Following on from the previous discussion of properties, Armstrong discusses whether or not particulars have their properties of necessity. Transcript here http://www.pufendorf.se/2004_lecture_3.asp
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Predication and Necessity
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Four disputes about properties
Respected Australian philosopher D.M. Armstrong discusses universals, properties and trope theory. First, he discusses the trope theory of Donald Williams. Then he discusses the distinction between bundle theories of properties and substance-attribute theories, then moves on to discuss categorical properties and powers, before discussing the topic of contingent and necessary predication. Although it doesn’t look like Armstrong is radically changing his views from those which he expressed in either his "Opinionated Introduction" to the subject of universals or his lengthy discussion in "Universals and Scientific Realism", it certainly looks like an interesting discussion. Transcript at http://www.pufendorf.se/2004_lecture_4.asp
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In Defence of the Cognitivist theory of Perception
D.M. Armstrong discusses the differences between cognitivist and non-cognitivist theories of perception and defends the former. See http://www.pufendorf.se/2004_lecture_2.asp
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The Scope and Limits of Human Knowledge
"Where do we have knowledge and where do we fall short of knowledge?" asks the admired Australian philosopher D. M. Armstrong in his first 2004 Pufendorf-föreläsningarna lecture.
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Saul Kripke - Unrestricted Exportation and Some Morals for the Philosophy of Language
A pioneer in the field of logic, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Saul Kripke, has spent 40 years studying the philosophy of language and is regarded by his peers to be one of the world’s greatest living philosophers. His research has led to professorships at Harvard, Princeton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2001, the Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded him the Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy, describing his work as “an enormous leap forward for modal logic.” This spring, CUNY created the Saul Kripke Center – a repository for the professor’s articles and unpublished works - at the Graduate Center. During the opening conference, Professor Kripke discusses his life’s work on Gricean maxims and the relationship between language and thought.
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