Dear all, A reminder that the Serious Metaphysics Group resumes today with a talk by Tim Button (St John's) entitled “A Dogma of Metaphysics” (abstract below).
The seminar will take place at the Philosophy Faculty Board Room from 4.30 to 6.00pm. The talk should last about 45 minutes followed by questions and discussion. You could have a look for the rest of the Lent term card here: http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG Hope to see you there, Carlo Abstract: Many contemporary metaphysics embrace the following dogma. ***There is a uniquely best fundamental theory of the world. The grammar of this theory is familiar to us: regular first-order logic (or perhaps some extension of it). The fundamental ontology is provided via the theory's first-order entities. The fundamental ideology is provided via the theory's primitive predicates (and perhaps other aspects of the theory's vocabulary).*** But we can, and should, reject this dogma. _____________________________________________________ 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.
