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SUMMARY:Where would we be without counterfactuals? - Huw Price (Faculty of
  Philosophy)
DTSTART:20121101T163000Z
DTEND:20121101T180000Z
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CONTACT:Helen Curry
DESCRIPTION:Bertrand Russell's famous lecture 'On the Notion of a Cause' w
 as first delivered to the Aristotelian Society on 4 November 1912\, as Rus
 sell's Presidential Address. The paper is best known for a characteristica
 lly provocative passage in which Russell positions himself between the tra
 ditional metaphysics of causation and the British crown\, firing a broadsi
 de in both directions. 'The law of causality'\, he declares\, 'Like much t
 hat 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 celebrate the lecture's approaching centenary\, I offer a contempora
 ry assessment of the significance and fate of the issues that Russell here
  puts on the table\, and of the health or otherwise\, at the end of its fi
 rst century\, of his notorious conclusion.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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