Two Routes to (and from) Metaphysical Skepticism

This colloquium talk is planned as an online event on Zoom.

Abstract

I consider and offer replies to lines of thought in support of some form of metaphysical skepticism, according to which metaphysical claims---e.g., the claim that universals serve as the basis for resemblance between objects, or that sets necessarily exist---are meaningless, false, epistemically inaccessible, or at best pragmatically accepted.