The MLE Seminar – Trinity ’08

Archway Seminar Room, Magdalen College, Wed 2-4pm

Week 1 (23^rd April):
No meeting

Week 2 (30^th April):
Jonathan Schaffer: ‘Deterministic Chance’, available at: http://people.umass.edu/schaffer/papers/DeterministicChance.pdf

Week 3 (7^th May):
Kai von Fintel and Sabine Iatridou: ‘What to do if you want to go to Harlem’, available at: http://mit.edu/fintel/www/harlem-rutgers.pdf

Week 4 (14^th May):
Cian Dorr: ‘De re a priori Knowledge’, available at: http://www.pitt.edu/~csd6/papers/DeReAPriori.pdf

Week 5 (21^st May):
Timothy Williamson: ‘Necessary Existents’, available at: http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/1326/rip.pdf

Week 6 (28^th May):
John Hawthorne and Jason Stanley: ‘Knowledge and Action’, available at: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/%7Ejasoncs/knowledgeactionfinal.pdf

Week 7 (4^th June):
Alan Hájek: ‘The Cable Guy Paradox’, available at: http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/people-defaults/alanh/papers/cable_guy_paradox.pdf

Week 8 (11^th June)
Katherine Hawley: extract from ‘How Things Persist’, available on Weblearn.

 

The MLE (metaphysics, language, & epistemology) Seminar will meet on Wednesdays, 2-4pm in the Archway Seminar Room, Magdalen College. 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 (Gail Leckie and Alastair Wilson).