The MLE Seminar – Hilary ’09

Ryle Room, Wednesdays 2-4pm

Week 1 (21^st January):
Kit Fine, ‘The question of ontology’
http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/1160/ontology.pdf

Week 2 (28^th January):
Brian Weatherson, ‘Can we do without pragmatic encroachment?’
http://brian.weatherson.org/cwdwpe.pdf

Week 3 (4^th February):
Anthony Gillies, ‘On truth-conditions for "if" (but not quite only if)’
http://www.umich.edu/~thony/note-on-if-finalish-preprint.pdf

Week 4 (11^th February):
Cian Dorr, ‘There are no abstract objects’
Available on Weblearn, or in Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, ed. John Hawthorne, Theodore Sider and Dean Zimmerman (Blackwell, 2007).

Week 5 (18^th February):
Tom Kelly, ‘The epistemic significance of disagreement’
http://www.princeton.edu/~tkelly/papers/disfinal.pdf

Week 6 (25^th February):
Jeff King, ‘Tense, modality & semantic values’ (skip Section 3 & appendix)
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/%7Ejeffreck/my_papers/Tense_Modality.pdf

Week 7 (4^th March):
Roger White, ‘Evidential Symmetry and Mushy Credence’
http://www.fitelson.org/few/few_08/white.pdf

Week 8 (11^th March)
Agustin Rayo, ‘Ontological commitment’
http://web.mit.edu/arayo/www/ontcom.pdf

The MLE (metaphysics, language, & epistemology) Seminar will meet on Wednesdays, 2-4pm in the Ryle Room, 10 Merton St. D.Phils, B.Phils, Post-docs, and Faculty 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 (Natalja Deng and Alastair Wilson).

The MLE Seminar has a blog. Each week, we aim to post the handout and a summary of the discussions.