Faculty of Philosophy


The Serious Metaphysics Group


The Serious Metaphysics Group (SMG) meets at 5:30 pm on Wednesdays in the Faculty of Philosophy Board Room to hear and discuss papers from philosophers working on metaphysics inside or outside Cambridge. Papers normally last around 45 minutes (although shorter papers are also welcome), followed by about 45 minutes of questions and discussion.

The convokers of the SMG are Dr Fraser MacBride and Emily Thomas. Please email Emily (aeet2) to subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) the mailing list, or if you would like to give a paper.


Lent 2012 Termcard


16 January 2012

Jeremy Butterfield

23 January 2012

Robert Northcott

30 January 2012

Yohan Joo

6 February 2012

Allan Hazlett

13 February 2012

Bence Nanay

20 February 2012

Shyane Siriwardena

27 February 2012

Daniel Brigham

5 March 2012

Max Hummel


Recent SMG Termcards

     Michaelmas 2011 Termcard

12 October 2011

Alexis Papazoglou

19 October 2011

Jody Azzouni

26 October 2011

Peter Smith

2 November 2011

Fraser MacBride

9 November 2011

Alexander Greenberg

16 November 2011

Shyane Siriwardena

23 November 2011

Jonathan Birch

30 November 2011

Tamar Nawar


     Michaelmas 2010 Termcard

13 October 2010

Fraser MacBride

20 October 2010

Nathan Wildman

27 October 2010

Phyllis Illari

3 November 2010

Nick Jones

10 November 2010

Duen-Min Deng

17 November 2010

Markku Keinänen

24 November 2010

Josh Parsons

1 December 2010

Sam Coleman


     Lent 2010 Termcard

20 Jan 2010

Luca Incurvati - Iterative Conception and Metaphysical Dependence

27 Jan 2010

Fraser MacBride - Relations and Truth-Making

10 Feb 2010

Gemma Murray - Is Quantum Mechanics about Quantum Information?

17 Feb 2010

Duen-Min Deng - Wiggins' Individuative Essentialism

24 Feb 2010

Nathan Wildman - Hume's Dictum and Non-mereological composition: Lewis against Armstrong's States of Affairs

3 March 2010

Emily Thomas - Mereological nihilism in a gunky world

10 March 2010

Hugh Mellor - Successful Semantics


     Easter 2010 Termcard

28 April 2010

Daniel Nolan - She's Really Happening

5 May 2010

John Wright - Explaining the Novel Predictive Success of Science Without Realism or Truth

13 May 2010
(THURSDAY)

Helen Beebee - What's So Scientific About Scientific Essentialism?

2 June 2010

Gemma Murray - Chance in Empirical Theories

9 June 2010

Adam Caulton - Weak Discernibility, But Of What?