PhilOnTap

Join philsoc for another exciting PhilOnTap night at the white hart at 7pm Thursday the 29th of October! Our guest speaker will be Jonathan Davis! “All Natural Properties are Temporal Properties. Or why Tib is not a Cat” “In the tradition of philosophical speculation with only the sketchiest grasp of the relevant science, I will present some poorly thought through ideas about properties. Namely that all properties that pertain to natural objects are temporal - that is, only characterisable by thinking of them over time. I will start with the easy cases (e.g. the property of being fast, being a cat …), then attempt some trickier cases (being a mountain, possessing mass). I will suggest that some famous metaphysical puzzles arise from trying to treat properties as possessed by object instantaneously