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</head><body class="body"><span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InformAction"><span style="display:none" itemprop="about" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing/Notification"><meta itemprop="description" content="Notification"/></span><span itemprop="object" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event"><meta itemprop="eventStatus" content="http://schema.org/EventScheduled"/><span itemprop="publisher" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Google Calendar"/></span><meta itemprop="eventId/googleCalendar" content="1enfepdtd049ialgb1503sadv0"/><span style="display: none; font-size: 1px; color: #fff; line-height: 1px; height: 0; max-height: 0; width: 0; max-width: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden;" itemprop="name">Elena Gordon, "Claude Buffier: Metaphysics within the bounds of Common Sense"</span><meta itemprop="url" content="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r?eid=MWVuZmVwZHRkMDQ5aWFsZ2IxNTAzc2FkdjAgMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw&es=1"/><span aria-hidden="true"><time itemprop="startDate" datetime="20220831T053000Z"></time><time itemprop="endDate" datetime="20220831T070000Z"></time></span><div style="display: none; font-size: 1px; color: #fff; line-height: 1px; height: 0; max-height: 0; width: 0; max-width: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden;">Philosophy Seminar RoomSimulcast via Zoom :https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87937027507Claude Buffier is an almost entirely forgotten figure in the history of philosophy. However, during the time at which</div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" align="center" style="width:100%;" class="body-container"><tbody><tr><td style="" class="" align="left"><!--[if mso | IE]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tr><td height="16" style="height:16px;"><![endif]--><div style="height:16px;" aria-hidden="true"> </div><!--[if mso | IE]></td></tr></table><![endif]--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" align="center" style="width:100%;" class=""><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: #e8f0fe;;color: #1a73e8;padding: 12px 32px; border-radius: 8px;font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;text-align: left;" class="info-bar-inner"><span style="font-weight: 700;">You have an upcoming event</span></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if mso | IE]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tr><td height="12" style="height:12px;"><![endif]--><div style="height:12px;" aria-hidden="true"> </div><!--[if mso | IE]></td></tr></table><![endif]--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" align="center" style="width:100%;" class=""><tbody><tr><td style="border: solid 1px #dadce0; border-radius: 8px; direction: rtl; font-size: 0; padding: 24px 32px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" class="main-container-inner"><!--[if mso | IE]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tr><![endif]--><div class="" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 100%;overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%" class="main-column-table-ltr" style="padding-right: 32px; padding-left: 0;;table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td class="main-column-td" style="padding:0; vertical-align:top;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%" style="table-layout: fixed;"><tr><td style="font-size: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;;padding-bottom:2px;"><div style="font-family: 'Google Sans', Roboto, sans-serif;font-weight: 400; font-size: 22px; line-height: 28px;color: #3c4043; text-decoration: none;" class="primary-text" role="presentation"><span itemprop="name">Elena Gordon, "Claude Buffier: Metaphysics within the bounds of Common Sense"</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;;padding-bottom:24px;"><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;color: #3c4043; text-decoration: none;" class="primary-text" role="presentation"><span aria-hidden="true"><time itemprop="startDate" datetime="20220831T053000Z"></time><time itemprop="endDate" datetime="20220831T070000Z"></time></span><span>Wednesday 31 Aug 2022 ⋅ 15:30 – 17:00 (Eastern Australia Time - Sydney)</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;;padding-bottom:24px;"><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;color: #3c4043; text-decoration: none;" class="primary-text" role="presentation"><span><br><p>Philosophy Seminar Room</p><p>Simulcast via Zoom :<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wChbCq71mwfODDQpoIQDurD?domain=google.com" target="_blank">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87937027507</a></p><p>Claude Buffier is an almost entirely forgotten figure in the history of philosophy. However, during the time at which he lived (1661-1737) he was a well-known Jesuit philosopher, and educationist, whose work received considerable attention and held considerable influence. Indeed, scholars interested in the revival of Buffier’s work have noted that aspects of his work had considerable influence on figures such as Hume, Voltaire, Kant, and Reid. In this paper, I focus on unpacking Buffier’s metaphysics and the relationship it has with his common sense philosophy. In <i>La Traite, </i>Buffier argues that there are several first truths of common sense for which we should easily discern collective agreement. He includes, for example, the fact that there are other beings in the world besides me as an obvious and undeniable first truth of common sense. However, he points out that some human beings routinely abandon common sense and fail to see (or claim to fail to see) that the first truths are in fact true. Buffier includes madmen, fools, children and <i>philosophers </i>among those who do so. We can pardon the mad since they cannot make proper use of reason; we can pardon children, because they have not reached the age and use of reason and therefore have not accrued the experience necessary to discerning even the most basic information delivered by the senses. But neither of these excuses are available to philosophers since they are neither mad nor juvenile. So, one might ask, why is it so difficult for philosophers to cultivate common sense? And relatedly, what exactly is it about philosophy that encourages scepticism about things that only the mad or the very young would question? In answering these questions, I show that for Buffier, the principal reason philosophers have struggled to accept the first truths of common sense is because they operate with a false (but common) conception of metaphysics. For Buffier, true metaphysics is not a science concerned with identifying the fundamental nature of reality beyond that which we can observe, nor should it be. In fact, for him, the pursuit of certainty about what lies beyond the reach of human perception is what leads philosophers to reject the first truths of common sense. To rectify this situation, Buffier argues that we must renew our understanding of metaphysics and reclaim it from those philosophers who have abused it. By sharpening our conception of metaphysics, for Buffier, we can see clearly both why philosophers have struggled to heed the dictates of common sense, and why there is a need to make common sense the basis of our philosophy. </p></span><meta itemprop="description" content="Philosophy Seminar RoomSimulcast via Zoom :https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87937027507Claude Buffier is an almost entirely forgotten figure in the history of philosophy. However, during the time at which he lived (1661-1737)&nbsp;he was a well-known Jesuit philosopher, and educationist, whose work received considerable attention and held considerable influence. Indeed, scholars interested in the revival of Buffier’s work have noted that aspects of his work had considerable influence on figures such as Hume, Voltaire, Kant, and Reid. In this paper, I focus on unpacking Buffier’s metaphysics and the relationship it has with his common sense philosophy. In&nbsp;La Traite,&nbsp;Buffier argues that there are several first truths of common sense for which we should easily discern collective agreement. He includes, for example, the fact that there are other beings in the world besides me as an obvious and undeniable first truth of common sense. However, he points out that some human beings routinely abandon common sense and fail to see (or claim to fail to see) that the first truths are in fact true. Buffier includes madmen, fools, children and&nbsp;philosophers&nbsp;among those who do so. We can pardon the mad since they cannot make proper use of reason; we can pardon children, because they have not reached the age and use of reason and therefore have not accrued the experience necessary to discerning even the most basic information delivered by the senses. But neither of these excuses are available to philosophers since they are neither mad nor juvenile. So, one might ask, why is it so difficult for philosophers to cultivate common sense? And relatedly, what exactly is it about philosophy that encourages scepticism about things that only the mad or the very young would question? In answering these questions, I show that for Buffier, the principal reason philosophers have struggled to accept the first truths of common sense is because they operate with a false (but common) conception of metaphysics. For Buffier, true metaphysics is not a science concerned with identifying the fundamental nature of reality beyond that which we can observe, nor should it be. In fact, for him, the pursuit of certainty about what lies beyond the reach of human perception is what leads philosophers to reject the first truths of common sense. To rectify this situation, Buffier argues that we must renew our understanding of metaphysics and reclaim it from those philosophers who have abused it. By sharpening our conception of metaphysics, for Buffier, we can see clearly both why philosophers have struggled to heed the dictates of common sense, and why there is a need to make common sense the basis of our philosophy.&nbsp;"/></div></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;;padding-bottom:24px;"><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;color: #3c4043; text-decoration: none;" class="primary-text" role="presentation"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"><tr><td><h2 class="primary-text" style="font-size: 14px;color: #3c4043; text-decoration: none;font-weight: 700;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;margin: 0; padding: 0;">Guests</h2></td></tr></table><div style="padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left;;color: #3c4042;"></div><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9gfSCr81nytAppq5GsymHR7?domain=calendar.google.com" style="display: inline-block;;color: #1a73e8; text-decoration: none;font-weight: 700;" target="_blank" class="accent-text underline-on-hover">View all event details</a></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><!--[if mso | IE]></tr></table><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" align="center" style="width:100%;" class=""><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;;padding:4px 12px;" class="" align="left"><div class="secondary-text" style="color: #70757a; text-decoration: none;font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: left;"><p>Invitation from <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pn_WCoV1kpfXMMn70C10rjt?domain=calendar.google.com/" class="accent-text underline-on-hover" style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;;color: #1a73e8; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google Calendar</a></p><p>You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Calendar notifications. 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