{"id":566,"date":"2016-12-06T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=566"},"modified":"2019-04-29T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T12:58:35","slug":"metaphysics-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysics Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OU Philosophy welcomed guest speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chss.uaeu.ac.ae\/en\/profile\/profile.shtml?email=p.j.meadows\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.chss.uaeu.ac.ae');\">Phillip Meadows<\/a> from the United Arab Emirates University to a one-off Metaphysics Day on November 30 2016. He talked about the puzzle of absences, which seem to be both vital to causal explanations (&#8216;It happened because there were no electron&#8217;) and yet incapable of causing anything (&#8216;How can absent electrons, or absent anything elses for that matter, have causal properties?&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>OU philosophers rounded out the day with contributions on the metaphysics of sports (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/jep34\" >Jon Pike<\/a>), moral refutations of metaphysics (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/awb64\" >Alex Barber<\/a>) and the objectivity of ordinary life (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/tc2973\" >Sophie Grace Chappell<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OU Philosophy welcomed guest speaker Phillip Meadows from the United Arab Emirates University to a one-off Metaphysics Day on November 30 2016. He talked about the puzzle of absences, which seem to be both vital to causal explanations (&#8216;It happened because there were no electron&#8217;) and yet incapable of causing anything (&#8216;How can absent electrons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-publications","category-research-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}