“To Be Determined: On Literature’s Causes”, Andrea Gadberry
Program in Cultures, Civilizations & Ideas and English of Language and Literature will host an academic talk: Andrea Gadberry, New York University Title: To Be Determined: On Literature's Causes Description: This paper examines the problem of causal explanation, of literature's "causes," by looking to an unlikely literary-philosophical source: the fairytale. Following Heidegger's "principle of reason" back into […]
“Cavendishian observations on principal and occasional causes”, Laura Georgescu
Title: Cavendishian observations on principal and occasional causes By Laura Georgescu (Groningen, Philosophy) Date: Thursday April 28, 2022 Time: 15.30-17.00 (GMT+3) This is an online event. All are welcome. Zoom: go to www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr Abstract: Suppose you are an early modern natural philosopher committed to a substance–mode ontology. If all the available entities in your ontology are substances and their modes, […]