{"id":206,"date":"2013-10-08T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=206"},"modified":"2020-07-27T21:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T20:54:17","slug":"the-nature-of-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/the-nature-of-existence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of Existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Tim Crane<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to the recording <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=2038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The nature of existence&#8217; 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 is not about that important question, but about another one: the nature of existence as such. What is it for anything at all to exist?\u00a0Tim Crane\u00a0addresses 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 argues 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaker<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pet.cam.ac.uk\/fellows\/professor-tim-crane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Crane<\/a><br \/>\nKnightbridge Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Fellow-DanielleSands.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danielle Sands<\/a><br \/>\nVisiting Lecturer, Department of English, Queen Mary University of London and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recored on 8 October 2013 at the LSE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Crane &nbsp; Listen to the recording here &nbsp; &#8216;The nature of existence&#8217; is a phrase that will mean different things to different people. 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