Dear all,
This week's meeting of the Serious Metaphysics Group will take place on Wednesday December 4th, between 5.30-7.00pm. This week our speaker is Carlo Rossi who will be giving a talk entitled _Intensionalism, State of Affairs, and Intrinsic Relativistic Predication _(abstract below). I hope to see you there - this will be the last meeting of the SMG this term. IMPORTANT - SMG LENT TERM TIME CHANGE: There is still the issue of a timetable change for the SMG next term. Earlier this term I emailed about a possible time change, and currently the best slot appears to be between 11.00am-12.30pm, still on Wednesdays. This will hopefully allow as many people as possible to come, including for once those who can't come at the moment due to childcare and other commitments, and it also doesn't interfere too much with lunch or with CamPoS. Though I know that no one time is going to be ok for everyone, unless I get a big deluge of objections I will ask the Faculty office to rearrange the group time for next term at least. If this time works, in Easter we can continue with it or a suitable alternative, and then next year hopefully an even better time can be sorted for the SMG. Best wishes, Matthew Simpson Carlo Rossi - _Intensionalism, State of Affairs, and Intrinsic Relativistic Predication_ "A substantial part of the contemporary debate on the metaphysics of change and persistence has dealt on the impact that the Special Theory of Relativity has in the way we explain the conditions of persistence of material objects, by translating our most plausible accounts of endurance and perdurance from a non-relativistic to a relativistic framework. However, little attention has been paid to a similar task that should be pursued in the domain of temporary intrinsic properties. Such neglect is a considerably serious one, especially in light of the criticism raised by Sattig (2006) to the standard accounts of temporary intrinsics available to endurance theorists. In particular, Sattig charges these accounts of not being able to meet the Temporal Supervenience task, which consists in (i) specifying the spacetime facts on which certain types of ordinary temporal facts supervene and (ii) explaining how these ordinary temporal facts supervene. In particular, facts about persistence and facts about temporal instantiation. This paper aims to defend an account of temporary intrinsics available to endurantists that combines elements of an intensional semantics with an ontology of state of affairs for solving the Problem of Change (Forbes 1988, Mellor 1998, Koons 2000, Haslanger 2003), thus showing it represents a viable alternative for the endurantist in order to deal with the challenge posed by Sattig." -- Matthew Simpson PhD Student in Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN
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