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Jagiellonian University’s co-production (Copernicus Center, The Jagiellonian Doctoral School in the Humanities, Institute of Philosophy).

DESCRIPITION OF THE SECOND PART: In this interview, Prof. Michael Devitt and Agata Paszke discuss key
metaphysical and epistemological themes from Prof. Devitt’s philosophy. The interlocutors
focus on issues connected with commonsense realism about the external world as well as
scientific realism. Prof. Devitt’s naturalistic approach to epistemology is also discussed against
a backdrop of important traditions in the history of philosophy which arose out of the
epistemological turn and the linguistic turn.

NEXT PARTS:

PART III: Biological Essentialism
PART IV: Philosophy of Language: Reference and Meaning
PART V: Linguistics and Experimental Philosophy of Language
PART VI: Semantics vs. Pragmatics

MENTIONED FIGURES IN THE SECOND PART: George Berkeley, René Descartes, Arthur Fine, Clark Glymour,
Nelson Goodman, John Heil, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Kuhn, Larry Laudan, John
Locke, Ernan McMullin, Otto Neurath, Hilary Putnam, Willard Van Orman Quine, Benjamin
Lee Whorf
.

MENTIONED WORKS IN THE SECOND PART :
Descartes, R. (1641) Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ
immortalitas demonstratur. Many translations and editions.
Devitt, M. (1983) ‘Dummett’s Anti-Realism’, The Journal of Philosophy, 80(2): 73-99.
Devitt, M. (1996) Coming to our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Devitt, M. (2001) ‘The Metaphysics of Truth’, in M. P. Lynch (ed.), The Nature of Truth:
Classic and Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 579-611. (Reprinted
as Chapter 8 in Devitt 2010, pp. 155-181.
Devitt, M. (2010) Putting Metaphysics First: Essays on Metaphysics and Epistemology.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Devitt, M. (2020) ‘An Ignored Argument for Scientific Realism’, Filozofia Nauki, 28(2): 5-24,
https://doi.org/10.14394/filnau.2020.....

Prof. Michael Devitt is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center of
The City University of New York. Over the years, Professor Devitt has written extensively on
topics from different branches of philosophy, most notably metaphysics and philosophy of
language. Recently (2023) his book “Biological Essentialism” was published by Oxford
University Press. Professor Devitt is also engaged in various projects in experimental
philosophy.

Ms. Agata Paszke (BA Philosophy) is a graduate philosophy major at the Jagiellonian University
in Cracow. Her interests lie at the intersection of philosophy of language, metaphysics, and
metaphilosophy. Her research concerns the problem of reference of various linguistic
expressions, which she approaches by incorporating methods of traditional armchair
philosophy alongside those of experimental philosophy.