tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6411624366539130337.post2327455433456174976..comments2023-10-30T03:34:36.329-07:00Comments on Michael Bench-Capon's Blog: Avicenna vs TurtlesMichael Bench-Caponhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13715068990919309271noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6411624366539130337.post-11463979419477740252017-08-01T10:18:13.371-07:002017-08-01T10:18:13.371-07:00What I meant is that it's fairly recent for An...What I meant is that it's fairly recent for Anglophone metaphysicians to be thinking this way about this sort of thing. The narrative I was thinking of was basically the one where the logical positivists and Quine made people think the metaphysics people got from reading Aristotle was terribly unscientific, and while Kripke et al told people it was OK to think about necessity, they didn't really get back into ontological dependence until Kit Fine told them that was OK in the mid 90s. Of course, we're all still too cool to actually *read* Aristotle, so we may have kind of gone our own way with the concept and not be talking about quite what he, Avicenna, Scotus etc had in mind. But I'm glad to hear we've been talking about something recognizable in Scotus, and certainly didn't intend to say anything that rules this out!Michael Bench-Caponhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13715068990919309271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6411624366539130337.post-28361458430145883792017-08-01T08:08:12.015-07:002017-08-01T08:08:12.015-07:00"fairly recently started thinking about thing..."fairly recently started thinking about things in terms of <i>ontological dependence</i>."<br /><br />This is recent? Huh. Since I hang around with more medieval metaphysicians than modern ones, I never would've known this.<br /><br />JT Paasch talked about Scotus on ontological dependence at the Time & Modality conference in Bonn that G. and I were at week before last.Sara L. Uckelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14716054827293611237noreply@blogger.com