Stupid Like a Fox: The Perils of Meta-Argument

Friday, October 4, 2024
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Allendale Campus, Health Campus
Faculty, Staff, Students

GVSU Philosophy Department Talks presents John Casey (NEIU). Argument often aims at settling matters of the first order—what propositions are true or what course of action is best taken. But argument sometimes aims to settle matters on the second order, like whether another argument was good, bad, or fallacious. So, sometimes we argue about whether people are eating cats, but other times we argue about arguing about whether people are eating cats. We can call the second of these “Meta-arguments.” What’s interesting is that the rules for first-order arguments sometimes don’t seem to apply to meta-arguments. Some meta-arguments, in fact, seem to consist in explicitly violating the rules of first order argument. That situation is, to borrow a phrase, weird.

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MAK-BL-110, Allendale Campus

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This event was added to the calendar by Kristen Krueger-Corrado (kruegekr@gvsu.edu) on Monday, September 30, 2024 and was last updated on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 8:28 a.m.