Dear all,
This Thursday (Nov 17) the Serious Metaphysics Group is pleased to welcome Dr Jessica Leech from KCL, who will be presenting a talk entitled 'Against Logical Essence' (abstract below). The seminar will be at 1.00-2.30pm, at the Philosophy faculty board room. Feel free to bring lunch along. For the rest of the Michaelmas term card, have a look here: http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG [1] Best wishes, Li Li -- ABSTRACT An increasingly popular view at the intersection of logic and metaphysics is that logical necessities have their source in the essences of logical entities. More particularly, there is a view according to which metaphysical necessity has its source in the essences or natures of things. Logical necessity is thus understood as a restriction of metaphysical necessity. But logical and metaphysical necessity are, nevertheless, importantly distinct. There are metaphysical necessities that are not plausibly to be classed as logical necessities. In this paper I will argue that this essentialist account of logical necessity is seriously flawed, insofar as it unwittingly mis-classifies some merely metaphysical necessities as logical necessities. The essences of logical entities, if there are such, are too rich a source to give rise only to logical necessities. -- Li Li Tan PhD Candidate in Philosophy St Catharine's College Links: ------ [1] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG _____________________________________________________ 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.
