Dear all, Just a reminder that at this week's meeting of the Moral Sciences Club on Tuesday 24th Feb, Shyane Siriwardena (Cambridge) will be giving a talk entitled 'The Agency Theory of Causation: Unsound or Incomplete' (abstract below). The talk will be in Newnham college's Sidgwick Hall, from 2.30-4.15 pm.
If you'd like to join us for dinner with Shyane in the evening, please email Ali Boyle ([email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>) by midday on Monday. Best wishes, Ali Boyle and Mat Simpson The agency theory of causation, as defended by Huw Price, bills itself as a theory that explicates the implicit use-rules for our concept of causation. After presenting the theory as it appears in the literature, I will demonstrate that there are a great many uses of our concept of causation that this theory cannot accommodate. In particular, I will show that the theory is ill-equipped to account for our use of the concept of causation in describing token events. From this I will conclude that defenders of the agency theory are faced with a dilemma: either hold fast to a theory that is unsound, or else concede that said theory is severely incomplete in a way not previously acknowledged. -- -- Ali Boyle and Matthew Simpson Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ 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.
