Week 1 (10th Oct):
John Hawthorne: ‘Causal Structuralism’, in his Metaphysical Essays, 2006. Available at:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111%2F0029-4624.35.s15.16
Week 2 (17th Oct):
Josh Parsons: ‘Assessment-Contextual Indexicals’, manuscript, available at:
http://www.otago.ac.nz/philosophy/Staff/JoshParsons/papers/tense.pdf
Week 3 (24th Oct):
Daniel Nolan & Carrie Jenkins: ‘Backwards Explanation’, manuscript, available at:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/Jenkins/BackwardsExplanation.pdf
Week 4 (31st Oct):
Jonathan Schaffer: ‘Two Conceptions of Sparse Properties’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 85, 2004, pp. 92-102, available at:
http://people.umass.edu/schaffer/papers/Sparse.pdf
Week 5 (7th Nov):
Delia Graff Fara: ‘Descriptions as Predicates’, Philosophical Studies, Volume 102:1, 2001, pp. 1–42, available at:
http://www.princeton.edu/~graff/papers/psdescriptions.html
Week 6 (14th Nov):
Frank Arntzenius: ‘Credence and Symmetry’, manuscript, available at: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mle/credenceandsymmetry.pdf
Week 7 (21st Nov):
Cian Dorr: ‘What we disagree about when we disagree about ontology’, in Fictionalism in Metaphysics, ed. Kalderon, 2005 and available at: http://www.pitt.edu/~csd6/papers/Ontology.pdf
Week 8 (28th Nov):
Timothy Williamson: ‘Why epistemology can’t be operationalized’, to appear in Epistemology: New Philosophical Essays, ed. Q. Smith and available at:
http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/faculty/members/docs/operationalize.pdf
The MLE (metaphysics, language, & epistemology) Seminar will meet on Wednesdays, 3-5pm, in Bostar Hall, University College (ask the porter for directions). D.Phils, Post-docs, junior Faculty and B.Phils are encouraged to attend. This term, we are pleased to have Frank Arntzenius as the attending faculty member. The format is a 20 minute presentation followed by group discussion. Everyone is expected to read the paper in advance of the seminar. For further details or if you are interested in giving a presentation please contact the organisers at mle@philosophy.ox.ac.uk