Previous entires: #1, #2. Firstly, if you happen to be in the area, make sure to catch my talk: ‘Why Quantifiers Cannot Carve at the Joints’, at The North Carolina Philosophical Society Meeting with the South Carolina Society for Philosophy, which takes place at Elon University, NC. My talk on the first day (February 24th), [...]
Not really in my area (geographically or philosophically), but I thought that it’s worth promoting (yet another) event bringing together Aristotle and contemporary philosophy — there’s an ever increasing number of these around now. I like to think that my volume is the first of its kind within the current trend (although it doesn’t really [...]
This workshop in Cologne might be of interest to some readers. L A W S & C H A N C E S Workshop in Cologne March 5, 2012 DFG Research Group Causation | Laws | Dispositions | Explanation SPEAKERS Claus Beisbart (University of Dortmund) Barry Loewer (Rutgers University) Alexander Reutlinger (University of Cologne) John [...]
If you’re anywhere near Chapel Hill next Monday, 13th February, make sure to catch my talk at the Philosophy Department! I’ve also confirmed a number of other talks this spring-summer, although some details are yet to be confirmed. Here is a provisional list; there might be one more, but this is already enough to keep [...]
#1 here Time for the second diary entry! Let me start by advertising my talk at the department next Monday, 13th February. It’s at Caldwell Hall, room 213, 1pm; the topic is ‘The Epistemology of Essence’, and you can read about it (as well as download a draft) here. There’s a big basketball game in [...]
There are a number of interesting events in Anna Marmodoro’s ERC funded project at Oxford this spring. This one features John Heil, who has an interesting new book coming out soon… Powerful Qualities: A Workshop with John Heil Organised by the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies project 26 – 27 April 2012 Rainolds Room Corpus [...]
This is a great opportunity for graduate students interested in hot topics in contemporary analytic metaphysics, Hosted by Rutgers University, taking place this May, and featuring some leading names in metaphysics! Details copied from the Metaphysical Mayhem website. Metaphysical Mayhem is back! Rutgers University will be hosting a 5-day summer school for graduate students May [...]
I’ve mentioned my work on the epistemology of essence several times, and I gave a talk with that title at NYU already last spring. Since then I’ve been slowly chipping away at the draft that I had, with the help of a number comments I’ve gotten (thanks a lot for those everyone, I’ll make sure [...]
An interesting conference at my alma mater: Experience, Action and the Metaphysics of Time Durham University, 26th June 2012 Keynote speakers: Robin Le Poidevin (Leeds) Barry Dainton (Liverpool) David Cockburn (University of Wales, Trinity Saint David) The debate between proponents of the A-theory and the B-theory is a familiar one, conducted across a range of [...]
It took me a full month before I got around to writing this first diary entry of my visit to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but I’ll compensate by making it excessively long… I’ve covered the background of my visit in an earlier post, but perhaps a brief recap is in order. [...]
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