Dear all, Please join us for the CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Wednesday 4th December 1-2:30pm in HPS Seminar Room 2. Kerry McKenzie (Western Ontario) will give a talk entitled "The Plurality of Priority". The abstract is below. Best wishes, Christopher Abstract: My talk will focus on how to think about the concept of ontological priority from a broadly naturalistic perspective. After walking us through some priority claims made by philosophers of physics, I will argue that we are using a plurality of priority relations to express our fundamentality claims. After gesturing at why I think this plurality is problematic, I'll suggest that we revise how we talk about priority and make a couple of prescriptions for doing so. What is noteworthy is that the conception of priority we thereby arrive at looks a lot like that defended in contemporary analytic metaphysics. The significance of this for the much-discussed antagonism between philosophy of physics and analytic metaphysics is a question I'll leave on the table. -- Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge Personal Website: www.chrisclarke.eu <http://www.chrisclarke.eu/index.html> Project Website: www.humannature.hps.cam.ac.uk
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