Dear all, The last Serious Metaphysics meeting of the term will take place on May 30th (we'll be skipping a week to make way for Arif's workshop). The session will feature the creator of our group, Prof. Hugh Mellor, speaking on "Nature's Joints: a Realistic Defence of Natural Properties" (abstract below).
As usual we'll be meeting at 4:30pm in the Philosophy Faculty Board Room; I hope to see many of you there. Best, Emily ______________________________ ABSTRACT: 'Nature's Joints: a Realistic Defence of Natural Properties' 'In this talk I attack two contrary views. One denies that nature has joints, taking the properties we call natural to be merely artefacts of our theories. The other accepts real natural properties but takes their naturalness to come by degrees. I argue that both views are wrong: nature has real joints, i.e. there are real natural properties, independent of our theories; and the naturalness of these properties no more comes by degrees than does the naturalness of the things that have them.' _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
