Metaphysics (MP)
This reading group on metaphysics meets weekly during the core months of the first semester 2009/10, discussing recent or unpublished papers. Topics of readings include: mereology, grounding, indeterminacy, truthmaking, identity, metaphysics of sex/gender/race, modality, and meta-metaphysics. Unless otherwise specified, sessions take place at the Seminari del Departament LHiFC UB.
Sessions
Mereology: Varzi (forthcoming)
Varzi: ‘Universalism Entails Extensionalism,' forthcoming in Analysis
06 October 2009
11:00
Grounding: Schaffer (2009)
Schaffer: 'On What Grounds What ' in Manley, Chalmers & Wasserman (eds.), Metametaphysics, OUP (2009)
13 October 2009
11:00
No Session (II LOGOS-iJN)
20 October 2009
11:00
Indeterminacy: Barnes & Williams (2010)
Barnes & Williams: 'A Theory of Metaphysical Indeterminacy ', forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (2010)
27 October 2009
11:00
Truthmaking: Cameron (2010)
Cameron: 'Truthmaking for Presentists ' forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (2010)
03 November 2009
11:00
Identity: Hawley (2009)
Hawley: 'Identity and Indiscernibility ,' Mind 118, 101-119 (2009)
10 November 2009
11:15
Sex: Miller (forthcoming)
Miller: 'On the Concept of Sexual Perversion ', forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly.
17 November 2009
11:00
Race: Glasgow (2008)
Glasgow: 'On the Methodology of the Race Debate: Conceptual Analysis and Racial Discourse ', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2):333–358 (2008)
24 November 2009
11:15
No Session (LOGOS Workshop on Fiction)
01 December 2009
11:15
No Session (Bank Holiday)
08 December 2009
11:15
Modality: Williamson (forthcoming)
Williamson: 'Barcan Formulas in Second-Order Modal Logic' forthcoming in Frauchiger & Essler (eds.), Themes from Barcan Marcus
15 December 2009
11:15
Metametaphysics: Chalmers (ms)
Chalmers: 'Verbal Disputes and Philosophical Progress ' unpublished.
22 December 2009
11:15
