Phil of Physics Tomorrow! Fw: Philosophy Speakers Program Jan 18: KERRY MCKENZIE (Calgary)

[Richard Zach]

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*The **P**hilosophy **S**peakers **P**rogram*

*at the University of Calgary*

*presents*

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*Kerry McKenzie***

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*University of Calgary*

*/A Puzzle About Priority in Structuralism/*

*Friday, January 18^th , 3:00 pm*

*in Social Sciences Building, Room 1253*

*About the Talk:*
Ontic structural realism (OSR) is a philosophy of physics that holds 
that structures of physics have ontological priority over the objects of 
physics, such as elementary particles and spacetime points.  But 
complaints have been frequently lodged against OSR that the way in which 
priority is understood has not been clearly presented, with a number of 
distinct relations being alluded to and subsequently used 
interchangeably.  In a recent article, I claimed that the relation most 
apt for OSR's priority claims was Kit Fine's notion of ontological 
dependence, and then used that to try to sharpen up the claims of 
structuralism.  But in this talk, I'll reassess the presumption of that 
article that there is such a thing as "the" most appropriate priority 
relation for structuralism, and confront some challenges that face the 
doctrine if we adopt a more pluralistic approach to priority.

*About the Speaker:
*Kerry McKenzie is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at the University 
of Calgary.  She received her PhD in 2012 from the University of Leeds 
and has research interests in the areas of philospohy of science and 
metaphysics.

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