Greetings all,
This year's current projects seminar series will start up again on
Monday Feb 16. As always, seminars are in the philosophy common room,
1.00-2.30.
We now have a new website with the program for the first semester's
papers, where abstracts and titles will be added when they become
available and where the email addresses of speakers can be located
for those interested in getting in touch directly. You can check it
out at:
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Current%
20Projects%202009.html
Please see the website if you have any queries, and contact me if the
info you want is not there.
Just a quick reminder about the format:
Papers are 35 minutes long with 55 minutes discussion. The aim is to
keep papers short and punchy and have plenty of time for discussion.
So from 2009 we will be implementing the new zero tolerance policy
for over-long papers!
We welcome both “current projects” as well as completed works of art,
though our emphasis is on the former. To keep things relatively
informal we DO NOT allow overhead projection, though you can print
out handouts or use the whiteboard. While we welcome papers from a
range of areas, technicality should be kept to a minimum and papers
made as accessible as possible.
Anyone interested in giving a paper should contact me at:
[email protected]
There is a lot of competition for slots, so from now on we will only
be accepting unsolicited papers from professional philosophers and
those affiliated with the centre for time. Amongst those affiliated
with the University of Sydney, strong preference will then be given
to those who are regular attendees at the seminar, and to papers that
are likely to be of broad interest to regular seminar attendees.
First up this semester we have John Lamont who will be talking to us
about the eleatic principle:
Abstract
The paper looks at a strong form of the Eleatic Principle, the form
according to which all real properties are causal properties.
Defenders of versions of this strong form, like George Molnar and
Alexander Bird, have not really done justice to the force of the
objections that have been given to it. These objections are
disentangled and clarified, and three of them are identified as being
good ones. These objections require a rejection of the 'dispositional
monism' or 'pure powers' view held by Bird. An alternative form of
the Eleatic Principle is then
proposed that is not vulnerable to these objections.
See you all there.....
Dr. Kristie Miller
University of Sydney Research Fellow
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room 411, A 18
[email protected]
[email protected]
Ph: 02 93569663
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%
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