Rethinking Conceptual Ideology

In this presentation, I propose a way to (re)interpret conceptualist ideology. Especially, I consider the following two notions: (i) reality as amorphous lump; (ii) existence as a variable concept. For both, the core question is that such notions are somewhat inscrutable. However, there is a tension: those allegedly unintelligible notions are well-understood within (meta-) ontological debates. I try to give a semantic framework where this tension might be resolved. I proceed as follows. In §2, 3, I introduce our framework, based on Conventionalist semantics by Iris Einheuser. Then first, in §4, I consider the amorphous world ideology, our first subject. And in §5, I consider the recent proposal that quantifier variance is just domain variance. In §6, I conclude.

Aug 4, 2024 1:00 PM — 3:00 PM

XXV World Congress of Philosophy

Sapienza University

5 Piazzale Aldo Moro, Rome, 00185