Samuel

Views are from nowhere.

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

Philosophers are generally more squeamish about necessity than possibility. But why?! My new paper, forthcoming in JAPA, investigates https://t.co/wBkb5czrV0

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

I have a new paper out about modality, inspired by Jess Leech's recent book (https://t.co/gjKsxZrW02), in which I explore connections between duality of the modal operators, relative modality, and modal (anti) realism. https://t.co/Hzc377VAeX

[SotonPhilosophy @SotonPhilosophy]

Come and work with us! Our @Ethics_of_Doubt project is advertising a two year research fellowship, details:
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[SotonPhilosophy @SotonPhilosophy]

We are delighted to welcome two new lecturers this academic year. Umut Baysan (metaphysics, philosophy of mind, metaethics) will join us this September, and Samuel Kimpton-Nye (metaphysics, philosophy of science, @KimptonNye) will join us in January. Welcome Umut and Sam!

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

Science is more of an art than a science.

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

I’ll be talking at a workshop on Jessica Leech’s “Thinking of Necessity” in December. Sign up and details here: https://t.co/iR7q4jPlXY

[Francesco Berto @Franz_Berto]

Here's another book you really don't need to buy -- because it's Open Access!

@StAndrewsPhil @ArchePhilosophy

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

@WillSharp55 Awesome! Congrats Will!

[Will Sharp @WillSharp55]

*Hot off the press* My contribution to the conversation on how color ontology interacts with contemporary thinking on neural representation. Colors are not, I argue, relations between subjects, viewing circumstances, and surfaces: https://t.co/duwEUi00Y9

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

@nonoumenon I think it takes non-Humean sympathies to deny these possibilities.

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

Can Humeans simply reject fine tuning arguments on the grounds that different values of constants or whatever could indeed give rise to life?

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

@nonoumenon If there are no necessary connections then maybe there could be a world in which, e.g., the gravitational constant is different but matter nonetheless coalesceses just as it does in the actual world, or it doesn’t coalesce but we still get life, etc.?

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

@ahrenbach Yes, sure!

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

Just writing up a paper presenting a whole new modal anti-realist programme, no biggie.

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

@KennethLPearce @ShamikDasgupta1 Wow, sounds great! I look forward to reading this.

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

Beliefs about possibility are no more easily justified than beliefs about necessity. They are probably *harder* to justify. So philosophy has been on the wrong track for hundreds of years, with odd consequences. Now published online and open access: https://t.co/5qD1q6hGdm

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

Philosophers are generally more squeamish about necessity than possibility. But why?! My new paper, forthcoming in JAPA, investigates https://t.co/wBkb5czrV0

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

@elliotcarter85 I think this is very much in the vicinity! I agree that the argument I wrote above has strong PSR vibes.

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

If there are other possible worlds it is arbitrary that *this* world is actual. It is not arbitrary that this world is actual. Therefore, there are no other possible worlds and everything is necessary.

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

@MikeBenchCapon Yeah interesting! But is that the same thing? I’m not so sure 🤔

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

@Disagreeable_I @petemandik Maybe if it is arbitrary that this world is actual, then every particular matter of fact is arbitrary. This is worse than just my location being arbitrary (maybe!). Though of course if my argument is right then nothing is arbitrary not even where we are located at a time!

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

@Disagreeable_I @petemandik E.g. maybe some arbitrariness is ok like where I am, but we’ve gotta draw the line somewhere!

[Samuel @KimptonNye]

@Disagreeable_I @petemandik I suppose I’m trying to say that there is a relevant disanalogy here so that I can deny Pete’s p2 but keep mine.