[MaFLa] reminder: invitation to a talk on `Modality and Production in Laws of Nature` by Markus Schrenk - Tuesday, 20 February, 3.30 PM, Nádor 15, Room 103

[Krisztina Biber]

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Markus Schrenk (University of Düsseldorf)
on
Modality and Production in Laws of Nature

Tuesday, 20 February, 2018, 3.30 PM, Nádor 15, Room 103


ABSTRACT

Hume held the view that "efficacy, agency, power, force, energy, necessity, connexion, and productive quality, are [...] nearly synonymous." (Hume, Treatise, p. 157) The notion of production has been equated with or has been analysed in terms of necessity ever since.
Focusing on (diachronic, dynamic) laws of nature, this paper is an attempt to explicate a notion of production which is free of modal connotations. However, second, it also aims to develop ways in which a (non-modally conceived) production can account for the (nomological) necessity with which laws govern their instances. The leitmotif for the latter idea parallels the Finean move to ground metaphysical necessity in essence rather than vice versa: production is to nomological necessity what essence is said to be for metaphysical necessity.


Krisztina Biber
Department of Philosophy
Coordinator
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