[SydPhil] University of Sydney Postgraduate Colloquium Paper - Jun 04

[Tama Coutts]

Hey All,
 
Here are
the details for next week's talk. This will be the final talk for this semester.


Speaker: Johann Hariman

 
Title: A Ground-Theoretic Approach to the Fundamentality Question
 Abstract: 

The 
fundamentality question asks whether there is a most fundamental layer 
of reality. Cameron claims that while the prominent intuition favours an affirmative answer, convincing arguments for the affirmative answer are lacking. Cameron offers a tentative argument by appeal to theoretical utility to the effect that the affirmative answer is contingently true. This paper approaches the fundamentality question from a different angle. Rather 
than defend some answer, I frame the question ground-theoretically. I then provide a taxonomy of views that makes 
clear what theses about grounding are congenial to one answer or 
another. 

Talk
Details:

Time:
3pm, Mon Jun 04

Location:
Philosophy common-room, quadrangle building, University of Sydney
 
Cheers,
 
Tama
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