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Issuing Citations is public-facing event series aimed at fostering research connections, nurturing inchoate projects, and providing an organizational catalyst for future conferences and publications. It's a space for graduate students and early career faculty alike to co-present, interact, and form connections across disciplinary lines.
January’s event will feature 2 talks!:
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Regularity theories, most famously articulated by David Hume, deny the adage: “causation is not correlation.” In “Cement of the Universe,” J.L. Mackie built on Hume’s description to ground causality as an “insufficient but non-redundant part of an unnecessary but sufficient condition.” Juliana argues that coincidences contain more capacity for structure than previously shown and make plain how coincidences can yield to more thoroughgoing causal inference, analogous to graphical models. This account includes transitive causal chains, hypothetical reasoning, predicting outcomes of interventions, differentiating between chains and common causes, and discovering unobserved common causes.
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Lucas stages a connection between metaphysical discourse and the theoretical word. He argues that metaphysics is the reflexive self-affirmation of theoreticity as such—and that, this being the case, there exists a specific and urgent vocation of metaphysics vis-à-vis the human possibility for uttering a word of truth, for theoreticity. He sheds light on the concept of "theory" by resituating it within its originating metaphorical context. Then, he speaks about theoreticity-in-itself, and defines metaphysical discourse as theoreticity-for-itself. He deploys the primary theorem of metaphysics: "theoreticity is," and turns in his claims to the paradoxes involved in determining this affirmation. He resolves these paradoxes by exhibiting the real fragility of theoreticity. Lastly, he shows how, in light of the contingent subtraction of theoreticity, metaphysical discourse can be understood as the formal conservator of the theoretical word.
Beatrice Institute will provide apps and the first round of drinks for attendees, after which interlocutors are on their own.
Tip your bartenders, chase the rabbit, and see you on Thursday, January 15th!