Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group

The Metaphysics Work in Progress Seminar was a friendly and constructive group for discussing ongoing work in metaphysics. 

Note that from Michaelmas 2022, the Oxford Epistemology Group and Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group merged to form the Metaphysics and Epistemology Group. Please see the new group's entry for more.


Metaphysics Work-in-Progress convenors: Alex Kaiserman and Nick Jones

Trinity Term 2022 - Term Card

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, TT22)

03 May 2022
Umut Baysan | 'Emergent Social Kinds: Weak and Strong'
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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 4, TT22)

17 May 2022
Kabir Bakshi | 'Eddy Chen's Fundamental Nomic Vagueness'
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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Thursday - Week 5, TT22)

26 May 2022
Stephen Yablo | 'Grue and True'
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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 8, TT22)

14 June 2022
Lara Scheibli | 'Ásta, 'Categorical Injustice''

Michaelmas Term 2021 - Term Card

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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, MT21)

19 October 2021
Elselijn Kingma | Oh no, Tibbles is Pregnant! Nesting and a Modal Account of Maximality
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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 4, MT21)

02 November 2021
Alex Kaiserman | Oxford | Daniel Kodsi | Oxford | Causal Contextualism and the Proportionality Puzzle
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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 6, MT21)

16 November 2021
Nadine Elzein | Warwick | Time Travel and Failed Assassinations: From Baby Suzy to Fidel Castro
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Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 8, MT21)

30 November 2021
Jessica Leech | KCL | Persistence and Relative Criterialism

Past Terms

Week 2 (4 May)

Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt (MIT)

Thing Causation

Week 4 (18 May)

Alex Moran (Oxford)

Some Thoughts on (Not Surviving) Fission

Week 6 (1 June)

Verónica Gómez Sánchez (ACU)

Naturalness by Law 

Week 8 (15 June)

Salvatore Florio (Birmingham) and Nicholas K Jones (Oxford)

Two Conceptions of Absolute Generality

 

Week 2 (26th January)

Barbara Vetter (Berlin)

'Dispositionalism and the problem of necessary masks'
Week 4 (9th February)

Oliver Pooley (Oxford)

'B-Theoretic Accounts of Passage'
Week 6 (23rd February)

Annina Loets (Berlin)

'Aspects and the Indiscernibility of Identicals'
Week 8 (9th March)

Alex Roberts (Oxford)

TBA

 

Week 2 (20th October)             

Mahrad Almotahari (Edinburgh)

'The Reformation of Realism'
Week 4 (3rd November)

Michael Townsen Hicks and Alastair Wilson

'Chance and Explanation'
Week 6 (17th November)

Fatema Amijee (UBC)

'Why Inquiry Commits Us to the Principle of Sufficient Reason'
Week 8 (1st December)

Paul Audi (Rochester)

'Persistence and Experience - A Plea for Temporally Extended Endurers'