The Serious Metaphysics Group
The Serious Metaphysics Group (SMG) meets at 6:30pm on Wednesdays in P Seminar Room, Trinity Hall 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, Emily Caddick and Rob Trueman. Please email Emily (erc36) to subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) the mailing list, or if you would like to give a paper.
Michaelmas 2009 Termcard
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14 Oct 2009 |
Ted Honderich - Being Conscious is Something's Being Actual - What and How? |
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21 Oct 2009 |
Tim Lewens - Essence of Tiger |
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28 Oct 2009 |
Rob Trueman - Overlapping Sortals |
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4 Nov 2009 |
Nathan Wildman - Sortal Essentialism? |
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11 Nov 2009 |
Antony Eagle - Multiple Locations |
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18 Nov 2009 |
Christina Cameron - title TBA |
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25 Nov 2009 |
Richard Woodward - The Mechanics of Generation |
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2 Dec 2009 |
TBA |
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Recent SMG Termcards
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6 May 2009 |
Alan Baker - Parts, Wholes and Emergence |
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13 May 2009 |
Emily Caddick - Truthmaking and Indefiniteness in Fiction |
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20 May 2009 |
Mark Sprevak - Extending the Conscious Mind |
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27 May 2009 |
Craig Bourne - Spatial Locations over Time |
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21 Jan 2009 |
Jeremy Butterfield & Adam Caulton - Identity in Logic and Metaphysics: Some Themes |
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28 Jan 2009 |
Adam Stewart-Wallace - Should Aristotle Have Been a Relativist? |
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4 Feb 2009 |
Nathan Wildman - Possibility: Innocent Until Proven Guilty? |
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11 Feb 2009 |
Rob Trueman - How Much Does a Train Weigh? |
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18 Feb 2009 |
Duen-Min Deng - Criteria of Identity and the Statement of Essence |
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4 Mar 2009 |
Craig Bourne & Emily Caddick - Story Time |
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11 Mar 2009 |
Alexander Bird - The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds |
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15 Oct 2008 |
Peter Simons – An Ontology of Truth for Straitened Times |
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22 Oct 2008 |
Nathan Wildman - Truthmakers and Commitments |
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29 Oct 2008 |
Robbie Williams – Maximal Properties, Intrinsic Properties and Persistence |
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5 Nov 2008 |
Nick Treanor - The Measure of Knowledge |
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12 Nov 2008 |
Francesco Orilia - The Problem of Relational Order: a Leibnizian view |
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19 Nov 2008 |
Max Kistler – Downward Causation |
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26 Nov 2008 |
Nevia Dolcini - Is the Migration of Ficta a Fiction? |
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30 April 2008 |
Peter Smith - "There are sea-serpents, Jim, but not as we know them" |
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7 May 2008 |
Nathan Wildman – Kit Fine on Essences |
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14 May 2008 |
Tim Button – Supertasks and the Principle of Sufficient Reason |
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21 May 2008 |
Stephen Mumford - Powers as Causal Truthmakers |
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28 May 2008 |
Arif Ahmed - Causation and Effective Strategies |
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30 January 2008 |
Tim Button - Where fiction ends and fact begins |
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6 February 2008 |
Fraser MacBride - On the Genesis of Order |
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13 February 2008 |
Adam Stewart-Wallace - Travis' argument from radical semantic contextualism against property-realism |
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20 February 2008 |
Nathan Wildman - Moderate monism and modality |
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27 February 2008 |
D.H. Mellor - Negative Causes |
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5 March 2008 |
Stuart Hal Smith - A Transcendental Deduction of the Persistence of Persons? |
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12 March 2008 |
Tim Crane - Three dogmas of Quinean ontology |
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10 October 2007 |
Tim Button - Putnam's proof that we are not brains in vats |
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17 October 2007 |
Nathan Wildman - Lowe's a posteriori essentialism for natural kinds |
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24 October 2007 |
Nicholas Koziolek - Pain might not have been pain |
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31 October 2007 |
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra - The subtraction argument for metaphysical nihilism |
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7 November 2007 |
Adrian Boutel - Lewis against the Lagadonian: the problem of alien properties for linguistic ersatzism about possible worlds |
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14 November 2007 |
Robin LePoidevin - The indivisibility of the mental |
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21 November 2007 |
Emily Caddick - Imagining being someone else |
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9 May 2007 |
Tim Button - Putnam's permutation argument and Merrill's response |
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16 May 2007 |
Adam Stewart-Wallace - Carolina Sartorio on Disjunctive causes |
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23 May 2007 |
David Liggins - Van Inwagen and composition |
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30 May 2007 |
Nathan Wildman - Trans-world identity |
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6 June 2007 |
D.H. Mellor - Microcomposition |
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13 June 2007 |
Adrian Boutel - Melnykian physicalism |
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17 January 2007 |
Nathan Wildman - Love and Rationality |
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24 January 2007 |
Nathan Wildman - Minimalist essentialism |
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14 February 2007 |
D.H. Mellor - Truthmakers |
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21 February 2007 |
Tim Button - Bundles |
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28 February 2007 |
Carrie Peffley - Aristotelian views of substance |
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7 February 2007 |
Tyron Goldschmidt - Foster and non-physical mental subjects |
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14 February 2007 |
Tim Button - No-futurism |
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