Dear all,
This Thursday (21 Jan) the Serious Metaphysics Group is collaborating with the New Directions Project (www.newdirectionsproject.com) to host our next speaker. Margot Strohminger (Antwerp) will be presenting 'Perceptual Knowledge of Nonactual Possibilities' (abstract below). The talk will be at 1.00-2.30pm, at the Philosophy Faculty Board Room. You are welcome to bring along lunch if you are arriving from another talk/lecture beforehand. For the rest of the Lent term card please have a look at the website: http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG Best wishes, Li Li -- Abstract > It is widely assumed that sense perception cannot deliver knowledge of > nonactual (metaphysical) possibilities. We are not supposed to be able to > know that a proposition _p _is necessary or that _p _is possible (if _p _is > false) by sense perception. My aim in the talk will be to convince you that > the role of sense perception is not so limited. I will argue that we can know > lots of modal facts by perception. While the most straightforward examples > concern possibility and contingency, others concern necessity and > impossibility. The possibility of a perceptual route to some modal knowledge > is not as radical as it may at first sound. On the contrary, acknowledging it > has benefits. -- Li Li Tan PhD (Probationary) in Philosophy St Catharine's College _____________________________________________________ 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.
