Stockholm Colloquium in Philosophy: Matti Eklund (Uppsala)

Truth and Natural Language Metaphysics

Lecture

Date:

Thursday 13 February 2025

Time:

16.00 – 17.45

Location:

B413

Abstract

Some linguists and philosophers are engaged in a project of doing natural language metaphysics (”natural language ontology”). The underlying idea is that languages can and do have metaphysical assumptions somehow built into them. I discuss some problems with this idea, and some ways of responding to these problems.