[SydPhil] Macquarie Philosophy seminar 1.30pm Friday 22 June: John Maier (University of Sydney)

[Peter Menzies]

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>  *Research Seminar Series*
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> *First semester 2012*
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> *Department of Philosophy*
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> *Macquarie University*
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> Date: *Friday 22 June 1.30-3.30pm*
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> Location: Building W6A room 708
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> Speaker: *John Maier** (*University of Sydney)
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> Title: *Two Kinds of Fatalism*
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> Abstract:
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> Let temporal fatalism be the view that if someone will not perform some
> future action then she cannot perform that action. Some philosophers have
> argued for temporal fatalism, but the contemporary consensus seems to be
> that it is a mistaken view (even if it is difficult to agree on precisely
> why it is mistaken). In this talk I consider a similar view which is
> implicitly held by a number of philosophers but which, I think, is every
> bit as mistaken as temporal fatalism. This view I shall call modal
> fatalism, as it simply transposes the fatalist mistake from a temporal to a
> modal key.
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