Dear all, The Serious Metaphysics Group will meet this Wednesday from 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. in the Faculty Board Room.
Our speaker is me, Alex Roberts (Cambridge). The title and abstract are as follows. Title: Theories of Necessity Abstract: Metaphysical necessity is often presumed to satisfy a specific but quite multifarious theoretical role. It is striking, however, is that no one has developed a theory of metaphysical necessity which predicts that the notion does in fact meet its presumed role. Indeed, no one has ever provided a guarantee that its presumed role is even satisfiable, in the sense that a single modality can occupy it. In the talk, I will outline a theory of metaphysical necessity which recovers core elements of its theoretical role. I will also use the theory to argue that these core elements are jointly satisfiable. Along the way, I will use the theory to justify other aspects of the presumed theoretical role, for example by providing a novel argument for the thesis that metaphysical necessity is different from merely logical necessity. The full termcard is available on the webpage <https://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG <https://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG>>. Best wishes, Alex Alexander Roberts Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge Website <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd4036/> _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
