[CamPhilEvents] Serious Metaphysics Group - starts Oct 8

Dear all, This term the Serious Metaphysics Group seminars will start this Thursday, Oct 8 at 1.00-2.30pm at the Philosophy faculty Board Room. Bence Nanay will be speaking on Affective Considerations in Meta-metaphysics (abstract below). The talk should last about 45 minutes followed by

[CamPhilEvents] Serious Metaphysics Group Nov 26

Parfit's own version of this argument > inevitably leads to exploitability and that a (conjectured) Lewisian > amendment of it runs an uncontrollable risk of doing so. -- Li Li Tan PhD (Probationary) in Philosophy St Cath

[CamPhilEvents] SMG 9 June

theory can successfully resist Wittgenstein, regardless of whether the same can be said for Russell. -- Li Li Tan PhD (Probationary) in Philosophy St Catharine's College _ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your

[CamPhilEvents] SMG 2 June

no theoretical parsimony and, due to Gödellian results about the reduction, that it offers no benefit in making modality easier to understand or work with. -- Li Li Tan PhD (Probationary) in Philosophy St Catharine's College _ To unsubscribe from

[CamPhilEvents] SMG 11 Feb

-first framework. -- Li Li Tan PhD (Probationary) in Philosophy St Catharine's College _ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly

[CamPhilEvents] SMG 25 February

. With this distinction in place, it becomes apparent that the original arguments only get us as far a practical, rather than metaphysical indispensability. -- Li Li Tan PhD (Probationary) in Philosophy St Catharine's College _ To unsubscribe from

[CamPhilEvents] SMG 3 March

is notoriously open to counterexamples. This paper puts forward an alternative view to the standard account. It argues that disposition ascriptions are possibility claims, and that this semantic fact gives us reason to question the distinction between categorical vs dispositional properties.

[CamPhilEvents] SMG 28 April

have argued that these examples should lead us to reject veritism. This conclusion, I'll argue, is unwarranted. A plausible version of veritism can deal with these examples. But these examples do reveal a fundamental difference between theoretical and practical normativity. -- Li Li Tan PhD

[CamPhilEvents] SMG 19 May

Dear all, This Thursday, Serious Metaphysics returns with Carlo Rossi's talk entitled 'Endurance and Identity'. (Abstract below) As usual, 1.00-2.30pm at the philosophy faculty board room. Feel free to bring lunch along. Hope to see you there, Li Li Abstract The received view about

[CamPhilEvents] SMG 5 May

. -- Li Li Tan PhD (Probationary) in Philosophy St Catharine's College _ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive

[CamPhilEvents] SMG 12 May

the latter seriously, we need to be open to the possibility of multiple persons given the ubiquity of individuals who have radically discontinuous psychological states as a result of typical life experiences. -- Li Li Tan PhD (Probationary) in Philosophy St Catharine's College

[CamPhilEvents] Serious Metaphysics 21 April

version of the powerful qualities view simply collapses into a pure powers view. -- Li Li Tan PhD (Probationary) in Philosophy St Catharine's College _ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options

[CamPhilEvents] 6 OCT - Serious Metaphysics Group

of normativity: ought or reason? I shall set out the best version of reason fundamentalism, and argue that ought fundamentalism has the advantage over it. -- Li Li Tan PhD Candidate in Philosophy St Catharine's College _ To unsubscribe from

[CamPhilEvents] 10 Nov - Serious Metaphysics Group

blem cases, and respects the fact that perception is simultaneously external (i.e., presents us with reality) and internal (i.e., intra-dermally phenomenally modulated). I argue that alternative versions of NR fail to have these advantages. -- Li Li Tan PhD Candidate in Philosophy St Catharine's College

[CamPhilEvents] 27 Oct - Serious Metaphysics Group

for this neglect. In particular, I argue that the recalcitrant nature of recalcitrant emotions can be accounted for by their cognitive impenetrability. -- Li Li Tan PhD Candidate in Philosophy St Catharine's College Links: -- [1] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG

[CamPhilEvents] 24 Nov - Serious Metaphysics Group

Anscombe is right. The second part will then be devoted to expounding a positive Anscombian account of the relation between practical reason and intentional action. -- Li Li Tan PhD Candidate in Philosophy St Catharine's College _ To unsubscribe

[CamPhilEvents] 17 Nov - Serious Metaphysics Group

. The essences of logical entities, if there are such, are too rich a source to give rise only to logical necessities. -- Li Li Tan PhD Candidate in Philosophy St Catharine's College Links: -- [1] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG

[CamPhilEvents] 3 Nov - Serious Metaphysics Group

e we don't want to make such daft claims, we need to drop the ways of thinking that push us towards them. Drawing on Wittgenstein's Blue Books, I shall sketch how. -- Li Li Tan PhD Candidate in Philosophy St Catharine's College Links: -- [1] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminar