The MLE Seminar – Trinity Term ’11

Bostar Hall, University College, Fridays 1.45-3.45pm

Week 1 (6th May):
Jeff Speaks, Facts, Properties, and the Nature of Propositions

Week 2 (13th May):
Elliott Sober, Absence of Evidence and Evidence of Absence -- Evidential Transitivity in Connection with Fossils, Fishing, Fine-Tuning, and Firing Squads

Week 3 (20th May):
David Ripley, Embedding Denial

Week 4 (27th May):
Roger White, You Just Believe That Because. . .

Week 5 (3rd June):
Philippe Schlenker, Presupposition Projection: the New Debate

Week 6 (10th June):
Ofra Magidor and Stephen Kearns, Semantic Sovereignty

Week 7 (17th June):
Sarah Moss, On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals

Week 8 (24th June)
Matti Eklund, The Liar Paradox, Expressibility, Possible Languages

The MLE (metaphysics, language, & epistemology) Seminar will meet on Fridays, 1.45-3.45pm in Bostar Hall, University College.



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D.Phils, B.Phils, Post-docs, and Faculty are encouraged to attend. For further details please contact the organisers (William Lanier and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri).

The MLE Seminar has a (no longer updated) blog.

 
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