[SydPhil] Reminder: Alastair Wilson, Birmingham @ Wed 29 Oct 2014 15:30 - 17:00 (Seminars)

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Title: Alastair Wilson, Birmingham
"Emergent Contingency"

Abstract: Everettian quantum mechanics - otherwise known as the Many Worlds  
Interpretation - has many remarkable consequences. Perhaps the most  
remarkable is that physical contingency is an emergent phenomenon: at the  
fundamental level, physical reality is non-contingent. I argue that  
Everettians who favour a naturalistic approach to metaphysics have  
overwhelming reason to extend this account from physical contingency to  
metaphysical contingency, adopting a novel form of naturalistic modal  
realism. Fundamentally speaking, there is only one way things could  
possibly have been; non-fundamentally speaking, things could have been  
different in various ways. I trace some anticipations of these ideas by  
philosophers including Parmenides, Spinoza and Lewis, and discuss some  
distinctive features of the Everettian implementation of the idea.
When: Wed 29 Oct 2014 15:30 - 17:00 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Where: Muniment Room, Main Quad, University of Sydney
Calendar: Seminars
Who:
     * Dalia Nassar- creator

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