Greetings all, This coming Monday, Sept 1 1.00-2.30 in the philosophy common room Ali Navabi will talk to us "On spurious egocentricity"
Abstract The subjectivity or egocentricity of tense is a theme discussed in passing by McTaggart in The Nature of Existence and advocated by old B-theorists of time such as Russell and Ayer.In this talk I, show how the egocentricity of tense is implied by the token reflexive analysis of tense and how it amounts to an a priori argument against the objectivity of becoming. I then attempt to use Mctaggart's observation to construct a reductio against egocentricity of tense by invoking Kaplan's distinction of utterance and sentence-in-context. See you 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]/
