Greetings all,
Just a reminder that tomorrow is our first current projects seminar of
the year.
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.
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]
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Ph: 02 93569663
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html
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