Dear all, A reminder that the last Serious Metaphysics meeting of this academic year will take place tomorrow (May 30th). The session will feature the creator of our group, Prof. Hugh Mellor, speaking on "Nature's Joints: a Realistic Defence of Natural Properties" - abstract below. As usual we'll be meeting at 4:30pm in the Philosophy Faculty Board Room.
This session will be my last as convener of the group; it's been a pleasure. If you have any speaker suggestions for next year, please direct them to Lukas Skiba (lps24), who will be taking over. Best, Emily ______________________________ ABSTRACT: 'Nature's Joints: a Realistic Defence of Natural Properties' 'In this talk I attack two contrary views. One denies that nature has joints, taking the properties we call natural to be merely artefacts of our theories. The other accepts real natural properties but takes their naturalness to come by degrees. I argue that both views are wrong: nature has real joints, i.e. there are real natural properties, independent of our theories; and the naturalness of these properties no more comes by degrees than does the naturalness of the things that have them.' _____________________________________________________ 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
