Dear all,
The next SMG meeting will take place on Wednesday 5th Feb, 11am-12.30pm in the philosophy faculty board room. Our speaker is Irena Cronin (UCLA) who will give a talk entitled _On Aristotelian Universals and Individuals: the "Vink" that is in body and may be in me_ (abstract below). I hope to see you there. Best wishes, Matthew Simpson Irena Cronin - _On Aristotelian Universals and Individuals: the "Vink" that is in body and may be in me_ "G. E. L. Owen, in his influential paper "Inherence," talks of "vink," a name he has created for a particular shade of the color pink, and this "vink" serves as an individual in the Aristotelian category of quality. Owen was one of the first to aim to discredit the belief that J. L. Ackrill and his camp espoused, the belief that Aristotle thought that "general attributes are not in individuals, particular attributes are not in more than one individual." I postulate that there is nothing here that does not preclude the existence of transferable nonsubstantial particulars, and base this view on passages from Aristotle's _Categories _and certain examples found in Ammonius's commentary and _On Colors_. Given this, a nonsubstantial particular of "vink" would not have to rely on having inhered in just one particular body to have existence, however, it would have to inhere in at least one particular body." -- Matthew Simpson PhD Student in Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN
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