Dear all, This Wednesday at the HPS Philosophy Workshop, Emily Thomas will be giving a talk entitled, "The equivocation objection to priority monism". For an abstract, see below.
As usual, the meeting is between 1-2pm, in HPS on Free School Lane. After the formal proceedings, however, the discussion with the speaker will continue in Fitzbillies for those who wish to continue with the debate. Best wishes, Emily ABSTRACT: Fundamentality theorists may agree that the same objects exist - such as tables, mountains, electrons and people - but they may also disagree as to which of these entities are ontologically fundamental. In a number of recent papers, Jonathan Schaffer has argued for 'priority monism', a doctrine which holds that the uppermost mereological whole is fundamental and all of its mereological parts are ontologically dependent, derivative entities. I will show that Schaffer's central argument masks a crucial equivocation - between 'Aristotelian unities' and 'mereological wholes' - that, when uncovered, seriously weakens the case for priority monism. _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are now archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
