Spring 2024 Session
COMING SOON
21:30 - 23:30 EST
sine tempore
Every Saturday
sine tempore
Every Saturday
May 4
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Øystein Linnebo (2024). Reality as Tall and Fine, Not Flat and Coarse. In Peter Fritz and Nicholas K. Jones (Eds.), Higher-Order Metaphysics.
Bruno Whittle (2022). The Iterative Solution to Paradoxes for Propositions. Philosophical Studies 180. |
May 11
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May 18
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TBD
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May 25
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June 1
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David Builes (2020). A Paradox of Evidential Equivalence. Mind 129.
Cian Dorr, John Hawthorne, and Yoaav Isaacs (2021). Solving a Paradox of Evidential Equivalence. Mind 130. |
June 8
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TBD
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June 15
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June 22
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TBD
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June 29
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TBD
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PAST SESSIONS
Fall 2023 Session
21:30 - 23:30 EST
sine tempore
Every Saturday
sine tempore
Every Saturday
September 30
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Cian Dorr (2014). Quantifier Variance and the Collapse Theorems. The Monist 97.
Download Handout: handout_dorr__quantifier_variance_and_collapse__1_.pdf |
We are changing the next session (and the next session only) from the original time to
19:30 - 21:30 EST, October 07.
Thanks to the presenter for flexibility.
19:30 - 21:30 EST, October 07.
Thanks to the presenter for flexibility.
October 07
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Theodore Sider (2023). The New Collapse Argument against Quantifier Variance. The Monist 106.
Jared Warren (2021). Quantifier Variance, Semantic Collapse, and "Genuine" Quantifiers. Philosophical Studies 179. Download Handout: dorr__quantifier_variance_and_collapse_handout_finished.pdf |
October 14
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Martina Botti (2021). Composition as Analysis: The Meta-Ontological Origins (and Future) of Composition as Identity. Synthese 198.
Download Handout: handout_composition_as_analysis___by_martina_botti_binghegong.pdf |
October 28
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Andrew Bacon (2023). A Theory of Structured Propositions. Philosophical Review 132.
Download Handout: structura_handout.pdf |
November 04
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Øystein Linnebo (2022). Generality Explained. Journal of Philosophy 119.
Download Handout: generality_explained_handout.pdf |
November 11
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Cian Seán Dorr, John Hawthorne, and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri (2021). The Bounds of Possibility: Puzzles of Modal Variation. §§ 14 & 15.
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November 18
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Peter Fritz and Jeremy Goodman (2016). Higher-Order Contingentism, Part 1: Closure and Generation. Journal of Philosophical Logic 45.
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November 25
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Fabrice Correia and Giovanni Merlo (forthcoming). Cross‐temporal grounding. Analytic Philosophy.
Download Handout: handout_1126-1.pdf |
December 02
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Andrew Bacon (2013). Quantificational Logic and Empty Names. Philosophers' Imprint 13.
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December 09
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Hannes Leitgeb (2023). Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy. Review of Symbolic Logic 16.
Background & Further Reading:
David Lewis (1970). How to Define Theoretical Terms. Journal of Philosophy 67. |
Spring 2023 Session
10:30 - 12:30 EST
sine tempore
Every Saturday
sine tempore
Every Saturday
March 25
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Background & Further Reading:
Kit Fine (2016). Identity Criteria and Ground. Philosophical Studies 173. Isaac Wilhelm (2020). An Argument for Entity Grounding. Analysis 80. Samuel Elgin (MS), Definition by Proxy. |
We are changing the next session from the original time to 21:30 - 23:30 EST, March 31. Thanks to the presenter for flexibility.
April 01
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Kevin Dorst and Matthew Mandelkern (2023). Good Guesses. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 105.
Download Handout: structura_good_guesses_handout.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Isaac Levi (1967). Gambling with Truth: An Essay on Induction and the Aims of Science. Cambridge: MIT Press. John Hawthorne, Daniel Rothschild, and Levi Spectre (2016). Belief is Weak. Philosophical Studies 173. Richard Pettigrew (2016). Jamesian Epistemology Formalised: An Explication of ‘The Will to Believe’. Episteme 13. Ben Holguin (2022). Thinking, Guessing, and Believing. Philosophers' Imprint 22. |
April 08
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Tim Button (Forthcoming). Symmetric Relations, Symmetric Theories, and Pythagrapheanism. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Download Handout: symmetric_relations_symmetric_theories_and_pythagrapheanism.pdf |
April 22
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Daniel Hoek (2022). Questions in Action. Journal of Philosophy 119.
Download Handout: handout_question_in_action.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Daniel Hoek (forthcoming). Minimal Rationality and the Web of Questions. In Unstructured Content, Dirk Kindermann, Peter van Elswyk and Andy Egan (Eds.). |
April 29
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Friederike Moltmann (forthcoming). Truthmaking, Satisfaction and the Force-Content Distinction. In Force, Content, and the Unity of the Proposition, Gabriele Mras and Michael Schmitz (Eds.).
Download Handout: 命题与使真.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Moltmann, Friederike (2022). Attitudinal Objects and Propositions. In The Routledge Handbook of Propositions, Chris Tillman and Adam Murray (Eds.). Fine, Kit (2017). Truthmaker Semantics. In A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Bob Hale, Crispin Wright, and Alexander Miller (Eds.). Fine, Kit (2020). Yablo on Subject-Matter. Philosophical Studies 177. Jago, Mark (2022). Truthmaker Accounts of Propositions. In The Routledge Handbook of Propositions, Chris Tillman and Adam Murray (Eds.). |
May 06
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David Builes and Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello (Forthcoming). An Empirical Argument for Presentism. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics.
David Builes and Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello (Forthcoming). Experience and Time: A Metaphysical Approach. Analytic Philosophy. Background & Further Reading:
David Builes (2019). Self-Locating Evidence and the Metaphysics of Time. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99. David Builes (2022). Look at the Time! Analysis 82. |
May 27
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Kim Dongwoo (MS). Truthmaker Semantics for Modal Logic, Parts 1 and 2. In Necessity, Essence and Analyticity: Toward an Analytic Essentialist Account of Necessity. Dissertation.
Download Handout: tmsforml.pdf |
June 03
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Michaela McSweeney (2022). Maladjustment. Philosophical Studies 180.
Download Handout: maladjustment_handout.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Michel Foucault (2006/1961). Madness and Civilization. J. Khalfa (Ed.), J. Murphy and J. Khalfa (Trans.), Routledge. Allen J Frances and Thomas Widiger (2012). Psychiatric diagnoses: Lessons from the DSM-IV past and cautions for the DSM-5 future. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 8. Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas (2022). The Limits of the Doxastic. In Uriah Kriegel (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind 2. Oxford University Press. |
June 1122:00 - 24:00 EST
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Frank Arntzenius (2012). Space, Time, and Stuff §5, "Do Space and Time Exist?".
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June 18
22:00 - 24:00 EST
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Goodman, Jeremy (Forthcoming). Higher-order Logic as Metaphysics. In Peter Fritz and Jones Nicholas (Eds.), Higher-Order Metaphysics. Oxford University Press.
Background & Further Reading:
Dorr, Cian (2016). To Be F Is To Be G. Philosophical Perspectives 30. Bacon, Andrew (Forthcoming). A Theory of Structured Propositions. Philosophical Review. |
Fall 2022 Session
Modality: via Zoom
Time: (After Nov 6) 10:30-12:00 GMT+8, Every Saturday
Time: (After Nov 6) 10:30-12:00 GMT+8, Every Saturday
October 08
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Daniel Fogal and Olle Risberg (2020). The Metaphysics of Moral Explanations. Oxford Studies in Metaethics 15.
Download Handout: handout-moral_explanation.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Selim Berker (2019). The Explanatory Ambitions of Moral Principles. Noûs 53. Martin Glazier (2016). Laws and the Completeness of the Fundamental.In Reality Making, Mark Jago (Ed.). Tristram McPherson (2012). Ethical Non-Naturalism and the Metaphysics of Supervenience. Oxford Studies in Metaethics 7. Gideon Rosen (2017). What is a Moral Law? Oxford Studies in Metaethics 12. |
October 15
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David Wallace (2022). Observability, Redundancy and Modality for Dynamical Symmetry Transformations. In James Read and Nicholas J. Teh (Eds.),The Philosophy and Physics of Noether's Theorems: A Centenary Volume.
Download Handout: wallace.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Gordon Belot (2013). Symmetry and Equivalence. In Robert Batterman (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics. Gordon Belot (2018). Fifty Million Elvis Fans Can't be Wrong. Noûs 52. David Wallace (2022). Isolated Systems and their Symmetries, Part I: General Framework and Particle-Mechanics Examples. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 92. David Wallace (2022). Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and Global Symmetries of Field Theories. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 92. |
October 29
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Maegan Fairchild (forthcoming). Symmetry and Hybrid Contingentism. In Peter Fritz and Nicholas K. Jones (Eds.), Higher-order Metaphysics. Oxford University Press
Download Handout: fairchild.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Andrew Bacon, John Hawthorne, and Gabriel Uzquiano (2016). Higher-order Free Logic and the Prior-Kaplan Paradox. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46. Jeremy Goodman (2016). Williamson on Necessitism. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46. (§I) Lukas Skiba (2022). In Defence of Hybrid Contingentism. Philosophers' Imprint 22. Timothy Williamson (2013). Modal Logic as Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (§6) |
November 5
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Christopher Morgan-Knapp (2022). Fairness, Individuality, and Free Riding. Philosophical Quarterly 72.
Background & Further Reading:
Andrew Levine (1995). Fairness to Idleness is There A Right Not to Work? Economics and Philosophy, 11. |
November 12
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Jessica Leech (2021). From Essence to Necessity via Identity. Mind 130.
Download Handout: handout-qichen.pptx |
November 19
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Andrew Bacon (Forthcoming). Counterfactuals, Infinity and Paradox. In Federico L. G. Faroldi and Frederik Van De Putte (Eds.), Outstanding Contributions to Logic: Kit Fine.
Download Handout: bacon_on_counterfactuals.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Kit Fine (2012). Counterfactuals Without Possible Worlds. The Journal of Philosophy 109. |
November 26
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Thomas N.P.A. Brouwer (Forthcoming). Social Inconsistency. Ergo.
Download Slides: social_inconsistency.pptx Background & Further Reading:
Brian Epstein (2015). The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences, pp. 74--87. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
December 03
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Jon Litland (Forthcoming). Collective Abstraction. The Philosophical Review.
Download Handouts: handout_collective_abstraction.pdf |
December 10
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Cian Dorr, Jacob Nebel, and Jake Zuehl (2021). Consequences of Comparability. Philosophical Perspectives 35.
Download Handouts: comparability_structura_handout.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Cian Dorr, Jacob Nebel, and Jake Zuehl (Forthcoming). The Case for Comparability. Noûs. |
December 17
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Ben Holguín (2021). Indicative Conditionals without Iterative Epistemology. Noûs 55.
Background & Further Reading:
Vann McGee (1985). A Counterexample to Modus Ponens. The Journal of Philosophy 82. Kevin Dorst (2019). Abominable KK Failure. Mind 128. |
Spring 2022 Session
Modality: via Zoom
Time: 21:00-23:30 GMT+8, Every Sunday
Time: 21:00-23:30 GMT+8, Every Sunday
March 13
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Alexander Roberts (forthcoming). From Physical to Metaphysical Necessity. Mind.
Download Handout: alexander_roberts__from_physical_to_metaphysical_necessity_-2.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Bacon, Andrew (2018). The Broadest Necessity. Journal of Philosophical Logic 47. Bacon, Andrew & Zeng, Jin (2022). A Theory of Necessities. Journal of Philosophical Logic 51. Roberts, Alexander (2020). Relative Necessity and Propositional Quantification. Journal of Philosophical Logic 49. |
March 20
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M. Oreste Fiocco (2021). There is Nothing to Identity. Synthese.
Download Handout: structura_handout_fiocco.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Duncan, M. (2020). A renewed challenge to anti-criterialism. Erkenntnis 85. Fiocco, M. O. (2019). Each thing is fundamental: against hylomorphism and hierarchical structure. American Philosophical Quarterly 56. Langford, S. (2017). A defense of anti-criterialism. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 47. Merricks, T. (1998). There are no criteria of identity over time. Noûs 32. |
March 27
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Agustín Rayo (2020). On the Open-Endedness of Logical Space. Philosophers' Imprint 20.
Download Handout: on_the_open-endedness_of_logical_space.pdf
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April 10
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Timothy Williamson (forthcoming). Moral Anti-Exceptionalism. In Paul Bloomfield and David Copp (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism.
Download Handout: moral_anti-exceptionalism.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Gideon Rosen (2017). Metaphysical Relations in Metaethics. In Tristram McPherson and David Plunkett (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics. |
April 17
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Vera Flocke (2021). Ontological Expressivism. In J. T. M. Miller (Ed.), The Language of Ontology.
Download Handout: handout-ontological_expressivism.pdf |
April 24
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David Builes (forthcoming). Ontology and Arbitrariness. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Download Handout: ontology_and_arbitrariness.pdf |
May 01
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Yannic Kappes (2020). Explanation by status as empty-base explanation. Synthese 199.
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May 08
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Boris Kment (forthcoming). Russell–Myhill and Grounding. Analysis.
Download Handout: handout_russell–myhill_and_grounding.pdf |
May 15
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Levin Hornischer (2020). Logics of Synonymy. Journal of Philosophical Logic 49.
Download Handout: logics_of_synonymy.pdf |
May 22
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Jeremy Goodman (forthcoming). Grounding Generalizations. Journal of Philosophical Logic.
Download Handout: goodman.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Peter Fritz (2020). On Higher-order Logical Grounds. Analysis 80. Peter Fritz (forthcoming). Ground and Grain. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Jack Woods (2018). Emptying a Paradox of Ground. Journal of Philosophical Logic 47. Adam Lovett (2020). The Puzzles of Ground. Philosophical Studies 177. |
May 29
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Øystein Linnebo and Stewart Shapiro (2019). Actual and Potential Infinity. Noûs, 53.
Download Handout: handout_potential_infinity.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Kit Fine (2006). Relatively Unrestricted Quantification. In Agustín Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano (Eds.), Absolute Generality. Vera Flocke (2021). The Metasemantics of Indefinite Extensibility. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 99. Eric Snyder and Stewart Shapiro (Forthcoming). Groups, Sets, and Paradox. Linguistics and Philosophy. |
Fall 2021 Session
Modality: via Zoom
Time: 21:30-24:00 GMT+8, Every Sunday
Time: 21:30-24:00 GMT+8, Every Sunday
October 03
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Neil Dewar (2019). Sophistication about Symmetries. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 70.
Download Handout: neil_dewar_2019.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Shamik Dasgupta (2021). Symmetry and Superfluous Structure: A Metaphysical Overview. In The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, Eleanor Knox and Alastair Wilson (Eds.). Niels Martens and James Read (2020). Sophistry about Symmetries? Synthese. Thomas William Barrett (2018). What Do Symmetries Tell Us about Structure? Philosophy of Science 85. Andrew Bacon (2018). Tense and Relativity. Noûs 52. |
October 10
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Trevor Teitel (2019). Contingent Existence and the Reduction of Modality to Essence. Mind 128.
Download Handout: “contingent_existence_and_the_reduction_of_modality_to_essence”.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Andreas Ditter (2020). The Reduction of Necessity to Essence. Mind 129. Kit Fine (1994). Essence and modality. Philosophical Perspectives 8. Jonas Werner (forthcoming). Contingent Objects, Contingent Propositions, and Essentialism. Mind. |
October 17
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Timothy Williamson (forthcoming). Modal Epistemology and the Logic of Counterfactuals. In New Perspectives on Epistemic Closure, Duncan Pritchard and Matthew Jope (Eds.).
Download Handout: counterfactuals_and_modal_epistemology.pdf |
October 24
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Matthew Mandelkern (forthcoming). If p, then p! The Journal of Philosophy.
Download Handout: handout.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Vann McGee (1985). A Counterexample to Modus Ponens. The Journal of Philosophy 82. Matthew Mandelkern (2020). Import-export and ‘And’. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 100. Paul Égré and Hans Rott (2021). The Logic of Conditionals. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition). §3.5 "Or-to-if, import-export, simplification of disjunctive antecedents". Rick Nouwen, Adrian Brasoveanu, Jan van Eijck, and Albert Visser (2016). Dynamic Semantics. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition). §3 "Presupposition". |
October 31
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Jared Warren (2021). Infinite Reasoning. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 103.
Download Handout: warren_on_infinite_reasoning.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Jared Warren (2020). Killing Kripkenstein's Monster. Noûs 54. Jared Warren (2020). Shadows of Syntax. Bernd Buldt (2004). On RC 102–43-14. In Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena, Steve Awodey and Carsten Klein (Eds.). Paul Boghossian (forthcoming). Inference, Agency and Responsibility. In Reasoning: Essays on Theoretical and Practical Thinking, Magdalena Balcerak Jackson and Brendan Balcerak Jackson (Eds.). |
November 07
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Background & Further Reading:
Patrick Dieveney (2013). Anything and Everything. Erkenntnis 78. Shaughan Lavine (2006). Something about everything: Universal quantification in the universal sense of universal quantification. In Absolute Generality, Agustín Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano (Eds.). Edward Ferrier (2018). Quantification and Paradox. Doctoral Dissertation. |
November 21
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Mark Textor (2021). ‘The Nature of the Question Demands a Separation’: Frege on Distinguishing between Content and Force. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 99.
Download Handout: content-force_distinction.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Gottleb Frege (1879). Begriffsschrift : Eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens Gottleb Frege (1918). Thought. Gottleb Frege (1919). Negation. All above in The Frege Reader, Michael Beaney (Ed.). Irad Kimhi (2018). Thinking and Being. |
November 28
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Thomas William Barrett (Forthcoming). How to Count Structure. Noûs.
Download Handout: handout-how_to_count_structure.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Thomas William Barrett (2018). What Do Symmetries Tell Us about Structure? Philosophy of Science 85. Thomas William Barrett and Hans Halvorson (2016). Morita Equivalence. The Review of Symbolic Logic 9. |
December 05
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David Builes and Trevor Teitel (2020). A Puzzle about Rates of Change. Philosophical Studies 177.
Kenny Easwaran (2014). Why Physics Uses Second Derivatives. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 65. Download Handout: handout-qichen_yan.pdf
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December 12
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David Mark Kovacs (Forthcoming). An Explanatory Idealist Theory of Grounding. Noûs.
Download Handout: structura_handout.docx Background and Further Reading:
Jaegwon Kim (1988). Explanatory Realism, Causal Realism, and Explanatory Exclusion. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 12. Jonathan Schaffer (2009). On What Grounds What. In Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology, David Manley, David J. Chalmers and Ryan Wasserman (Eds.). Elanor Taylor (2018). Against Explanatory Realism. Philosophical Studies 175. Elanor Taylor (2020). Backing Without Realism. Erkenntnis. Jessica M. Wilson (2014). No Work for a Theory of Grounding. Inquiry 57. |
December 19
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Jared Warren (2020). Ontological Commitment and Ontological Commitments. Philosophical Studies 177.
Download Handout: Note_2021_12_17.pdf Background and Further Reading:
Kit Fine (2001). The Question of Realism. Philosopher’s Imprint 1. Kit Fine (2009). The Question of Ontology. In Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology, David Manley, David J. Chalmers and Ryan Wasserman (Eds.). |
December 26
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Gabriel Uzquiano (2018). Groups: Toward a Theory of Plural Embodiment. The Journal of Philosophy 115.
Download Handout:handout_baiting.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Kit Fine (1999). Things and their Parts. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 23. Katherine Ritchie (2013). What Are Groups? Philosophical Studies, 166. Salvatore Florio and Øystein Linnebo (2021). The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study of Plural Logic. |
Spring 2021 Session
Modality: In person & via VooV Meeting.
Time: 15:00-18:00 GMT+8, Every Sunday.
Place: Room 227, Institute of Foreign Philosophy.
Time: 15:00-18:00 GMT+8, Every Sunday.
Place: Room 227, Institute of Foreign Philosophy.
March 21 |
Introduction. We will use this opportunity to briefly examine several crucial concepts in contemporary metaphysics that figure prominently in our readings this session, as well as to introduce some important journals and resources.
Download Handout: introduction.pdf Download Opening Slides: first_meeting.pdf Suggested Reading:
Theodore Sider (2020). The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science. §1 "Postmodal Metaphysics and Structuralism". Timothy Williamson (2020). What is metaphysics? The British Academy Website Blog. Resources page of STRUCTURA website. |
March 28
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Shamik Dasgupta (2021). How to Be a Relationalist. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 12.
Download Handout: dasgupta.pdf Background & Further Reading:
David Baker (2021). Some Consequences of Physics for the Comparative Metaphysics of Quantity. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 12. Shamik Dasgupta (2013). Absolutism vs Comparativism About Quantity. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 8. Shamik Dasgupta (2015). Substantivalism vs Relationalism About Space in Classical Physics. Philosophy Compass 10. |
April 04
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Andrew Bacon (2019). Is Reality Fundamentally Qualitative? Philosophical Studies 176.
Download Handout: bacon.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Cian Dorr (unpublished). Priorian Nihilism: A Way of Getting Rid of Things. Handout. Shamik Dasgupta (2017). Can We Do Without Fundamental Individuals? Yes. In Current Controversies in Metaphysics, Elizabeth Barnes (Ed.). Jeffrey Russell (2016). Qualitative Grounds. Philosophical Perspectives 30. |
April 11
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Kit Fine (2017). Form. Journal of Philosophy 114.
Download Handout: arbitrary_object_and_structure.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Kit Fine & Neil Tennant (1983). A Defence of Arbitrary Objects. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 57. Kit Fine (1985). Natural Deduction and Arbitrary Objects. Journal of Philosophical Logic 14. Kit Fine (1985). Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects. Kit Fine (1998). Cantorian Abstraction: A Reconstruction and Defense. Journal of Philosophy 95. Leon Horsten (2019). The Metaphysics and Mathematics of Arbitrary Objects. Alasdair Urquhart (2020). Fine on Arbitrary Objects. In Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality: Themes from Kit Fine, Mircea Dumitru (Ed.). |
April 18
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Stephan Krämer (forthcoming). Truthmaker Equivalence. In Themes from Alan Weir, Stephan Leuenberger and Adam Rieger (Eds.).
Download Slides: truthmaker_equivalence.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Francesco Berto and Daniel Nolan (2021). Hyperintensionality. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2021). §3 "Granularity and the Structure of Hyperintensionality". Kit Fine (2016). Angellic Content. Journal of Philosophical Logic 45. |
April 25
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Mark Jago (2020). A short argument for truthmaker maximalism. Analysis 80.
Robert Trueman (forthcoming). Truthmaking, grounding and Fitch’s paradox. Analysis. Mark Jago (forthcoming). Which Fitch? Analysis. Download Handout: fitch’s_paradox_and_truthamking_maximalism.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Joe Salerno (2009). Knowability Noir: 1945-1963. In New Essays on the Knowability Paradox, Joe Salerno (Ed.). Berit Brogaard and Joe Salerno (2019). Fitch’s Paradox of Knowability. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2019). Peter Milne (2005). Not Every Truth Has a Truthmaker. Analysis 65. Peter Milne (2013). Not Every Truth Has a Truthmaker II. Analysis 73. Mark Jago (2012). The Truthmaker Non-Maximalist's Dilemma. Mind 121. Roberto Loss (2020). There are no fundamental facts, Analysis 80. |
May 02
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Theodore Sider (2020). Ground Grounded. Philosophical Studies 177.
Download Handout: ted_sider_“ground_grounded”.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Shamik Dasgupta (2014). The Possibility of Physicalism. Journal of Philosophy 111. Jon Litland (2017). Grounding Ground. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 10. Jon Litland (2020). Meta-Ground. In The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding, Michael Raven (Ed.). Karen Bennett (2017). Making Things Up. §7 "Building Building?". David Kovacs (2020). Four Questions of Iterated Grounding. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 101. |
May 09
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Michael Huemer (2021). Existence Is Evidence of Immortality. Noûs 55.
Download Handout: handout__a_possible_mindmap_.pdf |
May 16
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Shamik Dasgupta (2018). Realism and the Absence of Value. The Philosophical Review 127.
Download Handout : handout-dasgupta_on_realism_and_the_absence_of_value.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Theodore Sider (forthcoming). Dasgupta’s Detonation. Philosophical Perspectives. |
May 23
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Andrew Bacon (2020). Logical Combinatorialism. The Philosophical Review 129.
Download Handout : handout-logical_combinatorialism.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Andrew Bacon (2018). The Broadest Necessity. Journal of Philosophical Logic 47. |
June 6
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Robert Trueman (forthcoming). Idealism and the Identity Theory of Truth. Mind.
Download Handout : idealism_and_identity_theory_handout.pdf |
June 13
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Daniel Deasy (2021). Advanced Temporalizing. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 12.
Download Handout : handout_advanced_temporalizing.pdf Background & Further Reading:
Phillip Bricker (2001). Island universes and the analysis of modality. In Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis. Eli Hirsch (2004). Comments on Theodore Sider’s Four-dimensionalism. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68. |