The Nature of Existence
Prof. Tim Crane (Cambridge University)

October 8, 2013, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Forum for European Philosophy

London
United Kingdom

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Public Lecture

The Nature of Existence
 

Tuesday 8 October, 6.30-8.00pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
 
Tim Crane, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
 
Chair: Danielle Sands, Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, Queen Mary University of London and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow    
 
'The nature of existence' is a phrase that will mean different things to different people. To some it will bring to mind the question of the nature of our own existence. This lecture will not be about that important question, but about another one: the nature of existence as such. What is it for anything at all to exist? Tim Crane will address this question by contrasting existence with non-existence, and contrasting the kinds of properties existing and non-existing things have. He rejects the claim, deriving from Descartes and Malebranche, that nothingness can have no properties, and instead he will argue that non-existing things can only have properties of one distinctive kind. This marks a difference with existing things, and tells us something about the nature of existence.

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