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The Contingent Brutalist answer to the Special Composition Question
The Special Composition Question is: “when do some things compose something?” Almost all answers to the SCQ say that it will be metaphysically necessary whether composition occurs or not under given conditions. I argue that this cannot be assumed, and that with few exceptions, whether composition occurs boils down to a brute and contingent fact about existence. I then sketch out some interesting epistemic implications of this view.
Date:
21 February 2017, 13:00
Venue:
Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
Lecture Room
Speaker:
Tomi Francis (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Faculty of Philosophy
Organiser:
Charlotte Figueroa (University of Oxford)
Part of:
The Ockham Society
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Mario Baptiste
