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
Michaelmas Term 2021 - Term Card
Past Terms
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Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt (MIT) |
Thing Causation |
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Alex Moran (Oxford) |
Some Thoughts on (Not Surviving) Fission |
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Verónica Gómez Sánchez (ACU) |
Naturalness by Law |
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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' |