Reading Groups

Philosophy and Religion Reading Group

September 10, 2009Work in Progress
Substance Dualism/Property Dualism (Zimmerman)
September 24, 2009Rereading Pike’s “Omniscience and Voluntary Action”
(Tognazzini, Fischer, Todd)
October 8, 2009Work in Progress
Ontological Commitment and Ontological Change (Sullivan)
October 22, 2009The Place of Chance in a World Sustained by God
(van Inwagen)


Philosophy of Science Reading Group

Meetings are in the graduate lounge. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for more details.

October 21, 2009
8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
"Individuals: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics" by Shamik Dasgupta Shamik is tentatively planning to come up from Princeton to join us for the discussion.
October 28, 2009
8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Carl Hempel, "Studies in the Logic of Explanation"
November 4, 2009
 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Tim Maudlin, "Buckets of Water and Waves of Space"
November 11, 2009
 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
 Barry Loewer, "Why is there Anything but Physics?" and "Why there is Anything but Physics."
November 18, 2009
8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Barry Loewer, work in progress.  Barry will be in attendance
November 25, 2009 No Meeting (Thanksgiving)
December 2, 2009
7:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Talk by Toby Handfield in Seminar Room
 "Everettian Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of
Chance"
NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION AND TIME]


Meta-Ethics Reading Group

Meetings are held in the seminar room on Mondays from 5-7
Contact Nick Beckstead ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) for more information

 

November 16, 2009Andy Egan's Paper "Secondary Qualities and Self-Location"
Andy Egan will Present