Held on Tuesday, February 25, 2003



Effect of Working Ontology on Some Conceptual Puzzles


Herbert FJ Müller (Psychiatry, Douglas Hospital, McGill University)


Abstract

This talk examines the effects of a change from traditional to working ontology on some conceptual problems that are under discussion in the literature: the liar paradox, the announced surprise paradox, the measurement problem, and the uncertainty relation. Some aspects of these puzzles appear to be by-products of the use of traditional ontology - as it is implied, for instance, in naïve realism - where conceptual tools have a (mind-independent) life of their own. Considering what people can actually do with the conceptual tools they have (in working ontology) facilitates the access to these puzzles.

Discussants: Tyler Marghetis, Brandon Moores, Olivier Paschke, and Vesselin Petkov (all of Concordia University)


Note : The paper is posted for discussion in the Karl Jaspers Forum at: http://www.douglashospital.qc.ca/fdg/kjf/57-TAMUL.htm

Date:Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Time: 3:45 PM
Place: Concordia University (Building H), 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., 4th Floor (Metro station Guy-Concordia, exit Guy Street)
Room: H-411
Contact: (514) 848-2595



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