Dear all, This coming Monday's current projects speaker will be Sam Baron presenting a paper titled "Still Cheating, Not Quite Prospering"
It is a common view that propositions depend for their truth upon what exists. In an intriguing series of papers, Jonathan Tallant defends a view that he calls no grounds cheating (NGC). Roughly, the idea behind NGC is that, in some cases, one can accept that certain propositions are true even though there is nothing in the world that ‘makes’ them true. Tallant provides two reasons to cheat (i) cheating leads toward a more ontologically parsimonious metaphysics and (ii) cheating allows us to preserve two commonsense intuitions: absences do not exist and the past does not exist. Kramer has already argued against (i). I argue against (ii). See you all there. Dr. Kristie Miller University of Sydney Senior 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_Page.html
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