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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture: Where would we be without counterfactuals? - Hu
 w Price (Faculty of Philosophy)
DTSTART:20121101T173000Z
DTEND:20121101T183000Z
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CONTACT:Jenni Lecky-Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Huw Price will give his inaugural lecture as Bertrand Russell 
 Professor of Philosophy:\nBertrand Russell's celebrated essay "On the Noti
 on of Cause" (http://www.jstor.org/stable/4543833) was first delivered to 
 the Aristotelian Society on 4 November 1912\, as Russell's Presidential Ad
 dress. The piece is best known for a passage in which its author deftly po
 sitions himself between the traditional metaphysics of causation and the B
 ritish crown\, firing broadsides in both directions: "The law of causality
 "\, Russell declares\, "Like much that passes muster in philosophy\, is a 
 relic of a bygone age\, surviving\, like the monarchy\, only because it is
  erroneously supposed to do no harm." To mark the lecture's centenary\, we
  offer a contemporary view of the issues Russell here puts on the table\, 
 and of the health or otherwise\, at the end of the essay's first century\,
  of his notorious conclusion.\nFree and open to the public. There is no ne
 ed to book.
LOCATION:LB3\, Lecture Block\, Sidgwick Site
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