Dear all, A reminder that today Brian Pitts (Cambridge) will be giving a paper entitled “Energy Conservation, the Mind, and General Relativity" (abstract below) at the Serious Metaphysics Group.
As it was announced, due to job interviews the Serious Metaphysics Group will be held only for this week in room 326. The room can be found in the same floor that the Philosophy Faculty, but at the MML side of the Raised Faculty Building. Hope to see you there, Carlo Abstract: Mental causation has been a difficult subject for both longstanding and modern reasons. Property dualism with distinctively mental causal powers shares something like the traditional mind-body problem usually associated with interactionist substance dualism, including the enduringly popular energy conservation objection employed by Leibniz. However, modern physics has various features that are unknown in the philosophy of mind, which affect energy conservation objections both for the worse and for the better. General Relativity poses a novel energy conservation objection that is more powerful. Its effectiveness, however, ultimately depends upon background beliefs outside the philosophy of mind. _____________________________________________________ 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.
