism and Secularisation LUNCH David Webb
(Staffordshire University) 14.15 – 15.30 Nihilism, Politics and Character
Jean-Michel
Salanskis (University of Paris X, Nanterre) 15.45 – 17.00 Science,
Ontologism and Nihilism Abstracts of the papers are available at:
http://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/ philosophy/ . There is no registration charge.
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