Dear all, The next meeting of the Serious Metaphysics Group will be on Thursday (the 5th). John Heil will be speaking on 'Causal Relations' (abstract below). As usual, we'll meet from 1:00 - 2:30pm in the Graduate Common Room in the Philosophy Faculty. We'll take John for coffee at Fitzbillies after the talk, and everyone is very welcome to join us.
Hope to see you there, Georgie Causal Relations On the received view of causation, causal relations are a distinctive species of external relation. This paper explores the implications of adopting a conception of causation according to which causal relations are understood as manifestings of reciprocal powers. On such a conception, causation would most naturally be seen as a kind of internal relation, a relation founded on non-relational features of its relata. The consequences of such a view for familiar conceptions of natural necessity are assessed. -- Georgie Statham PhD Candidate Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
