Dear all, At the next meeting of the SMG we will have Prof. David Oderberg (Reading) presenting a talk entitled ‘Evil, Negative Being, and Truthmakers’ (abstract below). As usual it will be on Wednesday (the 30th), from 4.30 to 6.00pm in the Philosophy Faculty Board Room. The talk should last about 45 minutes followed by questions and discussion. All graduate students are welcome.
After the talk we will be going to a nearby restaurant for dinner. If you would like to join Prof. Oderberg (at your own expense) please let me know by midday tomorrow. A full list of speakers for Lent term is available here: https://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG Abstract: According to the privation theory of evil, held by the Scholastic philosophers, all evil is the privation of goodness. Privations are a special kind of negative being, but like all negative beings they are subject to the question of whether they can act as truthmakers for negative – in this case privative – truths. The answer for privations, then, depends on the correct view of truthmakers for negative truths in general. I argue against the claim that negative truths can have negative beings as truthmakers, and in favour of an exclusion account of negative truth. I use this as the launchpad for my Scholastic-style defence of the position that privative truths can only have positive or real beings as truthmakers. I thereby give privations their special ontological due while at the same time embedding them within a broader theory of negative being. See you there! Nathan Hawkins PhD student in Philosophy Cambridge University _____________________________________________________ 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.
