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SUMMARY:The plurality of priority - Kerry McKenzie (University of Calgary)
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CONTACT:Christopher Clarke
DESCRIPTION:My talk will focus on how to think about the concept of ontolo
 gical priority from a broadly naturalistic perspective. After walking us t
 hrough some priority claims made by philosophers of physics\, I will argue
  that we are using a plurality of priority relations to express our fundam
 entality claims. After gesturing at why I think this plurality is problema
 tic\, I'll\nsuggest that we revise how we talk about priority and make a c
 ouple of prescriptions for doing so. What is noteworthy is that the concep
 tion of priority we thereby arrive at looks a lot like that defended in\nc
 ontemporary analytic metaphysics. The significance of this for the much-di
 scussed antagonism between philosophy of physics and analytic metaphysics 
 is a question I'll leave on the table.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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