Dear all, A reminder that today SM will feature Professor John Marenbon speaking on 'Peter Abelard's Metaphysics'(abstract below).
We will meet at 4:30pm in the Philosophy Faculty Board Room, and the session will last an hour and a half. Best, Emily Thomas ________________________________ ABSTRACT - 'Peter Abelard's Metaphysics' Abelard is well known as a nominalist, but did he extend his ontological parsimony beyond denying that there are real universals? I shall argue that he began with a lavish array of tropes, but that he went on to trim its luxuriance in some respects. He also has a role for various sorts of non-things - the content of mental images, status (the status of man is being-a-man) and the dicta (what is said by) sentences (rather like propositions in the contemporary sense). Is he trying to have his ontological cake and eat it? _____________________________________________________ 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 archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
