Dear all, The next meeting of the Serious Metaphysics Group will be on next Thursday (the 22nd). Alex Moran will be speaking on 'Dion's Foot and Aristotle's Hand: A New Solution to the Paradox of Decrease'(abstract below). We'll meet from 1:00 - 2:30pm in the Graduate Common Room in the Philosophy Faculty (please note the change of venue).
Hope to see you there, Georgie Dion's Foot and Aristotle's Hand: A New Solution to the Paradox of Decrease The paradox of decrease arises because it seems possible for an object to undergo mereological change and thereby become spatially coincident with one of its large proper parts. The problem is that this conflicts with the intuition that no two material objects can occupy precisely the same region of space at the same time. In this talk,I outline a new solution that draws upon the quasi-monistic idea that the large proper parts of material substances are ontologically dependent on their proper wholes. I also show how this new solution simultaneously provides us with a way to handle a related paradox, namely the paradox of increase. -- Georgie Statham PhD Candidate Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
