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Elanor Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, will present a talk titled "Explanatory Substantivity."

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Abstract: "Substantivity" is the metaphysician's term for the legitimacy of metaphysical inquiry. In light of the worry that extant accounts of substantivity do not accommodate social metaphysics I develop an account of substantivity in terms of explanatory power. I show that this approach accommodates social metaphysics and offers a plausible basis for a general metametaphysics.

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