Dear all, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held on Tuesday 29th January. We are delighted to welcome Anna Marmodoro (Oxford/Durham), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Building the world without relations. The master builders: Anaxagoras, Plato and Aristotle'. Here is an abstract for the talk:
*Can Plato improve on Russell? I will offer a new understanding of Plato’s Theory of Forms which I hope will motivate a re-conception of relations in contemporary philosophy. In Plato’s theory, ‘participation in a Form’ is the mechanism by which properties are instantiated in things. There is no other mechanism of instantiation of a property, for any type of property, than participation in a Form. Since Forms are uniform (monoeides), participation is in uniformity. It follows that neither the Forms, nor their instantiation can ground asymmetrical properties in things. How, then, does Plato account for the metaphysics of relations? Could it lead us to a novel understanding of relations? I aim to stimulate thoughts in this direction. * The meeting will be held from 2:30 until 4:15 in the Jane Harrison Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. If you would like to have dinner with the speaker in the evening following the talk, please email the secretaries of the club ([email protected]) by midday on Monday 28th. This dinner is open to anyone who has attended the talk and those who sign up for dinner will be notified of the details closer to the time. Best wishes, -- Annie Bosse, Benjamin Marschall and Lucy McDonald Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ 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.
