This Monday's current projects will be Luca Moretti to talk to us about "The paradox of minimal entities"
Abstract Minimal entities are those that fall under minimal notions - that is, notions defined in terms of only platitudinous principles (e.g. "S iff and it is a fact that S"). They have been investigated by - among others - Schiffer, Thomasson, Hofweber. Why do we have terms referring to minimal entities in our language? Why are we committed to the existence of minimal entities? (Are we?) What the hell are they? Do they exist for real - like, plausibly, cats, electrons, you and me - or are they mere linguistic projections? This is the stuff I deal with. I already wrote a bit about this topic in my "On creeping minimalism and the nature of minimal entities". (See above all Sect. 2.3 and Sect. 4). You can download the paper at: http://lucamoretti.org/Creeping%20Minimalism.pdf Dr. Kristie Miller Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (work) 02 93569663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
