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The Serious Metaphysics Group (SMG) will be meeting in the Faculty of Philosophy Board Room between 1.00 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. on Thursdays during the 2015/16 academic year 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 convoker of the SMG is Dan Williams. Please email Dan (dw473 at cam.ac.uk) if you would like to give a paper, or to subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) the mailing list. (If you are subscribed to CamPhilEvents, you will already receive emails about this group.)
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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Recent SMG Termcards
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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