Greetings all, This coming Monday, August 11, 1.00-2.30 in the philosophy common room we have Katalin Farkas, Central European University, Budapest talking to us about:
“The dark doctrine of contingent identity” In the 1980 Preface to Naming and Necessity, Kripke relates how little sympathy he had felt for the “dark doctrine of a relation of 'contingent identity'". His arguments based on Leibniz's Law and on the phenomena of rigid designators are supposed to undermine all reasons to believe that identity can be contingent. In this talk I would like to express some doubts about Kripke's arguments, and reconsider the question of whether we can make sense of contingent identity. see you all there, 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 9036 9663 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]/
