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The Serious Metaphysics Group (SMG) is currently run by Marcus Ackermann (maa208@cam.ac.uk) and Alexander Bird (ajb368@cam.ac.uk).
The Serious Metaphysics Group was founded last millennium by Hugh Mellor. It is somewhat mis-named, since it is neither especially serious nor does it focus exclusively on metaphysics. (For Mellor ‘serious metaphysics’ takes metaphysics seriously as a subject matter and does not regard metaphysical truths merely as, for example, shadows of grammar.) The Serious Metaphysics Group functions as a slightly more intimate and relaxed version of the Moral Sciences Club, generally on topics in theoretical philosophy, broadly construed (metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, etc.). We often invite current graduate students to present, so it is a good opportunity along with the graduate seminar, to present work-in-progress and receive feedback. Like Moral Sciences, it is run by a graduate student or two each year, so it is also an opportunity to get involved in putting together a speaker series, inviting some of the people (at least those based in the UK) whose work you're interested in and getting to talk to them about it.
See below for upcoming talks. Abstracts are below the list of talks.
Meetings normally run from 16.00 until 17.30 on Thursdays, with some exceptions noted below. Please note that when the meetings take place in the Old Divinity School, St John’s College, it is important to arrive in good time (otherwise you may not gain access to the building).
Lent Term 2024.
- Date: Thursday, 25 January
Speaker: Chris Oldfield (Cambridge)
Time and location: 4:30pm-6pm, Old Divinity School Teaching Room 1 (St. John’s College)
Title: “Mereology Naturalized? Not Yet”
- Date: Thursday, 8 February 2024
Speaker: Will Hornett (Cambridge)
Time and location: 4:30pm-6pm, Faculty Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy
Title: “Perceptual Capacities and the ‘Mosaic of Sensations’”
- Date: Thursday, 15 February 2024
Speaker: Chiara Martini (Cambridge)
Time and location: 5pm-6:30pm, Faculty Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy
Title: “Solving Some Problems in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Geometry”
- Date: Thursday, 22 February 2024
Speaker: Helene Scott-Fordsmand (Cambridge)
Time and location: 5pm-6:30pm, Faculty Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy
Title: tbd
Abstract: tbd
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*CANCELLED * Date: Thursday, 29 February 2024 *CANCELLED*
Speaker: Henrik Sherling (Cambridge)
Time and location: 5pm-6:30pm, Faculty Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy
Title: tbd
Abstract: tbd
- Date: Thursday, 7 March 2024
Speaker: Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge)
Time and location: 5pm-6:30pm, Faculty Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy
Title: tbd
Abstract: tbd
- Date: Thursday, 14 March 2024
Speaker: Kamil Majcherek (Cambridge)
Time and location: 4pm-5:30pm, Faculty Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy
Title: tbd
Abstract: tbd
Archive
Michaelmas Term 2023
Th 5 October Alexander Bird
Faculty Board Room, Faulty of Philosophy
“Naturalized Knowledge-First and the Epistemology of Groups”
Th 12 October Nathan Cofnas
Teaching Room 1, Old Divinity School, St John’s College
Start time 16.30
“Is Evolution Directed?”
Th 19 October Robert Northcott (Birkbeck)
Teaching Room 1, Old Divinity School, St John’s College
“Science for a fragile world”
Th 26 October Milena Ivanova (HPS)
Teaching Room 2, Old Divinity School, St John’s College
“What Makes an Experiment Beautiful?”
Th 2 November TBC
Th 9 November Christopher Masterman
Teaching Room 1, Old Divinity School, St John’s College
Start time 16.30
Th 16 November Sophie Dandelet
Teaching Room 1, Old Divinity School, St John’s College
Th 23 November Michael Potter
Teaching Room 1, Old Divinity School, St John’s College
Th 30 November Daniel Andler
Faculty Board Room, Faulty of Philosophy
Abstracts
Alexander Bird
“Naturalized Knowledge-First and the Epistemology of Groups”
On the basis of a naturalized approach to knowledge-first epistemology, this paper makes a case for a knowledge-first account of the epistemology of groups. It then contrasts this with Jennifer Lackey's (2021) account of group epistemology.
Nathan Cofnas
“Is Evolution Directed?”
I argue that evolution is undirected, and that this has implications for how natural selection is conceived.
Robert Northcott
“Science for a fragile world”
Imagine two worlds. In one, causal relations and mechanisms hold reliably across many cases; laws are unchanging. In the second world, by contrast, these things are fragile, holding only unreliably: just because one thing causes another over there doesn’t mean that it causes it over here. Much of our world is like the second world. I will discuss some consequences of this.
Milena Ivanova
“What Makes an Experiment Beautiful?”
Scientific products are often celebrated for their aesthetic dimension and compared to works of art. Scientists themselves, like artists, are praised for their creativity, originality and aesthetic sensibility. In this talk I explore the aesthetic dimension of scientific experiments, from experiments performed in the early years of the Royal Society, to contemporary experiments involving complex technologies and set ups, and ask: what makes an experiment beautiful? By focusing on historical case studies as well as qualitative data collected from interviewing over 200 contemporary scientists, I identify what is aesthetically valued in the lab and what role beauty plays in experimental practice.
Recent SMG Termcards
Easter 2023 Termcard
| 27 April | Farbod Akhlaghi (Cambridge) |
Grounding and the Naturalism/Non-Naturalism Debate in Meta-Ethics |
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| 4 May |
No meeting |
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11 May |
Adham El Shazly (Cambridge) |
Communicating Understanding
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| 18 May | Nadia ben Hassine (Cambridge) |
Finding Better Meanings: The Argument from Many Alternatives |
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| 25 May | Marcus Ackermann (Cambridge) |
A B-theoretical ‘metaphysical indeterminacy’- account of the open future |
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1 June |
Neil McDonnell (Glasgow) |
Causation in the Privileged Context |
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| Monday 5 June (16.00) | Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland) and James Norton (University of Iceland, University of Sydney) |
Understanding Philosophical Progress |
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Lent 2023 Termcard
| 19 January | Marta Halina (Cambridge) |
Folk Psychology and Scientific Understanding |
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| 26 January |
Will Hornett (Cambridge) |
Forms of Agency |
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2 February |
David Sosa (University of Texas, Austin) |
Getting Closure on the Sorites |
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| 9 February | Cancelled - strike action | |||||||||
| 16 February | Cancelled - strike action |
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23 February |
Julian Nida-Rümelin (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) |
Cooperation and structural rationality |
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2 March |
Alice Harberd (UCL) |
Insight in Art: a balancing act |
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9 March |
Anneli Jefferson (Cardiff) |
The problem with accounts of blame |
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Michaelmas 2022 Termcard
| 6 October | Neil Dewar (Cambridge) |
Probability De Dicto and De Re |
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| 13 October |
Alexander Bird (Cambridge) |
Evidentialism, Justification, and Knowledge-First |
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20 October |
Sandra Lindblom (Cambridge) |
Cause Equals Effect |
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| 27 October | Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Leibniz Universität Hannover) |
Objectivity, Value-Free Science, and Inductive Risk |
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3 November |
Cecily Whiteley (Cambridge) |
Natural Kinds of Sleep Experience |
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10 November |
Emily Caddick Bourne (Manchester) |
How it can be that a quasi-miracle would not happen, but might, and does
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17 November |
Louise Antony (University of Massachusetts) |
Against Amelioration, or, Don't Call a Conceptual Engineer Without Talking to Me First |
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24 November Cancelled - strike action |
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Easter 2022 Termcard
| 11 May |
Adham El Shazly (Cambridge) |
Noetic understanding | ||||||||
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18 May |
Ina Jäntgen (Cambridge) |
How to measure effect sizes for rational decision-making |
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| 25 May |
Andreas Hüttemann (Cologne) |
Modal aspects of laws and models |
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01 June |
Brian Hedden (ANU) |
Counterfactual decision theory |
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Lent 2022 Termcard
| 26 January | Benjamin Marschall (Cambridge) and Wouter Cohen (Cambridge) | Would Carnap Have Tolerated Sider? | ||||||||
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2 February |
No meeting |
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| 9 February |
Alex Fisher (Cambridge) |
Millianism and Empty Names |
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16 February |
Jonathan Knowles (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) |
Anti-representationalism without expressivism |
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| 23 February | Mark Jago (Nottingham) |
Metaphysical Structure |
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| 2 March |
Nadine Elzein (Warwick) |
Time Travel and Failed Assassination Attempts | ||||||||
| 9 March |
Ian Rumfitt (Oxford) |
Meaning and Speech Acts | ||||||||
| 16 March |
Joaquim Giannotti (Birmingham) |
Brutalism: Moderate and Radical | ||||||||
Michaelmas 2021 Termcard
| 13 October |
Alex Moran (Oxford) |
Ground physicalism and contingent metaphysical laws | ||||||||
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20 October |
Aiden Woodcock (Cambridge) |
A Rejoinder to Pettigrew's Argument for Symmetry |
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| 27 October |
No meeting |
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| 3 November |
Wolfgang Schwarz (Edinburgh) |
Believing without evidence |
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10 November |
Anna Mahtani (LSE) |
Contextualism and Awareness Growth |
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| 17 November | François Recanati (Collège de France) | Shared Modes of Presentation? | ||||||||
| 24 November | Johannes Wagner (Cambridge) | Spinoza's Essentialism: Platonic Forms of Singular Things | ||||||||
| 1 December | No meeting | |||||||||
Easter 2021 Termcard
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05 May (week 1) |
Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
Inescapable Concepts |
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19 May (week 3) |
Boris Kment (Princeton) |
Ground and paradox |
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02 June (week 5) |
Dee Payton (Rutgers) |
The ways we are |
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16 June (week 7) |
Annina Loets (Humboldt Berlin) |
Simple and Strong? Plenitude Costed |
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Lent 2021 Termcard
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27 January (week 1) |
Jessica Leech (KCL) |
Relative necessity redefended |
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3 February (week 2) |
Wouter Cohen (Cambridge) |
Frege on existence |
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10 February (week 3) |
Thomas Schindler (Bristol) |
Deflationary theories of properties and their ontology |
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17 February (week 4) |
Cancelled |
Cancelled |
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24 February (week 5) |
Sofía Meléndez-Gutiérrez (Cambridge) |
Reference, instantiation, and the ontology of fictional entities |
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| 3 March (week 6) | Jessica Wilson (Toronto) |
Identity and relative fundamentality |
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10 March (week 7) |
Sophie Allen (Keele) |
Problems with the merely possible: actualism, naturalism and unmanifested dispositions |
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17 March (week 8) |
Dolf Rami (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) | Discriminating views of existence: two overlooked varieties | ||||||||
Michaelmas 2020 Termcard
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14 October (week 1) |
No Meeting |
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21 October (week 2) |
Owen Griffiths (Cambridge) |
The collapse of logical pluralism |
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28 October (week 3) |
Mat Simpson (Cambridge) |
Universal generalisations and belief causation |
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4 November (week 4) |
Benjamin Marschall (Cambridge) |
Quine on ontology and the primacy of truth |
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11 November (week 5) |
Tim Button (UCL) |
Metaphysicians hate this one simple trick for avoiding universals, but they can't stop you using it! |
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| 18 November (week 6) | Barbara Vetter (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Essence, potentiality, and modality
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25 November (week 7) |
Alex Fisher (Cambridge) |
Truth in interactive fiction
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Lent 2020 Termcard
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January 22nd (week 1) |
Lukas Skiba (Hamburg) |
'From Higher-Order Modal Logic to Necessitism?’ |
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January 29th (week 2) |
Emanuel Viebahn (HU Berlin) |
'Insincerity in Linguistic and Pictorial Communication’ |
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February 5th (week 3) |
Matt Farr (Cambridge) |
'Do we need to explain initial conditions?’ |
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February 12th (week 4) |
Alexander Roberts (Cambridge) |
‘Theories of Necessity' |
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February 19th (week 5) |
James Cargile (Virginia) |
‘Russell’s Paradox’ |
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| February 26th (week 6) |
CANCELLED Ben Brast-Mckie (Oxford) |
‘Identity and Aboutness’ |
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March 4th (week 7) |
CANCELLED Annina Loets (Oxford) |
'Aspect Theories of Qualification’ |
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March 11th (week 8) |
CANCELLED Owen Griffiths (Cambridge) |
'The Collapse of Logical Pluralism’ |
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Michaelmas 2019 Termcard
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October 16th (week 1) |
Hugh Mellor (Cambridge) |
The True Causes and Effects |
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October 23rd (week 2) |
Bryan Roberts (LSE) |
Causation when time unfolds in the wrong direction |
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October 30th (week 3) |
Hasok Chang (Cambridge) |
The Pragmatic Meaning of Reality [Time and room change: 3-4:30pm, Postgraduate Common Room] |
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November 6th (week 4)
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Roland Krause (HU Berlin) |
Wittgenstein's verification of verificationionism |
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November 13th (week 5) |
Kenny Walden (Dartmouth) |
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| November 20th (week 6) |
Tom McClelland (Cambridge) |
Attention & Attendabilia: An Affordance Theory of Salience |
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November 27th (week 7) |
CANCELLED |
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December 4th (week 8) |
CANCELLED |
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Easter 2019 Termcard
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1st May |
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Professor University of Oxford) |
On a certain conception of metaphysical necessity |
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8th May |
Andrew Sepielli |
On the Superficiality of Normative Ethics |
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15th May |
Peter van Inwagen |
Two Problems for a Truth-centered Ontology |
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22nd May
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Matthew Kramer |
On the Mind-Independence of Legal Norms |
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29th May |
Aaron Hanlon (Associate Professor at Colby College) |
Literary Studies Needs an Epistemology, and Philosophy Can Help |
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| 5th June |
Sahanika Ratnayake (Cambridge PhD student) |
How Should We Understand 'The Shoulds'?: Contemporary Psychotherapy and Normative |
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12th June |
Wesley Wrigley |
Is the concept natural number vague? |
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Lent 2019 Termcard
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23rd January |
Hugh Mellor (Cambridge) and |
Conditionals: Truth and Safety |
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30th January |
David Oderberg |
Evil, Negative Being, and Truthmakers |
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6th February |
Li Li Tan |
On visual categorisation and recognition |
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13th February
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Raamy Majeed |
The Indeterminacy of Unconscious Belief |
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20th February |
Benjamin Marschall |
Carnap’s Internal Platonism |
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| 27th February |
Jeroen Smid (rescheduled) |
Aggregates and their role in the problem of coincident objects |
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6th March |
Nick Treanor |
The (Serious) Metaphysics of Epistemic Normativity |
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13th March |
Yael Loewenstein |
Heim Sequences and Why Most Unqualified 'Would'-Counterfactuals are Not True |
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Michaelmas 2018 Termcard
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10th October |
Penelope Mackie (Associate Professor at The University of Nottingham) |
Essentialism and context-dependence: a New Argument against Lewisian Counterpart Theory |
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17th October |
Jonathan Schaffer (Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University) |
Heavy Ontology, Light Ideology |
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24th October |
Owen Griffiths and Arif Ahmed (Cambridge University) |
Inner and outer harmony |
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31st October (note: talk cancelled) |
Jeroen Smid (Post-doc at Manchester University) |
Aggregates and their role in the problem of coincident objects |
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7th November |
Rachel Robertson (PhD student at Cambridge University) |
Embodied Agency in Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science |
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| 14th November |
Nakul Krishna (Cambridge University) |
Scepticism, Pessimism, Mitigation: The Amoralist in the 1950s |
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21st November |
Richard Gaskin (Professor at University of Liverpool) |
Reference and Propositions |
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28th November |
Alex Jackson (Associate Professor from Boise State University) |
Vagueness, Relativism, and Realism |
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Easter 2018 Termcard
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25th April |
Andreas Stokke | Modal Metarepresentation | ||||||||
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2nd May |
Ali Boyle |
Animalism, Dicephalus Twinning, and Biological Individuation |
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9th May |
Nora Heizelmann |
Weakness of Will as a Cognitive Bias |
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16th May |
Kyle Mitchell |
From Pragmatism to Easy Ontology—and Back Again |
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23rd May |
Nathan Hawkins | Paired Quantified Modal Logic | ||||||||
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30th May |
Kasia Jaszczolt |
Time: From Semantics to Metaphysics |
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6th June |
Alastair Wilson |
Emergent Contingency |
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13th June |
Rachel Fraser |
An Ontology of Narrative Belief |
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Lent 2018 Termcard
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24th January |
Tim Button |
A Dogma of Metaphysics |
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31st January |
Jack Lyons |
Toward a solution to the generality problem for reliabilism |
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7th February |
Dorothy Edgington |
Indeterminacy and Conditionals |
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14th February |
Bart Streumer |
Reduction without Supervenience |
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21st February |
Jonathan Shaheen |
Cavendish's Mereology |
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28th February |
Nakul Krishna |
*Cancelled* |
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7th March |
Ali Boyle |
*Cancelled* |
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14th March |
Brian Pitts |
*Cancelled* |
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Michaelmas 2017 Termcard
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11th October |
Alexander Bird |
“Fundamental Powers, Evolved Powers, and Mental Powers” |
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18th October |
Emanuel Viebahn |
“Deceptive presuppositions” |
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25th October |
John Marenbon |
“Avicenna and Duns Scotus on Universals” |
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1st November |
Alex Moran |
"Material Things, Russell's Principle and 'Grounding-Qua'" |
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8th November |
Hugh Mellor |
“Chances and Conditionals” |
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15th November |
Christian List |
“Levels: descriptive, explanatory, and ontological” |
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22nd November |
Anthony Fisher |
“Thingification in Trope Theory” |
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29th November |
Matt Farr |
“Explaining Temporal Qualia” |
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Easter 2017 Termcard
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27 April 2017 |
Joe Dewhurst (Edinburgh) |
Folk Psychology and the Bayesian Brain |
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4 May 2017 |
Sarah Sawyer (Sussex) |
Concepts, Conceptions, and Self-Knowledge |
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11 May 2017 |
Juliet Griffin (Cambridge Psychiatry) |
Does the Free Energy Principle Have a Motivation Problem? |
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18 May 2017 |
Rachel Robertson (Cambridge) |
Kant's Theory of Embodiment |
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25 May 2017 |
Annika Boeddeling (Cambridge) |
Towards a Non-Metaphysical Explanatory Strategy for Quietists |
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1 June 2017 |
Katie Robertson (Cambridge) |
TBC |
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Lent 2017 Termcard
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19 January 2017 |
Adaum Caulton (Oxford) |
In what sense is quantum field theory a theory of fields? |
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26 January 2017 |
Sean Fleming (Cambridge) |
How to Interpret Action-Sentences about States |
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2 February 2017 |
Ralph Weir (Cambridge) |
The Compresence Relation: A Challenge for Property Dualism |
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9 February 2017 |
Wes Wrigley (Cambridge) |
Sider's Ontologese Introduction Instructions |
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16 February 2017 |
Paul Fletcher (Cambridge) | Rethinking schizophrenia within a predictive coding framework" | ||||||||
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23 February 2017 |
Verena Wagner (Konstanz) |
Glitterfree Fredom |
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2 March 2017 |
Hugh Mellor (Cambridge) |
Properties of Chance | ||||||||
| 9 March 2017 | Robin Le Poidevin |
Stereoscopy: some aesthetic - and ontological - issues |
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Michaelmas 2016 Termcard
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6 October 2016 |
John Broome (Oxford) |
Reason fundamentalism and what is wrong with it |
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13 October 2016 |
Natalja Deng |
Does temporal ontology exist? |
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20 October 2016 |
James Hutton |
Emotion as sensitivity to value: the implementation problem |
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27 October 2016 |
Raamy Majeed |
The Cognitive Impenetrability of Recalcitrant Emotions |
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3 November 2016 |
Tim Button | I Disappear | ||||||||
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10 November 2016 |
Ori Beck |
Rethinking Naive Realism |
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17 November 2016 |
Jessica Leech (King's) |
Against logical essence | ||||||||
| 24 November 2016 | Luke Cash |
TBC |
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Easter 2016 Termcard
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21 April 2016 |
Henry Taylor |
Powerful Qualities and Pure Powers: What's the difference? |
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28 April 2016 |
Alexander Greenberg |
TBC |
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5 May 2016 |
Barry Maguire (UNC) |
There are No Reasons for Attitudes |
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12 May 2016 |
Sahanika Ratnayake |
Multiple Persons |
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19 May 2016 |
Carlo Rossi | TBC | ||||||||
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26 May 2016 |
Wes Wrigley |
Sider's Ontologese Introduction Instructions |
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2 June 2016 |
Stephen Duxbury |
The Reduction of Modality to Essence | ||||||||
| 9 June 2016 | Dan Brigham |
No Nonsense |
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17 June 2016 |
Murali Ramachandran |
Knowledge-to-Fact Reasoning: Towards a Unified Solution to the Prediction Paradox* *Organised by Arif Ahmed, if you have any questions please email ama24. |
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Lent 2016 Termcard
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14 January 2016 |
Louise Hanson |
The Real Problem with Evolutionary Debunking Arguments |
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21 January 2016 |
Margot Strohminger (Antwerp) |
Perceptual Knowledge of Nonactual Possibilities* |
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28 January 2016 |
Christopher Mole (UBC) |
Beauty is Objective |
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4 February 2016 |
Max Hayward |
Practical Reason, Sympathy, and Reactive Attitudes |
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11 February 2016 |
Michael Blome-Tillman | TBC | ||||||||
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18 February 2016 |
Hugh Mellor |
Growing Block Theories of Time |
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25 February 2016 |
Kyle Mitchell |
TBC | ||||||||
| 3 March 2016 | Simona Aimar (UCL) |
Disposition Ascriptions as Possibility Ascriptions |
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*In conjunction with the New Directions in the Study of the Mind Project.
Michaelmas 2015 Termcard
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8 October 2015 |
Bence Nanay |
Affective Considerations in Meta-metaphysics |
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15 October 2015 |
Huw Price |
The End of the World |
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22 October 2015 |
Philip Gerrans (Adelaide) |
A Processing Account of Emotion |
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29 October 2015 |
Alex Moran |
On the Thinking Parts Problem |
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5 November 2015 |
Tim Crane | The Significance of Behaviourism | ||||||||
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12 November 2015 |
Rae Langton |
After Words: The Being in Time of Speech Acts |
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19 November 2015 |
Fiona Doherty |
The Ontology of Abstraction |
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| 26 November 2015 | Arif Ahmed |
TBC |
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Easter 2015 Termcard
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23 April 2015 |
Hugh Mellor |
Truthmaking vs Physicalism |
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30 April 2015 |
Natalja Deng |
Religion for Atheists |
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7 May 2015 |
Heather Dyke |
Invoking Evolutionary Explanations: Relief and other temporal experiences |
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14 May 2015 |
Toby Friend | Can parts cause their wholes? | ||||||||
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21 May 2015 |
Carlo Rossi |
TBC | ||||||||
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28 May 2015 |
Fredrik Nyseth |
Could the Source of Modality Be Contingent? |
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4 June 2015 |
Kyle Mitchell |
Rejecting 'Everything' |
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11 June 2015 |
Annika Boeddeling |
TBC |
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Lent 2015 Termcard
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15 January 2015 |
Piotr Szalek |
The Minimal Definition of Goodness and the Problem of Generalisation |
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22 January 2015 |
Alex Moran |
Dion's Foot and Aristotle's Hand: A New Solution to the Paradox of Decrease |
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29 January 2015 |
Gábor Betegh |
Colocation |
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5 February 2015 |
John Heil |
Causal Relations |
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12 February 2015 |
Jossi Berkovitz |
A New Interpretation of De Finetti's Theory of Subjective Probability |
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19 February 2015 |
Adam Bales |
Decision-theoretic impossibility proofs: an impossibility proof |
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26 February 2015 |
Luz Seiberth |
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5 March 2015 |
Alison Fernandes |
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Michaelmas 2014 Termcard
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9 October 2014 |
Daniel Brigham |
Russell’s Multiple-Relation Theory of Judgement and its Critics |
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16 October 2014 |
Cheryl Misak |
Ramsey and Wittgenstein on Generalizations and Hypotheses, circa 1929 |
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23 October 2014 |
Alexis Papazoglou |
Naturalism and the Quest for Unity |
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30 October 2014 |
Mat Simpson |
Dispositions and General Beliefs |
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6 November 2014 |
Ali Boyle |
The Cognitive Significance of Mirror Self-Recognition |
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13 November 2014 |
Tuomas Tahko |
Fundamentality and Ontological Well-foundedness |
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20 November 2014 |
Fiona Doherty |
How Frege would object to the Neo-Logicist |
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27 November 2014 |
Adrian Boutel |
Downward Causation Without Tears |
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Easter 2014 Termcard
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30 April 2014 |
Daniel Gregory (ANU) - Inner Speech: Phenomenology, Pragmatics and Imagination |
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7 May 2014 |
Ali Boyle - Self-awareness |
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14 May 2014 |
Jonathan Birch - Punishment, Coordination and the Psychology of Norms |
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20 May 2014 |
Georgie Statham - Causal claims in organic chemistry |
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28 May 2014 |
Stephen Mumford (Nottingham) - Understanding Causation by Way of Failure |
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4 June 2014 |
Lukas Skiba - Modal Fictionalism |
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11 June 2014 |
Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck) |
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Lent 2014 Termcard
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22 January 2014 |
David Etlin (Munich) |
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29 January 2014 |
TBC |
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5 February 2014 |
Irena Cronin (UCLA) |
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12 February 2014 |
Rae Langton |
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19 February 2014 |
TBC |
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26 February 2014 |
Lucy Campbell |
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5 March 2014 |
Paulina Sliwa |
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12 March 2014 |
Alison Fernandes (Columbia) |
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16 October 2013 |
Karen Crowther - Effective spacetime |
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23 October 2013 |
Luke Fenton-Glynn (UCL) - Ceteris Paribus Laws and Minutis Rectis Laws |
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30 October 2013 |
Tim Button - Truth |
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6 November 2013 |
Ella Whiteley - Human nature, dispositions, and gender |
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13 November 2013 |
Dan Brigham - Facts |
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20 November 2013 |
Shyane Siriwardena - Agency Theory of Causation |
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27 November 2013 |
Fiona Doherty - Abstraction Principles |
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4 December 2013 |
Lucy Campbell - Practical Knowledge |
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1 May 2013 |
Jeremy Butterfield - Renormalization for Philosophers |
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8 May 2013 |
Christopher Clarke - On the Alleged Indispensability of Social, Psychological and Biological Explanations |
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15 May 2013 |
John Williams (Singapore) - Eliminativism, Dialetheism and Moore’s Paradox |
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22 May 2013 |
Kevin Mulligan (Geneva) - Explanation in Metaphysics |
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29 May 2013 |
Richard Teague - TBA |
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5 June 2013 |
Simon Evnine (Miami) - TBA |
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12 June 2013 |
Kyle Mitchell - TBA |
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23 January 2013 |
Adam Caulton - Theoretical Analyticity, Revisited |
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30 January 2013 |
Will Davies - Colour Constancy and Discrimination |
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6 February 2013 |
Emily Thomas - Why Not to Reject Cartesian Dualism |
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13 February 2013 |
Carl Rossi - Defining Endurance |
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20 February 2013 |
Brian Hedden (Oxford) - Time-Slice Rationality |
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27 February 2013 |
Karen Crowther - Novelty and Autonomy as Alternatives to, or Bases for, a Conception of Emergence in Physics |
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6 March 2013 |
Mat Simpson - Wilfrid Sellars and Ostrich Nominalism |
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13 March 2013 |
Lukas Skiba - On Indirect Sense and Reference |
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10 October 2012 |
Tim Crane - Things that don't exist |
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17 October 2012 |
Tamer Nawar - Truth and Epistemic Value |
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24 October 2012 |
James Cargile (Virginia) - Identity |
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31 October 2012 |
Alexander Greenberg - Maps by which we steer |
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7 November 2012 |
Daniel Brigham - Propositional Attitudes and Attitudes to Propositions |
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14 November 2012 |
John Maier - The Metaphysics of Ignorance |
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21 November 2012 |
Brian Pitts - How Almost Everything in Space-time Theory is Illuminated by Simple Particle Physics: The Neglected Case of Massive Scalar Gravity |
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28 November 2012 |
Shyane Siriwardena - The Suppositional Theory and Morgenbesser Counterfactuals |
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25 April 2012 |
Prof. John Marenbon |
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2 May 2012 |
Prof. Richard Holton |
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9 May 2012 |
Kyle Mitchell |
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16 May 2012 |
Prof. Justin Broackes |
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30 May 2012 |
Prof. Hugh Mellor |
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16 January 2012 |
Jeremy Butterfield |
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23 January 2012 |
Robert Northcott |
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30 January 2012 |
Yohan Joo |
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6 February 2012 |
Allan Hazlett |
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13 February 2012 |
Bence Nanay |
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20 February 2012 |
Shyane Siriwardena |
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27 February 2012 |
Daniel Brigham |
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5 March 2012 |
Max Hummel |
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12 October 2011 |
Alexis Papazoglou |
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19 October 2011 |
Jody Azzouni |
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26 October 2011 |
Peter Smith |
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2 November 2011 |
Fraser MacBride |
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9 November 2011 |
Alexander Greenberg |
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16 November 2011 |
Shyane Siriwardena |
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23 November 2011 |
Jonathan Birch |
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30 November 2011 |
Tamar Nawar |
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13 October 2010 |
Fraser MacBride |
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20 October 2010 |
Nathan Wildman |
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27 October 2010 |
Phyllis Illari |
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3 November 2010 |
Nick Jones |
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10 November 2010 |
Duen-Min Deng |
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17 November 2010 |
Markku Keinänen |
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24 November 2010 |
Josh Parsons |
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1 December 2010 |
Sam Coleman |
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20 Jan 2010 |
Luca Incurvati - Iterative Conception and Metaphysical Dependence |
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27 Jan 2010 |
Fraser MacBride - Relations and Truth-Making |
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10 Feb 2010 |
Gemma Murray - Is Quantum Mechanics about Quantum Information? |
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17 Feb 2010 |
Duen-Min Deng - Wiggins' Individuative Essentialism |
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24 Feb 2010 |
Nathan Wildman - Hume's Dictum and Non-mereological composition: Lewis against Armstrong's States of Affairs |
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3 March 2010 |
Emily Thomas - Mereological nihilism in a gunky world |
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10 March 2010 |
Hugh Mellor - Successful Semantics |
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28 April 2010 |
Daniel Nolan - She's Really Happening |
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5 May 2010 |
John Wright - Explaining the Novel Predictive Success of Science Without Realism or Truth |
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13 May 2010 |
Helen Beebee - What's So Scientific About Scientific Essentialism? |
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2 June 2010 |
Gemma Murray - Chance in Empirical Theories |
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9 June 2010 |
Adam Caulton - Weak Discernibility, But Of What? |
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