[hopos-g] Reconstructing Carnap Webinar: Matti Eklund (Uppsala University) – Carnap, Metaontology and the Aufbau | March 25, 4:30 PM CET
Caterina Del Sordo
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The next session of the Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series will take place on March 25. Please note that in large parts of North America daylight saving time has already started, while Europe will move the clock only at the end of the month.
Speaker: Matti Eklund (Uppsala University)
Title: Carnap, Metaontology and the Aufbau
Time: March 25, 2026 —4:30 to 6:30pm CET (11.30-13.30 EDT)
Link: meet.google.com/uaq-jqpf-mwr
The abstract is provided below. For further information about the Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series 2026, please consult the following web-page:
https://valep.vc.univie.ac.at/files/External/2026_Reconstructing_Carnap-original.pdf
The series is organized in collaboration with Carnap in Context IV (ÖAW, FWF Grant PAT7905424) and Rudolf Carnap Digital (MCMP, LMU Munich).
Looking forward to seeing you all on March 25!
All the best,
Caterina
Carnap, Metaontology and the Aufbau
By Matti Eklund, Uppsala University
In my talk, I plan to do two things. First, as background, I will go through my view on the later Carnap on metaontology and my reasons for holding this view. Central to my view is the question of what Carnap’s “frameworks” are. Second, I will ask: what light does the Aufbau, a much earlier work, shed on these issues? In his Intellectual Autobiography, Carnap reflects, in connection with the Aufbau, that he held a ”neutral attitude” toward ”the various philosophical forms of language”, and that it is this attitude that remains “e.g., with respect to the contemporary controversy about a nominalist or Platonic language”. I will both discuss the implications of taking Carnap at his word regarding this continuity and problematize what Carnap says regarding his earlier self.
Caterina Del Sordo (she/her)
PhD Philosophy
PhD Basic Sciences and Applications
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