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SUMMARY:What pluralism could be and might do - Tim Button (Faculty of Phil
 osophy)
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CONTACT:Helen Curry
DESCRIPTION:Plenty of philosophers of science now explicitly advocate some
  form of _pluralism_. Sometimes this is a _methodological_ pluralism: we s
 hould consider lots of different problems\, and tackle them using many dif
 ferent approaches and theoretical frameworks. That sounds good. But someti
 mes this is _ontological pluralism_: what exists is (somehow) relative to 
 our approaches and frameworks. This is sometimes invoked to debunk various
  metaphysical projects\, which are presumed to have framework-independent 
 ambitions. I have good news and bad news for ontological pluralists with s
 uch motivations. The bad news is that ontological pluralism is incoherent.
  The good news is that there is a coherent form of pluralism that will do 
 just as well at debunking metaphysics.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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