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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">ANDY HAMILTON:
</span><span style="color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“Analytic versus synthetic philosophy: The case for conceptual holism”</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">WHEN: Wednesday, Dec 14, 3pm-4pm. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">WHERE: Building 19, Room 1093 (first floor), University of Wollongong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We will be going for drinks at the Uni Bar straight after the talk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">ABSTRACT:</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> A claim of conceptual holism between two concepts says that one cannot acquire one without acquiring the other, nor manifest understanding of one without manifesting
understanding of the other. Conceptual holisms contrast with one-way presupposition, such as that between "photograph" and "picture". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">A philosophically uninteresting holism is that between "monarch" and "subject", which is analytic. Genuinely conceptual holisms include memory and personal identity;
proprioception and bodily individuation; my body and objectivity concepts; belief and assertion; concept and object; intention and action; natural law and causation; the right and the good; art and the aesthetic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Conceptual holisms give rise to <i>Euthyphro</i>-type paradoxes. The original paradox asks – roughly – whether God commands something because it is good, or is
something good because God commands it. My answer is a distinctive <i>no-priority resolution</i> – converting the dilemma, effectively, into a trilemma. The neglected disjunct claims a conceptual holism between God and goodness. Thus the traditional objection
to the divine command interpretation, that God might will something that is by secular standards morally outrageous, could not arise. So <i><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">Euthyphro</span></i><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">-type paradoxes can be used
to undermine the standard assumption of circularity objections, that one of the pair of concepts in question must be more fundamental. </span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Conceptual holisms illustrate what I call synthetic philosophy. </span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">At
least since Quine's attack on analyticity, Analytic philosophers have become </span><span style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">paranoid about circularity. But philosophy involves synthesis as well as analysis, and deals in benign
as opposed to vicious circularities. I defend these views through examination of two conceptual holisms, that of art and the aesthetic, and that of memory and personal identity. </span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">BIO:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Andy Hamilton teaches Philosophy at Durham University, specialising in aesthetics, philosophy of mind, political philosophy and history
of 19th and 20th century philosophy, especially Wittgenstein. His monographs are <i>Aesthetics and Music</i> (Continuum, 2007), <i>The Self in Question: Memory, the Body and Self-Consciousness</i> (Palgrave, 2013), and <i>Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to
Wittgenstein and On Certainty</i> (Routledge 2014). </span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Talia Morag<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Lecturer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Head of Postgraduate Studies; Honours Coordinator
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Liberal Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Building 19, room 1092<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Wollongong | NSW 2522<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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