The MLE Seminar – Hilary ’07

Bostar Hall, University College, Mon 11am-1pm

 

Week 1 (14th Jan):
Jonathan Schaffer: ‘Quiddistic Knowledge’, available at: http://people.umass.edu/schaffer/papers/Quiddity.pdf

Week 2 (21st Jan):
John Macfarlane: ‘Truth in the garden of forking paths’, available at:
http://johnmacfarlane.net/garden.pdf

Week 3 (28th Jan):
Meeting postponed to 9th week

Week 4 (4th Feb):
John Hawthorne: ‘Craziness and metasemantics’, available at: http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/members/jhawthorne/docs/Craziness.pdf

Week 5 (11th Feb):
Øystein Linnebo & David Nicolas:  ‘Superplurals in English’, available at:
http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/TVjZmUzN/Linnebo-Nicolas-Superplurals.pdf

Week 6 (18th Feb):
Crispin Wright: ‘The perils of dogmatism’, available at: http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/1187/dogmatism.doc

Week 7 (25th Feb):
Delia Graff: ‘Counterparts within Actuality’, available at:  http://www.princeton.edu/~graff/papers/cwa.html

Week 8 (3rd Mar):
Roger White: ‘Puzzles about imprecise credence’ (read puzzle one only), available at:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mle/whiteimprecisecredence.pdf
&
Scott Sturgeon ‘Thick confidence and White’s problem’, available at:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mle/sturgeon-FEW-08.doc

Week 9 (10th Mar):
David Christensen: ‘Epistemic self-respect’, available at:
http://www.uvm.edu/%7Ephildept/Christensen/Respect.pdf

 

The MLE (metaphysics, language, & epistemology) Seminar will meet on Mondays, 11am-1pm, in Bostar Hall, University College. D.Phils, Post-docs, junior Faculty and B.Phils are encouraged to attend.  All readings for the seminar will be available via the MLE seminar website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mle . For further details please contact the organisers (Gail Leckie and Alastair Wilson).

 

 
Current Term | Michaelmas 07