Title: Intrinsic Property

Speaker: Siyuan He (PKU)

Time: 15:10 ~ 18:00  (Mar. 15)

Abstract: Intrinsic property as an important philosophical concept, has played an important role in many philosophical fields, including discussions in intrinsic value, supervenience thesis, real changes and Cambridge change. Although the concept of intrinsic property is very important in contemporary philosophy, the special study of intrinsic property had only been carried out after 1980s. This talk will introduce several typical approaches to clarify the concept of intrinsic property, such as The Isolation Approach, The Duplicate Approach, The Grounding Approach. By analyzing these three typical approaches, we will point out the problems encountered in each approach and the challenges in studying the intrinsic property.

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